Seek first to understand, then to be understood.Most people do not listen with the intent to understand: they listen with the intent to reply. They’re filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people’s lives.

  • -- Stephen R. Covey 科维

先寻求理解,再寻求被理解。大多数人倾听的目的不是为了理解,而是为了回应。他们通过自己的范例来过滤一切,把自己的自传读给别人听。

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We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!

如果我们要求了解我们所看到的东西,我们将看不到什么。一个人能用他的理解力来衡量多少事情啊!在这期间,他会看到多少更伟大的事情啊!

For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

因为马被迫所作的,正如西门所见,都是无知的。它也没有什么美,就像一个人鞭打一个跳舞的人一样。

Heaven, n.: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.

天堂,n。诗歌在那里,恶人不再以谈论他们的私事来烦扰你;在你阐述自己的事情时,好人侧耳倾听。

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

我喜欢吵闹的音乐。我大声听,这也是我学习如何做到这一点的一部分。轻柔地录音,大声回放,就会发生另一件事。

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

当你用嘴宣告平安的时候,要小心,要把平安充满你的心灵。

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

听别人说话能让他们开心。