After "Negotiations" class in which the topic of listening and knowing how to listen was discussed. One of the lecture slides featured the below quote:
"If speaking is silver, then listening is gold" - Turkish proverb"
Walking out of class with my Turkish friend Maz, I asked "are Turkish people good at listening then?" in response to the insightful proverb
"Ummm" Maz thought for a moment, "no actually. But they are good at creating proverbs that tell other people how to listen. Such is the irony".
Indeed.
Melanie Hampshire and Jill Kennington photographed by Norman Parkinson (Google Images)
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