"The best way to persuade is with your ears."

-- Dean Rusk

#Life Quotes #Advice Quotes #Ears Quotes

“I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.”
“Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.”
“We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we know that we're only given eighty summers or so per lifetime, and each one has to be better then the last, has to encompass a trip to that arts center up at Bard, a seemingly mellow game of badminton over at some yahoo's Vermont cottage, and a cool, wet, slightly dangerous kayak trip down an unforgiving river. Otherwise, how would you know that you have lived your summertime best? What is you missed out on some morsel of shaded nirvana?”
“Enclosures have been appropriately called a revolution of the rich against the poor.”
“Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. Itâ€™s who you want to be, your most powerful self. Write your books. Finish them, then make them better. Find the way. No one will make this dream come true for you but you.”
“What is it about maps and globes that seems to require our undivided attention? I've spent hours looking at maps of places I will never see and maps so old that they are a record of nothing but the faintest glow of the past. Perhaps they turn us into gods, letting us look down at the insignificant drones that occupy the earth. Or maybe they simply feed off our hunger to go off into the unknown. Venturing off to places where people don't chain themselves to tedious jobs and financial debts but places of imagination, mystery and freedom Perhaps they're just trying to tell us something.”

Source : Tom Hodgkinson, Dan Kieran (2010). “The Book of Idle Pleasures”, p.48, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“Don't let the idiots that like to bring you down, succeed in discouraging you. I let it get to me a while ago, and let me tell you, it feels SO good to come up under it!”

Source : Source: joonbug.com
“I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers.”

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