"The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying."

-- Sydney J. Harris

#Art Quotes #Empathy Quotes #Listening Quotes

“No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.”
“A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.”
“On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.”
“To a critic, no explanation will do. To a fan, no explanation is needed.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.”

Source : Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1993). “The New Well-tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I think we are all of the same opinion that "wherever you go, there you are," and if you are constantly searching for paradise outside of yourself, you will miss what is in your own backyard.”
“A "portal" is an opening (door, window, or opening). A heavenly portal or a glory portal is a heavenly opening through which God's goodness manifests. I have seen a portal in a vision and it was a circular opening where a column of light poured down into the earth. There were angels ascending and descending.”
“The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.”

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