"I tell cold callers I'm very interested but a bit deaf, my hearing aid is not working properly and can they speak up. The idea is to deliberately miss-hear what they say, ask them to repeat, only louder, and see how loud I can get them to shout. After a while I say "I'm not really deaf" and was just wasting their time, as they were doing with me."

-- Sean O'Grady

#Ideas Quotes #Missing Quotes #Hearing Quotes

“The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.”
“If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that the can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting...It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.”
“An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.”
“Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.”
“Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.”
“I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.”
“If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who has never worn shoes? Yet still, even if the walk starts out as painful, the experience may be well worth it.”
“You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.”

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