Listen Up

*  No man every listened himself out of a job.

Calvin Coolidge  (1872 – 1933), US President

*  Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

Dorothy Sarnoff  (1914 – 2008),  American operatic soprano, actress and self-help guru

*  When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway  (1899 – 1961),  American author

*    To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld  (1613 – 1680),  French author and philosopher