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“The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.”

Way May Found Given Force Water Movement Objects Listening Limits Function Sake Boundaries Fixed Helpful Listeners Fulfilling Definite Centre Confined Talkers Canals Restraining Erratic

Author:Charles Dickens

“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

“We measure our presence in generations; we cannot dig down ten thousand years and find our bones. Our arrival is scribed upon the line of history; it does not drift upon the winds of story, or float upon the shrouds of myth. We are still explorers and discoverers, seeking meaning through movement and examination. But we are coming to a time of listening. Our sweat and breath are now upon this land. Voices rise up, and we begin to hear the echoes in the stones.”

Source: A Haunting Reverence: Meditations on a Northern Land

“The pulse of a strong relationship involves a rhythmic movement between giving and taking, talking and listening, valuing the other person and feeling commensurately valued in return.”

Giving Persons Feelings Strong Talking Wise Movement Listening Return Pulse Strong Relationship Talking And Listening

Book:The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

Source: The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy.”

Men Modern Movement He Man Listening Socialism Instance Socialist Modern Times

Author:Sergio Leone

“I like California because it still has the glamour and romanticism and exoticism of a very foreign place. It was the place that when I was young, I was raised on "I Love Lucy" and listening to the Grateful Dead and reading Jack Kerouac. They, to me, were all symbols of this very foreign sense of promise and movement. After all this time here I'm glad I still have it.”

Stills Young Reading Movement Listening Promise Grateful Raised Glad Symbols California Glamour Romanticism Lucy Foreign Places

Author:Pico Iyer