1102 – “When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.”

-anonymous

1045 – “Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that other love to speak to you.”

-anonymous

669 – “I’m watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don’t deserve them. Her warm memories. I’d like to paint them over the bare plaster walls of my soul, but everything I paint seems to peel.”

–R in Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies

601 – “Never miss a good chance to shut up.”

–Will Rogers [Attributed]

269 – “Experiments are not about discovery but about listening and translating the knowledge of other beings.”

–Robin Wall Kimmerer

199 – “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, and honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

–Leo Buscaglia