G. K Chesterton

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Topic: Advice, Listening, Success
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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Love means to love that which is unloveable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all.

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Love Virtue

Public education has not produced an educated public.

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Education

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

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Education Learning Society

There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.

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Awareness Belief Thinking

We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.

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Liberty Speech

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

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Communication Conflict

There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

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Desire Gratitude Life

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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Gratitude Happiness

One would think it would be most unwise in a man to be afraid of a skeleton, since Nature has set curious and quite insuperable obstacles to his running away from it.

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Obstacles

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Listening taught you how to speak. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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Never miss a good chance to shut up.

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When another speaks, be attentive yourself, and disturb not the audience. — George Washington

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Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. — Robert Fulghum

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You’d be amazed how many companies don’t listen to their customers. — Ross Perot

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Listen with your eyes and your ears. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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Hear the other side, and believe little. — Italian Proverb

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Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side. — Mohandas Gandhi

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In silence man can most readily preserve integrity. — Meister Eckhart

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Listening requires shared time. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach

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A man's ruin lies in his tongue. — Egyptian Proverb

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False leaders proclaim to have all the answers. True leaders listen. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

› Martin Luther King Jr.

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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. — Henry David Thoreau

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Though I sit down now, the time will come when you will hear me. — Benjamin Disraeli

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Listen to the lesson failure offers. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. — Thich Nhat Hanh

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Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. — Publilius Syrus

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The ultimate definition of success is the ability to repeat it. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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Acknowledge that you learn just as much, if not more, from your failures as you do from your successes. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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You succeed at being a failure when you blame someone else. Failure can hurt. It is easy to shift pain onto others. Ignore the blame. If you don’t take accountability for your failures, you can’t take credit for your success. Claiming someone else is responsible for your life is futile. Either you are in charge of the choices you make or you are merely a puppet dancing on the pulled strings of others. Make the decision to accept and learn from failure that ultimately leads to success when you are accountable for your actions. Failure leads to success. Embrace every failure knowing it leads to triumph. Sure, the actions of others can affect your decisions, but you are responsible for your response. Yes, catastrophe of weather, war, death, all kinds of adversity imaginable, can manipulate you into thinking you are a victim. You are a victim if you think you are. You are a victory when thought so. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. — Og Mandino

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We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

› Martin Luther King Jr.

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I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeeded. — Michael Jordan

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We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.

› Plutarch

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