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What does listening require

S. I. Hayakawa
May 2003 (Vol. XVI, No. 5)

Listening requires entering actively and imaginatively into the other person's situation and trying to understand a frame of reference different from your own.

~ by S. I. Hayakawa
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It puzzles people at first, to see how little the able leader actually does,
and yet how much gets done.
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