“Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.” MenPersonsWishRoomsWorstHe ManListeningTerribleConversationEncountersListeners Book:all the year round Source: all the year round
“I tremble for our world, where, in the smallest ways, we find it impossible, as Marshall Hodgson enjoined, to find room for the other in our minds. If we cannot accommodate a viewpoint in a friend without resorting to unkindness, how can we hope to heal the terrible problems of our planet? I no longer think that any principle or opinion is worth anything if it makes you unkind or intolerant.” IfsThinkingWorldWayMindProblemRoomsOpinionPrinciplesImpossiblePlanetsTerribleHealOur WorldSmallestOur PlanetViewpointsAccommodateUnkindUnkindness Book:The Spiral Staircase Source: The Spiral Staircase
“What a denial of our humanity that at the centers of power, where decisions are made, there is no room for nurturing, for love, and children. There is more to life than the 'inhuman' work place. It is terrible that many men do not know that: it is a tragedy if women follow them.” IfsKnowsMenChildrenMadeHumanityWorkDecisionRoomsBusinessTerribleOfficeTragedyDenialNurturingInhumanMore To LifeWork Place Author:Dora Russell
“By letting go of dieting, I free up mental and emotional room. I have more space, I can move. The pursuit of another, elusive body, the body someone else says I should have, is a terrible distraction, a side-tracking that might have lasted my whole life long. By letting myself go, I go places.” ShouldLongI CanWholeBodyMightMovingSidesSpaceRoomsEmotionalTerribleLetting GoShould HaveWhole LifePursuitDistractionLong LifeElusiveDietingTracking Author:Sallie Tisdale
“I can't stand those people, speakers in a room, they say this all the time, "If I can just help one person in this room, I've done my job." You have an audience of 500 people and your standard of success is one person? That's terrible. If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something.” PeopleIfsPersonsI CanDoneHelpingJobsRoomsAudienceTerribleStandardsSpeakers Author:Simon Sinek
“During the course of the year a number of ideas just come up automatically. I could be walking down the street. Or shaving. An idea will hit me and I'll write it down. Then, when I'm ready to write, I check my little matchbooks and napkins and find that it is good or it's pretty terrible. There are other times when I don't have any ideas and I'll go into a room and close the door and I sit and sweat it out for a day or a month and eventually I come up with [something].” WritingYearsLittlesIdeasCoursesRoomsNumbersDoorsStreetsReadyMonthsTerribleWalkingCome UpChecksSweatShavingNapkins Author:Woody Allen
“I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times.” ThinkingKindFilmParentRoomsTerribleEverydayMotherhoodHeroismHymnsTerrible Times Author:Emma Donoghue