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“The voice of wisdom is inherent within us and willing to guide us when we stop to listen. Of course, there are times when we feel we've been still as stone, and the still, small voice is still too quiet to hear. When this happens, the challenge is to practice quieting your mind anyway. Stopping and asking, quieting and listening, trusting and waiting. Waiting is difficult but worth the effort because a quiet, uncluttered mind is a natural antenna for whispers of wisdom from within.”

Source: The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart

“The biggest challenge in working together is simply listening.”

Together Challenges Listening Working Together

Author:Colette Freedman

“[The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there a way to get rid of all those hours spent listening to bad call-centre music? Do policemen, academics, teachers and doctors really need to spend half their time filling in forms? Or can we imagine another world?”

World Way Needs Should Form Hours Challenges Half Accepting Teacher Imagine Listening Offers Doctors Inevitable Centre Bureaucracy Filling Utopia Policemen Another World Filling In

Author:Gillian Tett

“The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.”

Art Earth Form Challenges Practice Listening Mysterious Luminous

Book:Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

“Dialogue is a space where we may see the assumptions which lay beneath the surface of our thoughts, assumptions which drive us, assumptions around which we build organizations, create economies, form nations and religions. These assumptions become habitual, mental habits that drive us, confuse us and prevent our responding intelligently to the challenges we face every day.”

“I enjoy the challenge of taking something which was not meant for the piano, distilling its essence and writing or improvising it for/at the piano, but having the listener forget that he or she is listening to a piano.”

Writing Enjoy Challenges Forget Listening Essence Piano Listeners Improvising

Author:Michael Hersch

“When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew that nobody was listening at the time and that it wouldn't hurt to challenge myself and get weirder and see if I could alienate more people”

People Ifs Writing Firsts Kind Song Challenges Hurt Listening If I Could

Author:Colin Meloy

“Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time?”

Want Easy Challenges Listening Conversation Dinner Good Conversation

Author:Hilton Als

“The challenge is to just focus on what's actually happening, focus on the people who get it, and focus on the people who are listening.”

People Challenges Focus Listening Happenings

Author:Amanda Palmer

“Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does. Having tried this for several months, however, I can report from the trenches that, for me, immersive listening is as intellectually challenging, stimulating, and rewarding as immersive reading.”

People Way Doe I Can Reading Literature Challenges Listening Months Reports Literacy Trenches

Author:Tom Peters

“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”