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“If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.”

People Ifs Feels Should Two Happens Comedy Imagine Listening Fool Conversation Dialogue Absurd Imagine That Remarks Irritated

Book:The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)

Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)

“We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook - if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for being available to what is trying to bubble up today.”

Source: The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

“We have a war on women, race wars. Income wars, age wars, religious wars, anything you can imagine. A house divided against itself cannot stand it. And it's going to be up to us, to people, to begin the focus on the positive things, on the things that we have in common and stop listening to those who are stoking the fires of division.”

People War Age House Religious Common Race Fire Focus Imagine Listening Income Division Divided Positive Things Religious Wars House Divided

Author:Benjamin Carson

“I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.”

People Ifs I Can Speak Imagine Doors Listening Gossip Tiresome

Book:Streaks of life

Source: Streaks of life

“[The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there a way to get rid of all those hours spent listening to bad call-centre music? Do policemen, academics, teachers and doctors really need to spend half their time filling in forms? Or can we imagine another world?”

World Way Needs Should Form Hours Challenges Half Accepting Teacher Imagine Listening Offers Doctors Inevitable Centre Bureaucracy Filling Utopia Policemen Another World Filling In

Author:Gillian Tett

“The same areas which are active in listening to music are also active when you imagine music, and this includes the motor areas, too. That explains why earlier, even though I was only thinking of the mazurka, I was thinking in terms of movement.”

Thinking Term Imagine Movement Listening Areas Active Listening To Music Motor

Author:Oliver Sacks

“I love watching audiences scream. I imagine it's the same joy that a director feels who has made a comedy when he or she is sitting at the back of a theater listening to the audience laugh. That sound of laughter is so sweet to a comedy director and that's exactly how a horror film feels when you hear the audience scream.”

Feels Made Film Joy Sound Audience Laughing Comedy Imagine Sweet Listening Horror Directors Laughter Sitting Theater Scream Horror Film

Author:Leigh Whannell

“Imagine Eminem writing a play with complex raps and syllables, and melodies flowing in and out. That's what it was like for me listening to Lin-Manuel Miranda, it was incredible. So it just goes to show that if you put your teaching style in a certain form, that will attract the attention of the people you are trying to teach.”

People Ifs Writing Trying Play Shows Form Certain Attention Teach Imagine Teaching Style Listening Complexes Incredibles Rap Melody Syllables Miranda

Author:Ryan Montgomery

“I especially cannot imagine anyone who grew up during the Cold War era listening to Donald Trump and saying, you know what, that's a guy that I want to support. It makes zero sense.”

Knows Want War Guy Support Imagine Listening Grew Cold Trump Grew Up Eras Zero Cold War

Author:Julian Castro