Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
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It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.
You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Sometimes listening is of greater value than speaking.
If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything.
The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
I don't listen well at all. I don't take direction well at all. I have to admit that is my main fault.
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