"I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say."

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Source : Michael Thomas Ford (2011). “Suicide Notes”, p.24, Harper Collins

Michael Thomas Ford

#Talking Quotes #People Quotes #Listening Quotes

“The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell. But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system. An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.”

Source : John Lukacs (1970). “The Passing of the Modern Age”
“Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that something extraordinary happened at the moment in time that counts for us as today. This is the case even though a hundred million years from now, all that we consider to be the great works of manâ€”the sculptures and the libraries, the monuments and the museums, the cities and the factoriesâ€”will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper.”

Source : Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Music at its essence is what gives us memories.”
“We do not diminish the value of what women or men achieve in any worthy endeavor or career -- we all benefit from their achievements -- but still recognize that there is not a higher good than motherhood and fatherhood in marriage. There is no superior career, and no amount of money, authority or public acclaim can exceed the ultimate rewards of family.”
“Unfortunately, Poots is the name that I've been graced with for my life, but it's not short for anything.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.”
“To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption; and equality in consumption cannot be achieved except by violence.”

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