"To be a deep listener, one of the first things we have to do is give up the need and the desire to give advice. Knowing answers does not require stating them; there are times when offering answers is not helpful, as when a person is in the middle of their own learning process."

-- John Earle

#Inspirational Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Offering Quotes

“I don't particularly like babies. They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding. No matter how much free day care you throw at women, babies are still time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness.”

Source : "I want to be alone. Oh really?" by Oliver Marre, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2007.
“Well begun is half done.”
“Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.”
“I've got no timetable. I'm sort of sick of timetables, to be honest.”
“The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.”
“Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be done." What, then, does a man mean by saying, Science displaces religion, when in this deep sense science itself springs from religion?”
“When people come up to me and say, 'You made it,' I think, 'But I'm not done yet. Not everyone's heard my music.' I want to be a household name.”
“The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate”

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