"I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say."

-- Ursula Burns

#People Quotes #Listening Quotes #Said Quotes

“Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.”
“Entertain the people. Give them something they're not ready for, make them talk.”
“A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and lets you sit quietly beside it when you don't feel like speaking.”

Source : Joan Walsh Anglund (1958). “A Friend is Someone who Likes You”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes.”
“And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.”
“It is also true that his hair had a reddish tinge and, as everybody knows, no one with red hair can ever truly be said to be handsome.”
“The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.”
“I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.”

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