Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand…Karl Menninger (1893 - 1990) Psychiatrist, Cited in BITS & PIECES

I have learned to listen from my students in the public school system. I learned more from them than any textbook I ever found on a university bookshelf. It just amazes me what I hear from them and see them do. I am a better clinician today because I listened to them instead of telling them what I know.

If you listen carefully to what a child is saying to you, you'll see that he has a point to make. So I listen. And I answer them just as seriously as possible. And if I don't know the answer, I'll tell them I don't know...Bill Cosby, Comedian

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