"A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening."

-- Evan Esar

#Talking Quotes #Listening Quotes #Easy Quotes

“Hey mister, where you goin' in such a hurry? Don't you think it's time you realize There's a whole lot more to life than work and worry All the sweetest things in life are free And they're right before your eyes? You've got to stop and smell the roses You've got to count your many blessings every day You're gonna find your way to heaven is a rough and rocky road If you don't stop and smell the roses along the way”
“It's the hardest thing in the world to be in a business where it's all about people accepting you, and you have a desperate need to be accepted, and yet you live in a, you operate in a society that's now very unaccepting.”
“That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work.”

Source : "A Conversation With Mojo Nixon". Interview with Samuel Barker, Rayanna Barker, www.rockzone.com. April 1, 2001.
“What is crucial is the provision of opportunities for telling all the diverse stories, for interpreting membership as well as ethnicity, for making inescapable the braids of experience woven into the fabric of America's plurality.”

Source : Maxine Greene (1995). “Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change”, Jossey-Bass
“Linda Evans Shepherd has blessed many by her warmth and openness. She's not only a delightful person, but she encourages others as she shares her joy.”
“The experience of happiness is a direct means of replenishing life energy and revitalizing the mind.”
“I love Australia passionately. I love our landscape. It's influenced most of my work, really. Almost everything I've written is about the landscape. Trying to find, the sacred, the spiritual in it.”
“Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.”

Source : John Updike (2013). “Picked-Up Pieces: Essays”, p.22, Random House

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