“Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.” SpeakSocialVirtueTalentListeningConversationProportion Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater
“You go through high school and college the same way: never listening to your coaches because you're the best. But when you get to the pros, all that stops because everybody there has talent.” WaySchoolTalentCollegeListeningHigh SchoolCoachesYou Re The Best Author:Tom Brady
“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.” WorldWayMindFirstsMeanWholeBodyFacesMotherSongSoundVisionDoorsHeardAchieveRocksTalentCarChangedListeningShotsFirst TimePopsIntellectYour BodySingersWhole WorldBrokeLimitationRock N RollBobNew WaysDylanSnaresPop Song Author:Bruce Springsteen
“Listening and talking to my teammates has helped me learn the NBA game. I know that talent can only take you so far.” KnowsGamesTalkingTalentListeningNbaTeammate Author:Paul Pierce
“Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. … It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.” PeopleWorldKindHas BeensArtArtistVoiceBornAudienceTalentListeningAppreciateWitnessPrivilegedGreat ArtSpectatorsGallerySopranos Author:Ann Patchett
“And if someone felt that his life had been an utter failure, and that he himself was only one among millions of wholly unimportant people who could be replaced as easily as broken windowpanes, he would go and pour out his heart to Momo. And, even as he spoke, he would come to realize by some mysterious means that he was absolutely wrong: that there was only one person like himself in the whole world, and that, consequently, he mattered to the world in his own particular way. Such was Momo's talent for listening.” PeopleIfsWorldWayHeartMeanPersonsWholeFeltRealizingMillionsTalentParticularBrokenListeningWhole WorldMysteriousSpokesReplacedUnimportantWindowpane Author:Michael Ende