"One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying"

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Communication Quotes #Talking Quotes #Attention Quotes

“The fear that all this will end. The fear that it won't.”

Source : Rae Armantrout (2016). “Partly: New and Selected Poems, 2001–2015”, p.144, Wesleyan University Press
“You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success- none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.”
“I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I felt like a charlatan because what I was teaching I probably couldn't do.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There's nothing more stubborn than a fact. That is why you hate them so much. They offend you.”

Source : Tom Rob Smith (2009). “Child 44”, p.96, Simon and Schuster
“A total absence of self-doubt is the first sign of insanity.”
“Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.”
“Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.”

Source : Liner notes to "Searching For the Young Soul Rebels" album, 1980.
“So thoughtless awareness is the first beautiful state you have to achieve. That will give you peace and a witness state to enjoy the drama of life, to enjoy the different varieties of people, while you will be growing within yourself.”

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