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

-- Epictetus

#Communication Quotes #Two Quotes #Listening Quotes

“Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And, as in any conversation, it helps to listen with an open mind, so you can be led somewhere unexpected. The more you leave assumptions at home, I've found, the better you can hear whatever it is that a destination is trying to say to you.”

Source : "10 things every traveler should do" by Pico Iyer, www.cnn.com. June 25, 2009.
“We all agree that manufacturers have a right to ensure that fake goods are not marketed in their names and that their own goods are not marketed under fake names.”
“The pain comes from more than the facts of circumstance, or the deeds of others. It comes from within. From understanding what we lost. It comes from knowing how foolish we were - vain, arrogant children - when we thought ourselves happy. It comes from knowing how fragile and doomed the old ways were, just when we thought them and ourselves, secure!. The pain comes from knowing we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again.”
“There's no sense drawing attention to yourself, Li." "Hellooooo. I'm aHorseman of the Apocalypse, and I'm betrothed to the most infamous, most powerful demon in existence. I couldn't draw more attention to myself i I wore Lady Gaga's meat dress to a PETA convention.”
“For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor.”
“Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.”

Source : Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.175, Macmillan
“The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last”
“If you're going to generalize about women, you'll find yourself up to here in exceptions.”

You may also like:

Aristotle
Philosopher
Chrysippus
Philosopher
Diogenes
Philosopher
Epicurus
Philosopher
Marcus Aurelius
Roman emperor
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosopher
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher
Socrates
Philosopher
Zeno of Citium