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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge-and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
- Steven Spielberg
- Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
- Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)
- So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.
- Rita Rudner
- Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
- Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973), Reflections on America, 1958
- Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
- Victoria Holt
- I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)
- A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Never promise more than you can perform.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
- Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
- A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Make voyages! - Attempt them! - there's nothing else...
- Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983), Camino Real
- Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
- Sidney J. Harris
- Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.
- Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill
- Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.
- Roy M. Goodman
- Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
- Saadi (1184 - 1291)
- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
- David Letterman (1947 - )
- My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002
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