I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.
quote by William Hamilton Maxwell
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Doin' What Comes Natur'lly
ANNIE OAKLEY and FEMALE CHORUS:
Folks are dumb where I come from,
They ain't had any learning.
Still they're happy as can be
Doin' what comes naturally (doin' what comes naturally).
Folks like us could never fuss
With schools and books and learning.
Still we've gone from A to Z,
Doin' what comes naturally (doin' what comes naturally)
You don't have to know how to read or write
When you're out with a feller in the pale moonlight.
You don't have to look in a book to find out
What he thinks of the moon and what is on his mind.
That comes naturally (that comes naturally).
My uncle out in Texas can't even write his name.
He signs his checks with "x's"
But they cash them just the same.
If you saw my pa and ma,
You'd know they had no learning,
Still they've raised a family
Doin' what comes naturally (doin' what comes naturally)
Cousin Jack has never read an almanac on drinking
Still he's always on the spree
Doin' what comes naturally (doin' what comes naturally).
Sister Sal who's musical has never had a lesson,
Still she's learned to sing off-key
Doin' what comes naturally (doin' what comes naturally).
You don't have to go a private school
Not to pick up a penny near a stubborn mule,
You don't have to have a professor's dome
Not to go for the honey when the bee's not home.
That comes naturally (that comes naturally).
My tiny baby brother, who's never read a book,
Knows one sex from the other,
All he had to do was look,
Grandpa Bill is on the hill
With someone he just married.
There he is at ninety-three,
Doin' what comes naturally (doin' what comes naturally
song performed by by Irving Berlin
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Lovin You
Lovin you
If I gave you forever
Would you take care of me? (a oo)
Would you take me for granted?
Run away?
Those wonderful things that you do
They got me feelin
In love with you
In love with you
That loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
Loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
I would give you laughter
Oh
And so much more than that
Oh yes I would (a oo)
And at your after
I would climb the highest mountain
To bring it back
You better believe
Those wonderful things that you do
They got me feelin
In love with you
In love with you
That loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
Loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
I will stay by your side
Whether Im wrong
Whether Im right
Oh its incredible
With you I wanna spend the rest of my life, yeah
Loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
Loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
Loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
Loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
Loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
Loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
Loving you is easy
Loving you is easy
Loving you is easy
Loving you is easy
song performed by by Alicia Keys
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Loving You
lovin' you
If i gave you forever
Would you take care of me? (a oo)
Would you take me for granted?
Run away?
Those wonderful things that you do
They got me feelin'
In love with you
In love with you
That loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
Loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
I would give you laughter
Oh
And so much more than that
Oh yes i would (a oo)
And at your after
I would climb the highest mountain
To bring it back
You better believe
Those wonderful things that you do
They got me feelin'
In love with you
In love with you
That loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
Loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
I will stay by your side
Whether i'm wrong
Whether i'm right
Oh it's incredible
With you i wanna spend the rest of my life, yeah
Loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
Loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
Loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
Loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
Loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
Loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
Loving you is easy
Loving you is easy
Loving you is easy
Loving you is easy
song performed by by Alicia Keys
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Listening and thinking
A good speaker is a bad listener.
A batsman is keen in watching.
A bowler is keen in throwing.
The bad listener hardly learns.
The good listener hardly thinks.
28.03.2001, Pmdi
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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A.f.u.
90 days on the road is what i need
When my axe cuts me deep, i let it bleed
On the stage, off my strings, down my face
And all over me
Pumpin' up for the show
Feelin' like something's gonna blow
S'got me all fired up
Yes, i'm all fired up
Through the ice into the fire
Blowin' steam
North and south, east n'west, right n'left
I'm always extreme
Don't like the middle squeezing me
I don't like nothin' in between
Yes, i'm all fired up
Got me all fired up
When the rest have packed it up
I'm alive, i'm electric, inspired
I, i'm naturally wired
Wired, naturally wired
Wired, wired
I'm naturally wired
Naturally wired
Wired, naturally wired
Wired, naturally wired
song performed by by Van Halen
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Lovin' U
If I gave you forever
Would you take care of me? (wa-ooo)
Would you take me for granted,
Unaware
Those wonderful things that you do
They got me feelin
In love wit chu
In love wit chu
That loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
Loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
I would give you laughter
Oh, And so much more than that
Oh yes I would (wa-oo)
Anything you're after
I would climb the highest mountain
To bring it back
Youd better believe
Those wonderful things that you do
They got me feelin
In love with you
In love with you
And loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
Loving you is easy
Comes so naturally
I will stay by your side
Whether I'm wrong,
Whether I'm right
Oh, it's incredible
With you I intend to spend the rest of my life,
Yeah hey yeah
Loving you is easy
Comes so, comes so naturally
Loving you is easy
Comes so, so.
