Communication Quote by Marya Mannes Download Open image “Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.” — Marya Mannes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication Down and Gardening Grows Lying Nature
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Crabgrass is aptly descriptive of this hated weed, for it does scuttle quickly through a lawn. — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
“You're like crabgrass! Every time I turn around, you're on another part of the lawn!” — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
Slow down and reflect on what's important to you in this life as sometimes we are going too fast to smell the herb garden. — Skip Marley Copy Share Image
The way to keep weeds from overwhelming you is to deal with them constantly and in their early stages. — George P. Bush Copy Share Image
When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches of wasteland. See… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual,… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration and diversity and change. It's impossible to have vision in art or government without risk, or the boldness and courage which produce risk. And this - in spite of what they call modern Republicanism - is… — Marya Mannes Copy Share
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and… — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless consumption isn't much of a life. And work offers us very little satisfaction. Plus our work and consumption is destroying the environment. And this is in the rich countries. Add starvation, etc. to the mix, and… — Michael Yates Copy Share
