"Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you."

-- Henri Nouwen

#Spiritual Quotes #Self Quotes #Listening Quotes

“The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.”
“I was spending three days literally just kibitzing with Jack Nicholson at a table! It was heaven! And talk about a normal guy. My God, he was just so real and cool and relaxed and fun. And he was a great performer. He's such an actor. He really was so focused on every moment. It was great.”
“You have various institutions like law firms and accounting firms which bill by the hour. I'm really against that. You have an incentive to go slowly, be there as long as possible, to over-research things and over-staff.”
“So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes.... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.”
“Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.”

Source : 1612 The White Devil, act 4, sc.2.
“The ability to walk in someone else's shoes, or in my case, play down in someone else's cleats is one of the very best things you can do. There's nobody in this world who doesn't have that voice in their head. Sometimes it's the best voice in the world, and it pumps you up, but sometimes the voice is down. I wanted my players to be able to hear my voice in their head instead of someone else's because I knew that was a narrative I could control.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“When you are here, you are here. When you are gone, you are gone. It isn't a problem to be gone, so long as you are really here when you're here.”
“There's nothing in my head that's worth anything at all because it's the culture that put it there.”

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