„We teach them to speak and also to listen. Because when people only talk and don't listen, they end up thinking that what they say is the only thing that is worth anything. … Speaking and listening to words is how we know who we are, where we come from, and where our steps are going. Also it's how we know about others, their steps, and their world. Speaking and listening to words is like listening to life.“

"I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet" http://www.csuchico.edu/zapatist/HTML/Archive/Communiques/etaJAN.html January, 2003

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Subcomandante Marcos4

mexikanischer Revolutionär und Autor 1957

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„We treat the children like children. It is the powerful with their war that treats them like they are adults. We talk to them. We teach them that the word, together with love and dignity, is what makes us human beings. We don't teach them how to fight. Well, yes, but only how to fight with their words. They learn. They know that the reason we are in all this is so that they won't have to do the same. And they talk and they also listen. Contrary to what you say, we teach the children that words don't kill but that yes it is possible to kill words and, along with them, the act of being human.“

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— Subcomandante Marcos Mexican activist 1957

"I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet" http://www.csuchico.edu/zapatist/HTML/Archive/Communiques/etaJAN.html January, 2003

„Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.“

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— Orhan Pamuk Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient 1952

Quelle: My Name is Red

„Listen to what others have to say. When you speak, you're only repeating things you already know. When you listen you learn.“

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— Steve Maraboli 1975

Quelle: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 41

„The Divine Energy is listening to us when we speak to other people, but also when we are still and silent and able to accept solitude as a blessing.“

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— Paulo Coelho, buch Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Solitude

„Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak.

Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.“

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— Cressida Cowell, buch How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse

Quelle: How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse

„The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen.“

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— Sarah Dessen American writer 1970

„To listen is not merely to hear. We in life, hear but very rarely do we know how to listen. To Listen is to hear, with an intellectual alertness and attention of awareness.“

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— Chinmayananda Saraswati Indian spiritual teacher 1916 - 1993

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

„When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.“

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— Anthony de Mello Indian writer 1931 - 1987

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One Minute Wisdom (1989)

„I speak and speak, … but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. … It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.“

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— Marco Polo Venetian explorer and merchant noted for travel to central and eastern Asia 1254 - 1324

Io parlo parlo ... ma chi m'ascolta ritiene solo le parole che aspetta. ... Chi comanda al racconto non è la voce: è l'orecchio.
Marco Polo to Kublai Khan, in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities (1974), ch. 9
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„Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.“

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— Gloria Steinem American feminist and journalist 1934

Quelle: My Life on the Road

„I think that individual voices are not as strong as a community of voices. If we can make a community of voices, then we can speak more truth. Also in a community, we learn to listen…“

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— Maxine Hong Kingston Chinese American author 1940

Quelle: On the strength of a community in “’I Can Write My Shadow’: Alexis Cheung Interviews Maxine Hong Kingston” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/can-write-shadow-alexis-cheung-interviews-maxine-hong-kingston/ in Los Angeles Review of Books (2016 Dec 22)

„It's amazing how we can do things simultaneously, like talking and not listening.“

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— Saul Gorn computer scientist 1912 - 1992

Quelle: Self-Annihilating Sentences, 1992, p. 11

„The reason why so few persons are agreeable in conversation is that each thinks more of what he desires to say, than of what the others say, and that we make bad listeners when we want to speak. Yet it is necessary to listen to those who talk, we should give them the time they want, and let them say even senseless things; never contradict or interrupt them; on the contrary, we should enter into their mind and taste, illustrate their meaning, praise anything they say that deserves praise, and let them see we praise more from our choice than from agreement with them. To please others we should talk on subjects they like and that interest them, avoid disputes upon indifferent matters, seldom ask questions, and never let them see that we pretend to be better informed than they are.“

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— François de La Rochefoucauld French author of maxims and memoirs 1613 - 1680

Reflections on Various Subjects (1665–1678), V. On Conversation

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

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— Winston S. Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874 - 1965

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

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— Epictetus philosopher from Ancient Greece 50 - 138

„Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.“

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— John Muir Scottish-born American naturalist and author 1838 - 1914

Frequently attributed to Muir without source. An extensive search of Muir's published and unpublished writings found several sharp and cogent observations concerning society (see above) but not this one.
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