“From the beginning moments of life, the urges for each of us to become a self in the world are there--in the liveliness of our innate growth energies, in the vitality of our stiffening-away muscles, in our looking eyes, our listening ears, our reaching-out hands.” WorldChildrenSelfMomentsHandsEyeEnergyGrowthListeningEarsIndividualityMusclesReachingUrgesReach OutVitalityInnateMoments Of LifeListening Ear Book:Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood
“When I was a kid, three years old, I couldn't walk by the piano without reaching up and trying to play a few notes on it. There are kids who are just drawn to listening to music and dancing to it and trying to conduct.” TryingYearsPlayKidsThreeWalksListeningDancingNotesPianoReachingThree YearsListening To MusicThree Year OldsReaching Up Author:Michael Tilson Thomas
“I just think we as consumers of information media must be very clear what it is we are consuming. Whether we are choosing to get our information by listening to people fight about it. Or whether we're choosing to get it by listening to the facts or watching the facts as they're laid out and then reaching our own conclusions. It's very different ways of info gathering, but it's not all journalism.” PeopleThinkingWayDifferentFactsFightingClearMediaInformationListeningConclusionJournalismConsumersDifferent WaysReachingGatheringConsuming Author:Gwen Ifill
“I feel most spiritual when I am listening to a soprano voice soaring to the top of its range at the most dramatic point of an aria. It feels like a geyser shooting up from the center of the earth and reaching for the stars.” FeelsEarthSpiritualStarsVoiceListeningShootingRangeDramaticReachingSoarSopranosAriaReaching For The StarsShooting UpGeysers Author:China Forbes