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“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.”

Needs Feels Should Ideas Enough Names Women Answers Doors Listening Calling Judgment Solutions Offering Assistance

Author:Amy Dickinson

“When you're president, the Democrats got to feel good when they walk in the door if you're a Republican; if you're a Democrat, the Republican has to feel like you're listening. And you should be listening.”

Ifs Feels Should President Walks Doors Like You Listening Republican Democrat Feel Good

Author:William J. Clinton

“There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we can know are those untrustworthy glimpses--that and rumour. The prattle. The dead gossip: it is the reverberation of that gossip against the surface tension of death that the better mediums hear. It is like listening to whispered secrets through a toilet door. It is a crude and muffled susurrus.”

Knows Death Secret Knowing Doors Listening Surface Mediums Tension Gossip Glimpse Toilets Crude Rumours Untrustworthy Membranes Reverberation

Author:China Mieville

“A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour, Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile, Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dog Sleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade. Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws, No more sits listening by his den, but steals Abroad, in safety, to the clover-field, And crops its juicy-blossoms.”

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Author:William C. Bryant

“Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself”

Made Voice Decision Results Greater Doors Listening Ego Checks Guts Right Decision Wrong Decision

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.”

People Ifs I Can Speak Imagine Doors Listening Gossip Tiresome

Book:Streaks of life

Source: Streaks of life

“In prayer one must hold fast and never let go, because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you, then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door, go back in by the other.”

Ifs Giving Seems Loses Prayer Doors Cry Listening Letting Go Giving Up Driven Hold Fast Never Let Go

Author:Jane Frances de Chantal

“On my face extended flat I was walloped with a cat For listening at the key-hole of the door.”

Faces Doors Keys Listening Discipline Cat Holes Flats

Author:W. S. Gilbert

“The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.”

“I always compare reading anything on the Internet to listening at doors. If you don't want to hear anything bad about yourself, you should never do it.”

Ifs Want Should Reading Doors Listening Internet Compare About Yourself

Author:Mark Gatiss

“Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond.”

Character Doors Ready Keys Listening Concentration Closing

Author:Jean Stapleton

“I had ideas about music and sound and listening and time and so on that I wanted to pursue as an individual, and by doing that book, Brian [Eno] opened the door, and he decided to do a record based loosely on the book.”

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Author:David Toop

“It might be helping to explore a story visually by going to see a museum exhibit that's relevant to something that somebody's reading, or going to see a show or listening to a piece of music or cooking a meal that's in one of the stories, something practical, something kinesthetic that draws the reader in and helps them to experience the story for themselves. Those are all ways I think we can kind of come in the back door and help kids find the joy, as opposed to the chore or responsibility, of reading.”

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Author:Emma Walton Hamilton

“I'm definitely not a laptop/midi/abelton guy. But there is a lot of music I like. I really like Bach organ music. I really like Chopin piano music. I really like Wendy Carlo's electronic music. I really like Miles Davis and John Mclaughlin jazz style. So I'm not only an old-school rocker, but I have to admit that I'm going to be listening to The Doors, Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop, David Bowie and Bob Dylan many times a week.”

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Author:Gordon Raphael

“Stomp stomp. Whirr. Pleased to be of service. Shut up. Thank you. Stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. Thank you for making a simple door very happy. Hope your diodes rot. Thank you. Have a nice day. Stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. It is my pleasure to open for you... Zark off. ...and my satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done. I said zark off. Thank you for listening to this message.”

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Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts