"Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening."

-- Dorothy Sarnoff

#Meaningful Quotes #Listening Quotes #Audience Quotes

“"What kind of world do we live in? Why are we applauding this guy's abs?" I mean, no offense to Michael Phelps. We like him. But he's not smart. He hasn't invented anything or saved people's lives. He's a guy with abs, and we celebrate these abs.”

Source : "The Pressure Cooker as Transcendence". Interview with David L. Ulin, believermagblog.wordpress.com. January 15, 2014.
“The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity.”
“The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors.”

Source : Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1889). “The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton”
“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
“As Christians learn how self-styled Jews have spent millions of dollars to manufacture the 'Jewish myth' for Christian consumption and that they have done this for economic and political advantage, you will see a tremendous explosion against the Jews. Right thinking Jewish leaders are worried about this, since they see it coming.”
“Kant thinks we can show that there is no contradiction in supposing we are free.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.”
“Life is less than nothing without love.”

Source : Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.546

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