"Seek first to understand before being understood."

-- J. Richard Clarke

#Understanding Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Understood Quotes

“I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.”
“Just tell them that their wildest dreams will come true if they vote for you.”
“To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.”
“Some people who see cooking as a job. They got into cooking at some stage and they're sort of ticking along trying to get the money together to buy the car to impress the girlfriend and you know they're doing their job, but some of these people one day, all of a sudden it becomes wonderfully exciting to them. They find this love of what they're doing and they're away.”
“Do not be afraid of what God asks of you! It is worth saying `yes' to God. In him we find joy.”
“If timing ain't everything, it's damn close”
“Maybe my records might make the next Ja Rule or Jay-Z want to rap.”
“The bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all as the sphere of private people come together as a public; they soon claimed the public sphere regulated from above against the public authorities themselves, to engage them in a debate over the general rules governing relations in the basically privatized but publicly relevant sphere of commodity exchange and social labor.”

Source : "The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)". Book by Jurgen Habermas translated by Thomas Burger and Frederick Lawrence, 1989.

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