"I slip from workaholic to bum real easy."

Broderick, Matthew on laziness
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"Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak."

Epictetus on listening
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"One who cares is one who listens."

Clarke, J. Richard on listening
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"The less you talk, the more you're listened to."

Buren, Abigail Van on listening
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"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on listening
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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on difficulties   

"The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow."

Proverb, Norwegian on laziness
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"Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy."

Proverb, German on laziness
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"A young man idle, an old man needy."

Proverb, English on laziness   

"The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked."

Hill, Napoleon on laziness
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"Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline."

Erskine, John on listening
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"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."

Caplan, Mortimer on laziness
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"A person hears only what they understand."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on listening
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"Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it."

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De on listening
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"Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on courtesy   

"Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate."

Lombardi, Vince on coaches and coaching   

"A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with."

Wells, Kenneth A. on listening
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"One of the hardest things to do in life is to listen without intent to reply."

Unknown, Source on listening
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"The first duty of love is to listen."

Tillich, Paul on listening
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"Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. [Hamlet]"

Shakespeare, William on listening
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"To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frightened."

Murphy, Robert C. on listening
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"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention."

Moss, Richard on listening
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"Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?"

Montgomery, Robert on listening
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"When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say."

Lincoln, Abraham on listening
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"Let others confide in you. It may not help you, but it surely will help them."

Imhoff, Roger G. on listening
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"When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."

Hugo, Victor on listening
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"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."

Hemingway, Ernest on listening
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"Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing."

Chapian, Marie on discipline
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"No one is free who does not lord over himself."

Claudius on discipline   

"Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater."

Epictetus on discipline
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"When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed."

Horace on discipline   

"What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are. What we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline."

Liddon, Henry Parry on discipline
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"To know how to dispense with things is to possess them."

Regnard, Jean Francois on discipline   

"One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top."

Richards, Bob on discipline   

"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

Aristotle on discipline
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"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before."

Herodotus on perseverance
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"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]"

Herodotus on government   

"How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied."

Herodotus on envy
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"The destiny of man is in his own soul"

Herodotus on destiny
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"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks."

Herodotus on deeds and good deeds