"He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him."

Listening, Ego, Attention, Communication

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"He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him."

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"A fool tries to shut others' mouth instead of listens to his own heart."

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"There comes a time in life that all you need is just someone to listen to you without judging or telling you what you should have done and should do, but simply just listening to you."

Bernard Kelvin Clive, Ghanaian Author

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"I've never listened to music lying down. Listening's reading if you close your eyes.Music's a wood you walk through."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"Listening is one thing; however, ACTIVE listening is quite another. The first is a passive act which does not require great involvement, whereas, the latter is a consciously aware and deliberately focused effort to actively participate in the conversation."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"The process of attentive listening makes the other person feel important, valued, and heard. For Nick, listening was, and still is, love. I've never forgotten that precious moment-and the lesson!"

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"She couldn't have told you whether it was because she was afraid, or because such a voice in the darkness seemed of necessity a boon; but she listened to him as she had never listened before; his words dropped deep into her soul."

Henry James, American Writer

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"I think a lot of it had to do with, you know, I was always a daddy's girl. I was always wanting to please him, and I think he was pleased when he'd walk past my room and I was listening to those records."

Lee Ann Womack, American Musician

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"Active listening requires being fully present and engaged in the moment."

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"You can't fake listening. It shows."

Raquel Welch, American Actress

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"And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves."

Marianne Williamson, American Author

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"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."

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"No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe."

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"Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher."

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"Honor wears different coats to different eyes."

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"Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions."

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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

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"Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis."

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"He believed interim reforms were necessary in order to fix the worker for his destiny."

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