"if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi"

-- Erin McKean

#Listening Quotes #Want Quotes #Mimi Quotes

“[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.”

Source : Bronislaw Malinowski (2001). “Man and Culture: An Evaluation of the Work of Bronislaw Malinowski”, p.6, Psychology Press
“What counted was not the facts but the fears.”

Source : Max Lerner (1957). “America as a Civilization”
“Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently. This is in stark contrast to creationism, which offers a static view of the world, one that cannot be challenged or tested with reason. And because it cannot make predictions, it cannot lead to new discoveries, new medicines, or new ways to feed all of us.”
“There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.”
“I find everything a struggle.”
“In the fiftiesâ€¦ we were so busy being cool that we didnâ€™t know how to say the word love”
“I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.”
“From the great trees the locusts cry In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove In the blue distance sobs-the wind Wanders by, heavy with odors Of corn and wheat and melon vines; The trees tremble with delirious joy as the breeze Greets them, one by one-now the oak Now the great sycamore, now the elm.”

Source : Hamlin Garland (1961). “Boy Life on the Prairie”, p.178, U of Nebraska Press

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