"Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen."

-- Margaret J. Wheatley

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“This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.”
“I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference.”
“Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?”
“I'm not a huge Steven Spielberg nerd, but I know about him and I know of his work.”
“Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on Olympian heights. There are no impartial observers. Through the destruction, in certain countries, of the greatest of man's literary heritage, through the propagation of false ideas of racial and national superiority, the artist, the scientist, the writer is challenged. The struggle invades the formerly cloistered halls of our universities and other seats of learning. The battlefront is everywhere. There is no sheltered rear.”

Source : Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge
“Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. Â It is an investment.”

Source : Twitter post from May 17, 2011
“Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.”
“I didn't listen to executives.”

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