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To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

You confuse not speaking with not listening.

Everybody hears, but few listen.

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

"You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen - not just money, but respect.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.

And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

Listening is a sign of respect.

The best thing anybody ever told me about acting - and I think it's probably true for life, generally - is listen. You've really got to watch, and you've really got to listen. Not see and hear.

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.

Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

You can observe a lot by watching.

For the next week, try the best you can to pay attention to sounds. You will start hearing all these sounds coming in. Once you let them in, you've already done the first and most critical thing, you've honored that information by including it. And by doing that, you've actually changed the world.