[Vision2020] Installment #51 - Listening

[Jeffh]

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>     Listening:
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>     ... is to hear something with thoughtful attention.
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Ponderables:

> I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening 
> carefully. Most people never listen.
> Ernest Hemingway Novelist, Nobel Prize Winner  (1899-1961
> Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
> Dr. Joyce [Diane Bauer] Brothers Psychologist, Author  (born 1929
> The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to 
> listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give 
> each other is our attention...A loving silence often has far more 
> power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
> Rachel Naomi Remen
> The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being 
> said.
> Peter F. Drucker Professor, Writer, Management Consultant  (1909-2005
> To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no 
> true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, 
> unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.
> Jessamyn West Author  (1902-1984




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