Listening

'Respect for others begins by not ignoring their words.'
Elias Canneti
From: 'The Torch in My Ear'

Need I say anything more?

A biographical detail for your interest: Elias Canneti won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1981, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power". For the last 20 years of his life he live in Zurich. He is buried there beside Irish author James Joyce.