"To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention."

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Source : Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1986). “Teacher”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#Listening Quotes #Attention Quotes #Feels Quotes

“There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.”
“Donâ€™t be sad by what you see Itâ€™s true life has itâ€™s miseries But one thingâ€™s always worked for me Worry ends when faith begins.”
“Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.”
“I've come to realize that it is much easier to infatuate people with promises, or even to lead them to their own deaths, than it is to awaken them to use their minds.”

Source : Xianliang Zhang, Martha Avery (1991). “Getting used to dying: a novel”, HarperCollins Publishers
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”
“Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be spoiled.”
“All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the room and I said, 'I love you, baby,' and she said, 'Well, I don't like you,' and I said to my wife, 'The meaner she is to me, the more I love her.'”
“We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting”

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