"Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work."

-- Anna Deavere Smith

#Hard Work Quotes #Heart Quotes #Listening Quotes

“Casually mount the sounds and straddle the colors while you transcend listening and surpass watching.Â Â ”
“Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit.”
“Let the punishment fit the crime.”

Source : The Mikado act 2 (1885)
“How can it be, in a country as strong and rich as this one, that tens of thousands of Americans who need legal representation are turned away every year because their government won't support the very program designed to help them?”
“There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions. I lock away the things that do not serve me.”
“My faith is important. I have nothing without it.”
“You can't build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don't care about anybody in the room.”

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