“What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.” PeopleWayPlayWrittenHumilityListeningRelate Author:Trevor Nunn
“The life that intends to be wholly obedient, wholly submissive, wholly listening, is astonishing in its completeness. Its joys are ravishing, its peace profound, its humility the deepest, its power world-shaking, its love enveloping, its simplicity that of a trusting child.” WorldChildrenJoyHumilityListeningProfoundSimplicityAstonishingShakingObedientSubmissiveCompleteness Author:Thomas Raymond Kelly
“When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is the beginning of humility and the renewal of our soul's energy; as only by listening to all that is larger than us can we discover and feel our place in the Universe.” FeelsSoulUniverseEnergyHumilityListeningNoiseRenewal Author:Mark Nepo
“If someone comes up to me at a show and talks to me, if they're not freaking out about meeting me, which I'm just not very good at dealing with, of course I'll talk to them. I'm mean, they're a person. I'm not a monster. It may sound like bullshit humility, but I'm just a dude making music. I'd be doing this if no one was listening.” MeanHumilityListeningMeetingsVery GoodBullshitTalk To Me Author:Jeff Rosenstock
“A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.” MenStatesChristianLyingReadingSleepWifeHumilityPrideListeningHigherEatingStandardsPreparingPlatoThankfulnessGoing To SleepTemperancePride And Humility Author:C. S. Lewis