1. Robert K. Greenleaf

2.  A mathematical solution is called beautiful when it penetrates the unknown, opens up new insights, advances knowledge…  “Ludwig, what has happened? We don’t understand you any more.”…

3.  Too many able young people entering business today stumble on their first jobs because they are so preoccupied with…  Listening in an attitude, an attitude toward other people and what they are trying to express… (whole paragraph)

4.  So the medical school decided that doctors in training should be taught to listen…(whole paragraph).

5.  Humor. “True humor,” said Thomas Carlyle, “springs more from the head than from the heart; it is not contempt, its essence is love…”  Tolerance. I use the word in an older meaning – the ability to bear suffering with serenity.

6.  In these two poems Robert Frost states…  I assume that you are resolved to use your lives well and to contribute more than you take out of life because…

7.  As John Gardner put it recently, we do well at growing critics and experts, but we do not produce enough people for the responsible roles.

8.  Let me urge, then, while you are young and your lifestyle may still be formed by conscious choices…