"Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. ...I beg of you, pretend you are a dog like me and LISTEN to other people rather than steal their stories."

-- Garth Stein

#Dog Quotes #People Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Be bold - and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

Source : "The Conquest of Fear". Book by Basil King, Chapter I : Fear And The Life-Principle, § XI, p. 29, 1921.
“One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've seen on Earth so that the geologists and the scientists on the ground would know what you're talking about; and then take pictures of them.”
“Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of all in our minds.”
“Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.”
“Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don't deny that”
“What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.”
“It is important for a father who feels pushed away [by the mom] to say, in effect, When you do that, I feel unwanted as a father, or I feel my rough-housing is not bad parenting; it's my contribution to helping our child take risks. Women cannot hear what men do not say.”
“It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.”

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