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'How To Talk So People Listen', that's the title of a book written by Sonya Hamlin in 2006.

How To Listen So People Talk...well, that's in the territory of the art of asking good questions

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"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again." Andre Gide French writer, humanist and moralist, 1947 Nobel prize for literature (1869-1951)

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"I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up." Walt Disney

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“People are talking and obviously it's nonsense so you begin to speak.” Eckhart Tolle

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"Big people monopolize the listening. Small people monopolize the talking." David J Schwartz, 'The Magic of Thinking BIG', (1959… 2015)