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As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

—Po Bronson

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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

—Plutarch

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It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

—Margaret Cho

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A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

—Katharine Whitehorn

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Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

—Hugh Elliott

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Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

—Frank Tyger

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Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

—Dorothy Sarnoff

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There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

—Albert Guinon

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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.

—Plato

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Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.

—Oprah Winfrey

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What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

—M. C. Escher

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There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

—James Thurber

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In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

—Aaron Rose

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

—Oprah Winfrey

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