“Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?” WorldPersonsEndsFactsBodyGovernmentMillionsListeningFoolCircumstancesSixHundredTwentiesSevenEightAccomplishedFiftyMiscellaneous Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six years old. And then when I got to be eleven, twelve, and into my teens, I was just listening to records all the time, and I got a guitar. I started to take guitar lessons when I was twelve.” ThinkingWritingYearsLittlesStoriesRecordsListeningLessonsSixGuitarShort StoryTwelveTeensElevenJust ListenSix Year Olds Author:Lucinda Williams
“I lived in Detroit until I was six. My older sister was living with us, and she listened to the Ohio Players and Stevie Wonder, so I grew up listening to stuff like that.” StuffWonderPlayerListeningGrewSixGrew UpDetroitOhioOlder Sister Author:Boots Riley
“English was my fourth language. I arrived, I enrolled in public school, as a child, I believe I was about six years old when we finally landed in Michigan. And I was initially put in special education because I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the English language because I was listening to Hungarian and Albanian and German. My mind broke down like I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the fourth language.” YearsMindBelieveChildrenSchoolLanguageI BelieveSpecialListeningSixBrokeFourthPublic SchoolEnglish LanguageWrapsMichiganSix Year OldsHungariansAlbanianSpecial Education Author:Masiela Lusha
“Freudian therapists do a lot of listening and very little persuading, and that was one of the reasons I eventually gave up being an analyst. You had to be too passive and not speak up, and you couldn't give homework to clients. While I was still an analyst, I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit psychoanalysis after practicing it for six years.” GivingYearsLittlesStillsReasonSpeakListeningSixQuittingCriticizeArticlesPassiveClientsGave UpPsychoanalysisHomeworkTherapistsObjectionsAnalystsPersuading Author:Albert Ellis