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I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.
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I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.
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If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.
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In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.
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In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.
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Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.
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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
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Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
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Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.
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Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention.
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Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
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Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.
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Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.
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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.
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Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.
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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
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Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking.
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