"People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep you immobilized forever. Look for people who are already open to something new."

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Source : Daniel Quinn (2009). “Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure”, p.189, Broadway Books

Daniel Quinn

#Knowledge Quotes #Learning Quotes #People Quotes

“It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.”
“When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.”
“For me, it's always been the initial business - just getting a word down, any words down, on a blank piece of paper. Once I've done that, I'm away. Beginning is one half of the deed.”

Source : Source: strandmag.com
“I've got taste, it's inbred in me.”
“I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears.”

Source : "Y2K fever to heat up in '99" by Nancy Weil, www.cnn.com. December 28, 1998.
“The gypsy in my soul is living on the road again, ... When I first started my career, I was on the road for about five or six years straight, not living anywhere. Thirty-three years later, I`ve come full circle.”
“I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving to Chicago for his job. And so I went along. And it was a great thing that I did.”
“I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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