Ifs Quote by Cynthia Ozick Download Open image “To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.” — Cynthia Ozick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Inspirational Listening Powerless Thrones
One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“In our society, the power is given to those who talk – loud and often. What if the exact same power can be found… — Simon Zingerman Copy Share Image
It's important to listen so that you can understand, be active so that you' re not behind. — Mitch Alapan Copy Share Image
Just because someone tells you that you can't do something doesn't mean you have to listen. — Ewshy Copy Share Image
If you achieve a voice that will be heard, you should use it to speak up for the voiceless and oppressed. If you possess… — Craig Murray Copy Share Image
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
True listening is obedient listening. To listen to God is to obey Him. — Leanne Payne Copy Share Image
To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
If you have the strength to speak, you should have the courage to listen. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“The Germans are sentimental. Their word Heimweh . The English say homesick; the same in plain Swedish. Hemsjuk . Leave it to the Germans… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker and fable-gatherer… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is bigger and… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion,… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
