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“The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.”

Thinking Book Life Is Artist Found Language Listening Active Concrete Shelter Towers Ivory Active Life Ivory Tower

Author:Sean O'Casey

“Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. We wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. A folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. A folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. It depends on who's playing and who's listening.”

Ifs Way Want Play Moments Might Faces Life Is Lying Song Next Stuff Listening Depends Thousand Comfortable Folks Vary Folk Songs Truth About Life

Book:Chronicles

Source: Chronicles

“I like to question the minutia, to get to the essence of things. The minutia of life is all about design. It's about the design of how you talk to another human being; it's the design of speech; it's the design of everything we do. We need to be better at listening, and we need to aim more directly at understanding and being understood.”

Needs Humans Life Is Understanding Human Beings Design Listening Speech Understood Essence Aim

Author:Richard Saul Wurman

“Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud-and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word. But in the night of Death Hope sees a star and listening Love can hear the rustling of a wing.”

Looks Two Life Is Night Stars Answers Cry Listening Cold Eternity Wings Strive Lips Vain Height Echoes Barren Voiceless Wailing

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Every day of my life is going out in public and seeing people's lives and listening to stories - all that kind of stuff musically inspires me.”

People Kind Stories Life Is Stuff Seeing Inspire Listening Going Out

Author:LeAnn Rimes

“Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.”

Source: Gone to Soldiers: A Novel

“Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars - to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording - all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.”

“Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.”

Past Life Is Listening Eternal Sake Listening To Music Life Is Like

Book:The Way of Liberation: Essays and Lectures on the Transformation of the Self

Source: The Way of Liberation: Essays and Lectures on the Transformation of the Self