I was too busy listening...

Last week I had dinner with a friend. At one point during our conversation she expressed her frustration with a coworker. The woman has a tendency to offer quotes to her students. It isn’t the idea that the woman shares these words that annoys my friend, it is that she has not lived them.  
 

I was too busy listening to reply. It seemed like that was what you needed at the time. Now, I have had some time to think about it. 

Maybe those words resonate with your coworker, not because she has lived them, but because they are what she strives to become. 
 

"The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply." - Stephen R. Covey