"Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'."

-- Jhumpa Lahiri

#Mean Quotes #Listening Quotes #Leap Quotes

“We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That is the best way we can stay in touch with the fates of its creatures, its indigenous cultures, its earthbound wisdom. That is the best way we can be in touch with ourselves.”

Source : Gary Paul Nabhan (1994). “The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places”, Beacon Press (MA)
“I think great art goes beyond the control of the artist. In some ways, art often makes itself and reveals things about that artist that maybe the artist is not fully conscious of.”
“Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of our hearts.”
“AFC Wimbledon in the League! Talk about the ashes rising from the flames.”
“If you pursue an evenhanded policy between a cat and a mouse, do you help the mouse to survive - or allow the cat to eat half the mouse?”
“Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.”

Source : "Eternal Greece". Book by Rex Warner, 1961.
“I eat football, I sleep football. I am not mad I am just passionate”
“It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.”

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