"I learned to have the patience to listen when people put forward their views, even if I think those views are wrong. You can't reach a just decision in a dispute unless you listen to both sides."

-- Nelson Mandela

#Thinking Quotes #Views Quotes #People Quotes

“My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.”

Source : John James Audubon, Maria Rebecca Audubon, Elliott Coues (1994). “Audubon and His Journals”, p.527, Courier Corporation
“Managing your money does not depend upon becoming wealthy or declaring vows of poverty. Rather, it is about creating stability and sufficiency - a balanced flow of monetary energy through your life.”
“The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.”
“Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.”

Source : William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on men and manners”, p.231
“A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.”
“I want my work to always be hopeful, in the end. You're giving me two hours, and, in Shots Fired's case, 10 hours of your life. I don't want you to ever leave something I've done feeling worse than when you came in. I hope the work can be aspirational, and aspirational doesn't have to be corny at all.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“Dripping rain like golden honey- And the sweet earth flying from the thunder”

Source : Jean Toomer (1988). “The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer”, p.10, UNC Press Books
“We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.”

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