"We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role."

-- Brenda Ueland

#Talking Quotes #Listening Quotes #Roles Quotes

“I've learned that you don't have to win first place to win.”
“When you have a heart to serve and help others it unlocks something in you”
“In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.”

Source : Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”
“People knew less of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or switch away. Strangers were strange, and sometimes with an exciting, beautiful strangeness. It may be better for humanity that we should communicate more and more. But I am a heretic, I think our ancestors' isolation was like the greater space they enjoyed: it can only be envied. The world is only too literally too much with us now.”
“Football is my life. There is no question about that.”
“The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the disease in its entire extent in the shortest, most reliable, and least disadvantageous way, according to clearly realizable principles.”
“My paintings have an ongoing dialogue with photography. There are many painters who would say the same, I'm sure. The difference is that I'm thinking more about the temporal aspect of photography, rather than the visual.”
“I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.”

Source : "Why the Deadwood Guy Doesn't Care if NBC's Kings Makes Him More Famous". Interview with Jake Halpern, www.esquire.com. April 3, 2009.

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