It comes so naturally
Loving you is easy
Sooo easy
Loving you is easy
It's easy
It comes so naturally
Loving you is easy
Yeahhhh
Loving you is easy
It comes so naturally
Loving you is easy
song performed by by Alicia Keys
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A very good listner
As seat belt was fastened
I pretended not to be listened
The eyes were dozing and I simply relaxed
The thoughts invaded mind as problem was so much waxed
I could not prove good listener
I was not new or beginner
The chances were getting thinner
As others were proving very good winners
It is nice to be good listener
You may not emerge as looser
People may try to put their views
They want favorable response and dues
You may fall out of grace
They will not leave any trace
It is hard to neglect any one
As if we have to share problem of some ones
Pretend as if you are sympathetic
You are attentive to the situation pathetic
You may suggest one or two good things
It may be taken as advice for something
It is good to be listened or to listen
The problems may emerge all of sudden
You need to confide it to close friends
Though no solution may be in sight to end
It is human tendency to feel relieved
What ever advice you get must be believed
It is certainly a relief amidst crisis
Not much is to be laid as emphasis
poem by Hasmukh Amathalal
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He who talks to a silent listener will soon stand naked.
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
quote by Thornton Wilder
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Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I’ll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that’s too bad.
quote by John Coltrane
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When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.
quote by Leo Ornstein
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Poor is the person who does not know when he has had enough. He who talks to a silent listener will soon stand naked.
Silent
Silent when I have nothing to say.
Silent just to avoid the fray.
Silent when I am not sure.
Silent—I can't stand anymore.
Silent when you make me mad.
Silent I am when times are sad.
Silent when I am too shy.
Silent when I want to cry.
Silent as I carry life's load.
Silent... I may soon explode.
poem by Shaqueena Celestin
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Drop Dead Gorgeous
Totally out of control
She owns me
I didnt know that she'd know She stoned me
I think I got it bad and I cant let it go
I thought and youd be much better
All of the cashmere all orange and green
Shes naturally drop dead gorgeous
cleanly gardenia and black lessareen
shes naturally drop dead gorgeous
its so not fair
Completely inside my head imagine pretending
Shes the book that Ive read with a beautiful ending
It really drives me mad I cant leave her alone
cause I wont let me forget her
Rose colored glasses you know what that says
shes naturally drop dead gorgeous
Her sweet molasses on my slice of bread
shes naturally drop dead gorgeous
Totally out of control
She owned me
Sweet almond eyes just to see and be seen
shes naturally drop dead gorgeous
she tasted like cherries sweet loves grenadine
shes naturally drop dead gorgeous
Makes love like a rabbit to my velveteen
shes naturally drop dead gorgeous
a gem with a smile like a young norma jean
shes naturally drop dead gorgeous
song performed by by Aerosmith
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Pleasantries
When you meet one
You must greet
Saying good morning.
When you part
You must treat
Saying good night.
In between, you say
“How do you do? ’
The words are lifeless.
You use them heartless.
The listener knows it.
If you don’t use
The listener is hurt.
Pleasantries are ghosts
Offending in their absence.
17.03.2006
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Nature's rebuke; or, What are words worth?
Only recently, you asked me
for my ‘Laws’ – as if you asked the Sun
just where his golden rays shall, in the moment, strike…
and now you rashly ask me, why, then, I create…
you should not have questioned me..
but understand me as I understand myself:
keep silent; understand by silence;
for I am not accustomed to your human talk..
For what is there to understand? What comes to be
comes as the object of my silent contemplation;
comes into being naturally; it is myself.
I too was born of such a contemplation;
and so I have a natural love for that;
as geometricians contemplate, and then may draw,
so my contemplation – in my timeless nature –
brings out of passing time, the products of myself;
and if you find new lines
in bodies that come forth from me,
I did not draw them; though they come from me..
the lines, the frills
of daffodils
all shine, not by my planned design
but from tranquillity;
just contemplate;
and in that state
I’ll be your village preacher;
taken, shaken, by surprise,
you too shall share my nature;
morning, evening,
here nor there,
earth hath no earthly manmade thing
to show more naturally fair;
be tranquil, Will, and just be still;
in silent scents, to taste my will..
all else is hubris; blasphemy;
shut up! and have respect for Me…’
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[The first part of the poem follows closely
Plotinus' Ennead III 8,4,1-10;
the second part, er, followed..]
poem by Michael Shepherd
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Dear Reader
Baudelaire considers you his brother, and Fielding calls out to you every few paragraphs as if to make sure you have not closed the book, and now I am summoning you up again, attentive ghost, dark silent figure standing in the doorway of these words.
poem by Billy Collins
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A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
quote by Katharine Whitehorn
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A Poem For A Single Listener
A POEM FOR A SINGLE LISTENER
A poem for a single listener
Whose name is unknown
Whose face is unseen
But who hears
The beauty
In the world
And reads with me
The poem
Of our no longer
Being alone.
poem by Shalom Freedman
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