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“Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.”

Mind Stills Sound Pay Attention Silence Opening Pay Attention Opening Up Portal Silence Is Golden

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Say did you read in the papers about a bunch of Women up in British Columbia as a protest against high taxes, sit out in the open naked, and they wouldent put their clothes on? The authorities finally turned a Sprayer that you use on trees, on 'em. That may lead into quite a thing. Woman comes into the tax office nude, saying I won't pay. Well they can't search her and get anything. It sounds great. How far is it to British Columbia?”

Wells May Use Sound Pay Tree Taxes Office Authority Paper Clothes British Bunch Naked Ems Protest Papers Columbia British Columbia High Taxes

Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

“The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot.”

Source: The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896

“coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that the best scientific prose should sound like a non-human author addressing a mechanical reader. ... We injure ourselves when we fail to make our discipline as clear and vibrant as we can to students - prospective scientists - and to the public who pay the taxes.”

Source: Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age

“I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.”

Thinking Writing Believe Ideas Order I Believe Sound Pay Attention Identity Universal Dramatic Truthful Universality Dramatic Writing

Book:Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?

Source: Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?

“Double-check your voice mail message. Listen to your on-hold words and music. Write welcoming scripts for your telephone team. Pay attention to the music in your office and lobby areas. Make sure what your customers hear sounds good.”

Writing Culture Sound Voice Pay Attention Team Office Messages Areas Scripts Customers Checks Welcome Pay Attention Mail Telephones Service Culture Words And Music

Author:Ron Kaufman

“My mother once said "If you don't pay attention to age, then it won't pay attention to you." And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don't buy it.”

Ifs Said Age Mother Sound Pay Attention Nice Pay Attention

Author:Cher

“Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.”

Kind Two Country Three Sound Pay Attention Audience Rocks Beats Historical Western Folks Heavy Rap Pay Attention Metals Cents Cult Heavy Metal Country Western

Author:Al Stewart

“Your solution for a customer has to be either amazingly valuable to someone who will pay an enormous amount of money for it or has to be valuable to an enormous number of people who pay a small amount. And also the person you're talking to-especially if you want to raise capital or raise support-has to personally say, "I want that. I like that. That sounds really great. I want that for myself."”

People Ifs Want Persons Sound Numbers Pay Talking Support Amount Solutions Raises Valuable Customers Enormous Really Great Small Amounts

Author:Brian Tracy

“In Russia no one is surprised when an official accepts a bribe while at the same time portraying the state as some sacred entity to which the bourgeois should pay homage. This all sounds absurd. But for Russians it is completely normal.”

Should States Sound Pay Accepting Normal Sacred Russia Absurd Officials Entity Bourgeois Homage Bribe Portraying

Author:Vladimir Sorokin

“The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.”

Sound Voice Freedom Pay Opinion Freedom Of Speech

Author:Adlai Stevenson I