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- Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me... to try to know them…
- And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good
- We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And the true listener…
- The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. That is why you must freely…
- When we commit ourselves to writing for some part of each day, we are happier, more enlightened, alive, light-hearted and generous to everyone else. Even…
- If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do not come at…
- We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the…
- The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude…
- Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the…
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle