The older I grow the more I listen to people who don’t talk much.
– Germain G. Glien
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- When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. — Ernest Hemingway
- Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours. – Benjamin Disraeli
- Lots of people talk to animals…. Not very many listen, though…. That’s the problem. – Benjamin Hoff
- When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people. – Abraham Joshua Heschel
- People are less quick to applaud you as you grow older. Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there. – Sloane Crosley
- Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don’t listen, and if one plays bad music people don’t talk. – Oscar Wilde
- They never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation. – Jerome K. Jerome
- I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in fifty years what my father taught by example in one week. – Mario Cuomo
- I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. – Mario Cuomo
- I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. – Ernest Hemingway