"Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty."

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Source : Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.15, Delphi Classics

Isocrates

#Ears Quotes #Ease Quotes #Way Quotes

“It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.”
“While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another one equally well known.”

Source : Octave Mirbeau (1911). “The Experiences of a Ladies' Maid”
“What you do in the off season determines what you do in the regular season.”
“I really enjoy being home because that's where family is. No matter where you're from, it's hard to beat home.”

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“I feel like I'm climbing as well, if not better, than ever.”
“Something in my gut twisted so hard that it felt like I was being tickled by an invisible hand, and it took me a moment to realize what it was. Hope. It had been so long since I'd felt it that the sensation was like something living inside me, something wonderful waiting to break free, just like I was.”
“WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by India that enables our software engineers to work while the Americans sleep.”
“Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of the system. If it was not like that, there would be no hospital nurses, for compared dispassionately with other professions, the hours are long, the work hard, and the pay inadequate to the amount of concentrated energy required. A nurse, however, does not view her profession dispassionately. It is too much a part of her.”

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