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“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention...A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.” —Rachel Naomi Remen “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” —Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), novelist, Nobel Prize winner “Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.” —Dr. Joyce Brothers (b. 1929), psychologist, author “Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.” —Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger (1893-1990), psychiatrist “The first duty of love is to listen.” —Paul Tillich (1886-1965), theologian, philosopher “Listen not merely to what is said but to the tone of voice in which it is said.” —Chinese proverb “Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.” —Oriana Fallaci (b. 1930), author “Listening to people keeps them entertained.” —Mason Cooley (1927-2002), aphorist “Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it's an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.” —Eudora Welty (1909 - 2001), writer “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” —James Baldwin (1924-1987), author “Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.” —Lewis Thomas (b. 1913), physician, educator “Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we…sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.” —George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819-1880), novelist, editor
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