"When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening."

-- Banana Yoshimoto

#Responsibility Quotes #Listening Quotes #Way Quotes

“Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.”
“Management has authority only as long as it performs.”
“By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespeare, whereas any decent eighteen-year-old student of physics will know more physics than Newton.”
“For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back.”

Source : Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.115, Penguin
“That is what we have been feinting towards for a year of our lives: pretending like it was going to happen, acting like it was going to happen, and making you think it was going to happen. I like to work from the back forward.”

Source : "Here's what comes next after last night's surprising 'Veep' finale". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. June 27, 2016.
“Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect.”
“If you can't say it clearly, you don't understand it yourself”

Source : John Searle (2010). “Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization”, p.8, Oxford University Press
“It's funny that you can murder someone horribly and graphically and disturbingly in a horror film, and it's not an NC-17, but if you put a naked man on screen, everyone freaks out.”

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