We never listen when we are eager to speak

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"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love

"Absence destroys small passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes tapers and kindles fires."

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love

"Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever."

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Awareness

"The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that which we have in others."

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Self-confidence

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

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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"Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first."

- Angela Ahrendts

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"Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure."

- Stanley McChrystal

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"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."

- Jack Welch

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