There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.
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Roy T. Bennett
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, alistening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, allof which have the potential to turn a life around.
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Leo Buscaglia
The more you talk about them, the more important they will feel. The more you listen to them, the more important you will make them feel.
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Roy T. Bennett
The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.
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Alfred Brendel
To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.
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Amit Kalantri
More Quotes By Doris Lessing
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
Listen Anna, if we don’t believe the things we put on our agendas will come true for us, then there’s no hope for us. We’re going to be saved by what we seriously put on our agendas.
Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
