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“I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.”

Way Lasts Listening Embarrassed Cds

Author:Bjork

“Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.”

People Way Feelings Water Boys Listening Bottom Familiar Echoes Toes Wade

Book:Letters of Wallace Stevens

Source: Letters of Wallace Stevens

“It was step by step that I earned my way into the lives and hearts of people by giving them recordings that I grew to love and as I found my listening audience also grew to love.”

People Way Giving Heart Found Steps Audience Listening Grew My Way

Author:Dionne Warwick

“If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.”

Ifs Way Sound Deals Music Cutting Listening Ego Ears Musical Refuse Developing

Author:John Cage

“The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated discussion classes. I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn't sound dumb, and I hated how it was all just a game of trying to figure out what the teacher wanted to hear and then saying it. I'm in class, so teach me.”

Way Trying Wanted Games Sound Talking Class Teach Teacher Figures Listening Dumb Hated Discussion Phrases Notebook Labyrinth Spirals

Book:Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

“Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.”

Way Life Trying Success Choices Parent Born Rooms Education Responsibility Generations Listening Clothes Rain Bills Boring Forests Bored Closets Cleaning Parasites Bills To Pay

Author:Bill Gates

“The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.”

Thinking Way Persons Real Happens Found Differences Interesting Alive Willing Listening Enormous Radical Pairs Willingness Pretending Way Of Thinking Fluid Monologues Dueling

Author:Alan Alda

“…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.”

Source: The Plague

“And if someone felt that his life had been an utter failure, and that he himself was only one among millions of wholly unimportant people who could be replaced as easily as broken windowpanes, he would go and pour out his heart to Momo. And, even as he spoke, he would come to realize by some mysterious means that he was absolutely wrong: that there was only one person like himself in the whole world, and that, consequently, he mattered to the world in his own particular way. Such was Momo's talent for listening.”

People Ifs World Way Heart Mean Persons Whole Felt Realizing Millions Talent Particular Broken Listening Whole World Mysterious Spokes Replaced Unimportant Windowpane

Author:Michael Ende

“And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any shelf, opened at any page, in which I would start and finish anywhere, mid-sentence sometimes. Wuthering Heights ran into Emma, which gave way to The Eustace Diamonds, which faded into Hard Times, which ceded to The Woman in White. Fragments. It didn't matter. Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.”

Way Art Book Sometimes Matter Hard Hands Hours White Listening Pages Sentences Ran Height Sat Hard Times Diamond Shelves Fragments Faded Console Emma Completeness Limbo Lifelines

Book:The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

“But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper.”

Ifs Thinking Way Writing Persons Said My Own Doubt Humour Listening My Way

Book:Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar

Source: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar