“In the name of friendship you should make sure your door is always open to listen. Don't feel you need to provide unsolicited possible solutions, answers or even ideas. Listening without judgment and offering assistance when asked should be enough. That's friendship's high calling.” NeedsFeelsShouldIdeasEnoughNamesWomenAnswersDoorsListeningCallingJudgmentSolutionsOfferingAssistance Author:Amy Dickinson
“I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex sentences or big words, hence my famous minimally expressive style - all the "gees" and laconic answers to interviewers. Most of all, I have developed listening as an art form.” FeelsArtBigsFormLanguageAnswersStyleListeningComplexesSentencesEnglish LanguageExpressiveInterviewersLaconic Author:Andy Warhol
“Curiosity and listening [are the principles to an excellent interview]. I never go into an interview with a dedicated list of questions in which I will not deviate. You must be curious about the subject and listen to his answer and ask the next question off that rather than the next question on your list.” NextAsksAnswersPrinciplesSubjectsListeningCuriosityListsCuriousExcellentInterviewsDedicatedDeviate Author:Michael Kay
“Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud-and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word. But in the night of Death Hope sees a star and listening Love can hear the rustling of a wing.” LooksTwoLife IsNightStarsAnswersCryListeningColdEternityWingsStriveLipsVainHeightEchoesBarrenVoicelessWailing Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist] Johnny Ramone, these intense tutorials staying up late and listening to the music he grew up on, and picking up what's a great song and what makes a great song. He was all about lists and dissecting songs, like what's a better song by Cheap Trick: "No Surrender" or "Dream Police"? Sometimes you'd be surprised by the answer. It was an interesting dichotomy between hanging out with the godfather of punk rock and starting to play the ukulele. They came together.” SometimesPlayDreamTogetherSongAnswersInterestingRocksListeningGrewConversationLateGrew UpPoliceStartingListsSurrenderTricksIntenseStayingHanging OutPunkGuitaristPunk RockDichotomyUkuleleRamonesDissectingTutorial Author:Eddie Vedder
“They [candidates] say, "I don't want to say anything controversial." And so nobody covers them. Then they blame the journalists, saying "Why don't they write down what I said?" In congressional races, 90 percent of the time the answer is, "Because you are boring and you don't have anything that makes me interested in listening to you. Why the heck should somebody write it down? There's nothing here worth hearing."” WantShouldWritingSaidAnswersRaceListeningPercentBlameBoringHearingJournalistCandidatesSay AnythingControversial Author:Roger Ailes
“Anyone who ever studied mankind by listening to them was self-deluded. The first thing they should have done was to answer the question, "Can they report to you correctly on their behavior?" And the answer is, "No, the poor bastards cannot."” ShouldFirstsSelfDoneAnswersPoorMankindListeningBehaviorShould HaveReportsDeluded Author:Bill Mollison
“You have to begin by posing questions to your unconscious mind, and then listening very carefully for the answers. If you pose the right kinds of questions, and listen well, you can begin to tap into the power of your unconscious mind.” IfsMindWellsKindAnswersListeningUnconsciousUnconscious MindPosing Author:Nick Morgan
“…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.” KnowsWayDoneCoursesLanguageWaitingAnswersRoomsListeningOfficeWasteStandingTheaterTrainBoxesSpendingSeatsBuyingChairsSundayAfternoonRoutesLecturesConvenientDentistUneasyBox OfficeBalconiesWaiting RoomsQueriesSunday AfternoonsLining Up Book:The Plague Source: The Plague