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Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives… — Stephen Covey
The best thing you can do for a song is to hear it on the radio and to imagine what it could mean to you… — Ric Ocasek
I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these fingers, but I… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I am not asking anyone to take the fun out of childhood. As we all know, treats are one of the best parts of being… — Michelle Obama
To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and Americas long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead… — Joe Baca
I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead… — George Grosz
I was hoping to get a reception like this, I'd just hoped that it would be on Thursday night instead of Tuesday night. — Howard Dean
The American creationist movement has entirely bypassed the scientific forum and has concentrated instead on political lobbying and on taking its case to a fair-minded… — Kenneth R. Miller
The church latched on to that old doctrine of original sin like a dog to a stick, and before you knew it, the whole gospel… — Brian D. McLaren
I've changed my mind about it (DH) - instead of being bad, it stinks. — Sparky Anderson
Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an… — Erwin Chargaff
Iâ€™m so revolted by writers taking themselves seriously that, as a kind of protest, Iâ€™ve deprioritized the role of writing in my life. I do… — Geoff Dyer
Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such… — Bertrand Russell
Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of… — William Shakespeare
I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should… — Suzan-Lori Parks
People thrive on positive reinforcement. They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you criticize them in… — Bill Walsh
A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. A coach helps you measure your performance against your strengths instead of against someone else's.… — Andy Stanley
One of my best moves is to surround myself with friends who, instead of asking, 'Why?' are quick to say, 'Why not?' That attitude is… — Oprah Winfrey
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality.… — Benjamin Franklin
.. Playing live is about going for it .. it's about bringing it ... you should see a bunch of people trying out stuff, actually… — Brad Paisley

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