"When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen."

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Source : Bette Greene (2000). “Summer of my German soldier”

Bette Greene

#People Quotes #Want Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“I'd like to rescue people in trouble, like Superman.”

Source : Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2012.
“The study of motivation goes back to the Greeks. Their sports were essential to their education. They saw in sports the integration of body, mind and soul, the creation of beauty, the mastering of athletics, and the challenge of competition. A French sociologist points this out. "Sports," he wrote, was part of the education of the citizen. He was expected to engage in exercise for a whole series of reasons that had to do with the shaping of the citizen; the relation between moral good and physical good; and the growth of a person.”
“[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.”
“My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-aged Asian lady who hadn't noticed he was with his family. He was certainly pleased about it.”
“Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!”
“Nobody loves only once.”
“Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.”
“Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.”

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