Quoted in The Grove:
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.
~H Jackson Brown, Jr
One way to meet new people is to listen more carefully to the people you see every day.
~Robert Brault
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
~Joyce Brothers
EndQuote:
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
~Wilson Mizner
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Exercise Prompt for 03/08/20: courage
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I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying.
~Charles C Finn
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Posted from the Grove
On Writing:
Naked, Drunk, and Very Tired (10 Weird life-style hacks used by creative geniuses)
https://forge.medium.com/i-tried-10-extreme-creativity-hacks-cc17665702b7
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People don’t listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.
~Stephen Covey
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.
~Mignon McLaughlin
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Video:
~Vimeo: BookFace Books alive! (1:19)
https://vimeo.com/391933063
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
~Harper Lee
I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
~Robert McCloskey
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Music:
~DHT: feat. Edmee Listen To Your Heart (4:38)
~Sylvie Simmons: Rhythm of the Rain (2:33)
~Doobie Brothers: Listen to the Music (5:05)
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No one is listening until you fart.
~Author Unknown
My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that’s what she said.
~Author Unknown
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Not all my day can I spend in listening, for I, too, must evolve, ere the night comes on.
~Muriel Strode
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man’s observation, not overturning it.
~Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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@Writers Platform
Exercise Prompt: listen
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~BarTalk:
christmas story
schedule free
holiday treat
hamper full
notepad clean
laundromat open
warm and empty
a random meet
something between
chance and serendipity
fifty dollars
those clean sheets
and you can love me
a plaintive plea in
plain jane’s gravelly voice
this for that
a desperate choice
tit for tat
please
or let me read
what you wrote
I’m hungry for words
a bite to eat and company
too good for bed
we talked instead
ate a lot
drank bottled red
we read aloud
and better yet
we listened
and in the morning
parted
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noise then silence
a friendless silence
then the rains return
pretending to be music
a dog in the distance
barks to protect the tv inside
the children preparing for bed
a Harley in the distance
growling like a dog nearby
warding off boredom with danger
a car slishing thru wet streets
has a destination
keeps the reason secret
the cloud muffled stars
fill the emptiness between them
with the whisper of neutrinos
and all is gossip
with no one to listen
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Prelude
Listen
And the silence rages with memory
Shame and moments of courage vie
Transcend the victor’s territory
Where success may need a lie
Nothing hides in the silent apostrophe
Where we know judgment before we die
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Summoned
Listen to it
The smell of delicious calling
The farewell cry of spices fallen
Spirits of shredded bodies growing
In my garden
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Old Bone Spurs
Listen to the venom of the fallen reign
Telling me just what a fool he’s been
Ignored the science left the Dow in pain
So let’s be free of him again
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5-7-5 x 2
history has a voice
listen to the tale it tells
else it warns too late
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history has a tail
heed the body lest it pass
call it consequence
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If I had it to do again, I’d ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.
~Robert Brault
Silent and listen are spelled with the same letters.
~Author unknown
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Harvested from: AZQuotes.com, QuoteGarden.com
Curated by: Wordgrove
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