"Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between?"

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Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.

— S. I. Hayakawa