Quotes About Listening

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. 

 Epictetus

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. 

Winston Churchill

You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them. 

Robert Brault 

Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker. 

Isaiah Berlin

Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway. 

Author Unknown

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. 

Peter F. Drucker

Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem. 

Benjamin Hoff

Quotes About Life

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.

Lillian Dickson

You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth. 

Charles Johnson 

We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse. 

Author Unknown

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. 

Quentin Crisp 

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. 

Author Unknown

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. 

 Hans Christian Andersen 

Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant. 

Antonio Porchia

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.

Richard Bach

Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow. 

Terri Guillemets 

 Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow. 

Terri Guillemets