Quotes 05/23/2018

*---- Quotes For The Day ----*
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
--Calvin Coolidge
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
--Ernest Hemingway
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. --Francois de La Rochefoucauld
**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
See at the bottom for the answer.
*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge-and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
--Steven Spielberg
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
--Wilson Mizner
MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
ANSWER: Frank Tyger

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