"But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated."

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Source : Roger Sessions (2015). “Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays”, p.166, Princeton University Press

Roger Sessions

#Communication Quotes #Two Quotes #Profound Quotes

“Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.”
“History is the autobiography of a madman.”
“It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.”
“Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.”

Source : "The basic trends of our times" by Pitirim Sorokin, (p. 39), 1964.
“Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.”
“Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.”
“The French are predictably unpredictable.”
“Follow the Golden Rule. Â Be kind to your neighbors, love them as much as you would love yourself, do unto others....”

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