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Ernest Hemingway 501
American author and journalist 1899–1961Related quotes
“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
“I find people only listen to you when they ask you to talk to them.”
From 1980s onwards, Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
Source: The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), p. 239
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“My experience is that people are most likely to listen to reason when in bed.”
Liner notes of An Evening With Groucho (1972) the recording of his appearance at Carnegie Hall.
“Lots of people talk to animals… Not very many listen though… that's the problem.”
Source: The Tao of Pooh
“If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”
Algernon, Act I.
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Context: Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
The Sound of Silence
Song lyrics, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. (1964)
Context: And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared
No one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.