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“In listening lies great power. Many are expert in speaking (while everyone hears), adept in analyzing in bits and pieces, very prompt in commenting, and always ready to stamp judgement of 'right' or 'wrong'. Very few are skilled in listening, first, with the ears and, then, with the heart. Those who do hold true, sustainable, and great power.”

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Author:Ufuoma Apoki
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“During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.”

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Book:Wealth of Words
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“[...] Poți parcurge o viață întreagă și să nu înțelegi mai nimic despre cum funcționează oamenii și emoțiile. << [...] Avem nevoie să înțelegem emoțiile, fiindcă neînțelegându-le, ne facem rău și nouă și îi rănim și pe alții. Uită-te în jurul tău și vei înțelege ușor ceea ce Austin Kleon a zis mai bine decât eu aș putea spune vreodată: "Atunci când oamenii dau sfaturi de fapt ceea ce fac e să-și vorbească lor, cei din trecut." [...] Dacă ar fi să rezum și să simplific lucruri care, în esență, sunt nesimplificabile, aș spune că atunci când oamenii se deschid în fața noastră și încearcă să creeze o conexiune cu noi, să îi ascultăm contează mai mult decât a încerca să îi ajutăm. De fapt, pentru mulți dintre noi, a ne înfrâna reflexul de a încerca să îi ajutăm prin cuvinte poate să le facă mult mai bine decât am putea crede vreodată. Dacă am învățat ceva în miile de ore de lucrat cu oamenii, am învățat că suntem, ca specie, mult mai plini de resurse decât credem. Avem o capacitate incredibilă de a ne vindeca, de a ne rezolva problemele și de a gestiona perioadele grele. Iar atunci când nu suntem antrenați în a-i ajuta pe alții (sau chiar atunci când suntem), cel mai bun lucru pe care îl putem face pentru ei este să le dăm spațiu să vorbească, să îi ascultăm fără să îi facem să se simtă judecați, etichetați, fără să îi întrerupem cu părerile noastre despre viețile lor. Și, cel mult, să le comunicăm că i-am ascultat.”

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Book:Acum, aici, contezi
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“A “smirt” guy once said, if you don't read books you have no advantage over those who can't read. Well, I can't even spell “smirt”, and I say, read all you like - if you don't have the basic capacity to listen, you have no advantage over the animal.”

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Book:Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
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“Dr. Bone Specialist came in, made me stand up and hobble across the room, checked my reflexes, and then made me lie down on the table. He bent my right knee this way and that, up and down, all the way out to the side and in. Then he did the same with my left leg. He ordered X rays then started to leave the room. I panicked. I MUST GET DRUGS. "What can I take for the pain?" I asked him before he got out the door. "You can take some over the counter ibuprofen," he suggested. "But I wouldn't take more than nine a day." I choked. Nine a day? I'd been popping forty. Nine a day? Like hell. I couldn't even go to the bathroom on my own, I hadn't slept in three weeks, and my normally sunny cheery disposition had turned into that of a very rabid dog. If I didn't get good drugs and get them now, it was straight to Shooter's World and then Walgreens pharmacy for me. "I don't think you understand," I explained. "I can't go to work. I have spent the last four days with my mother who is addicted to QVC, watching jewelry shows, doll shows and make-up shows. I almost ordered a beef-jerky maker! Give me something, or I'm going to use your calf muscles to make the first batch!" Without further ado, he hastily scribbled out a prescription for some codeine and was gone. I was happy. My mother, however, had lost the ability to speak.”

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Book:The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life
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“When we talk about cultivating a nonjudgemental, agendaless space between, we might easily believe this means we are passively present. Quite the contrary. We are dynamically awake in the midst of the inner stillness and receptivity, attending to and following what is emerging in our people.”

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Book:The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
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“[O]ften one listens and hears nothing, if it is a piece of music at all complicated to which one is listening for the first time. And yet when, later on, this sonata had been played over to me two or three times I found that I knew it quite well. And so it is not wrong to speak of hearing a thing for the first time. If one had indeed, as one supposes, received no impression from the first hearing, the second, the third would be equally ‘first hearings’ and there would be no reason why one should understand it any better after the tenth. Probably what is wanting, the first time, is not comprehension but memory. For our memory, compared to the complexity of the impressions which it has to face while we are listening, is infinitesimal, as brief as the memory of a man who in his sleep thinks of a thousand things and at once forgets them, or as that of a man in his second childhood who cannot recall, a minute afterwards, what one has just been saying to him. Of these multiple impressions our memory is not capable of furnishing us with an immediate picture. But that picture gradually takes shape, and, with regard to works which we have heard more than once, we are like the schoolboy who has read several times over before going to sleep a lesson which he supposed himself not to know, and finds that he can repeat it by heart next morning. It was only that I had not, until then, heard a note of the sonata, whereas Swann and his wife could make out a distinct phrase that was as far beyond the range of my perception as a name which one endeavours to recall and in place of which one discovers only a void, a void from which, an hour later, when one is not thinking about them, will spring of their own accord, in one continuous flight, the syllables that one has solicited in vain. And not only does one not seize at once and retain an impression of works that are really great, but even in the content of any such work...it is the least valuable parts that one at first perceives.”

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Book:Within A Budding Grove, Part 1
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“The cane is just not going to cut it. I shared with some of my colleagues that these brothers live in neighborhoods where they are getting whapped with a piece of stick all night, stabbed with knives, and pegged with screwdrivers that have been sharpened down, and they are leaking blood. When you come to a fella without even interviewing him, without sitting him down to find out why you did what you did, your only interest is caning him, because you are burned out and frustrated yourself. You say to him, ‘Bend over, you are getting six.’ And the boy grits his teeth, skin up his face, takes those six cuts, and he is gone. But have you really been effective? Caning him is no big deal, because he’s probably ducking bullets at night. He has a lot more things on his mind than that. On the other hand, we can further send our delinquent students into damnation by telling them they are no body and all we want to do is punish, punish, punish. Here at R.M. Bailey, we have been trying a lot of different things. But at the end of the day, nothing that we do is better than the voice itself. Nothing is better than talking to the child, listening, developing trust, developing a friendship. Feel free to come to me anytime if something is bothering you, because I was your age once before. Charles chuck Mackey, former vice principal and coach of the R. M. Bailey Pacers school.”

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Book:The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
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“Not everyone with a problem needs you to solve it. Sometimes all a person needs is to feel like they've been heard. Listening without judging can be more effective than injecting your opinions or trying to solve a problem that doesn't have an easy answer.”

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Book:Lessons Learned from The Path Less Traveled Volume 1: Get motivated & overcome obstacles with courage, confidence & self-discipline
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“Whilst people have answered questions, I have only heard my own voice thinking of the next question.”

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Book:The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
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“I was so sure that I knew what they needed and what I wanted to sell them that I never stopped long enough to find out what it was they wanted to buy.”

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Book:The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
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“Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare.”

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Book:The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
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“Everything would have been for nothing just because I simply didn’t listen.”

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Book:The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
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“Finding happiness by delivering it.”

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Book:The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
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“You’ve got to be driven to become successful.”

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Book:The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
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“As you interact with people, you certainly want to pay attention to the factual content of the conversation. But don't ignore the emotional content. Sometimes you can learn more about what's really going on by reading between the lines.”

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Book:The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow
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