Listen Fewer Quotes

#1. So many birds sitting around, on a dead wire, a bare branch, a cold ground, a drifting seashore; never realizing the glory in their wings and where it can take them, nor the envy as we look on them.

Anthony Liccione

#2. In her inestimable audacity, Julia was the catalyst in my life for something beautiful. I hadn't anticipated her - hadn't even wanted her, truthfully - but there she was. A little something extra that made all the difference in the world.

Cathleen Falsani

#3. The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It dispels myths promulgated by both friends and foes and persuasively traces the conflicting paths that American thinkers indebted to Strauss have taken.

William Galston

#4. Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.

George Washington Carver

#5. Don't listen to any advice from anybody who has fewer published bestsellers than you, or anybody with more bestsellers than you. Or anybody with the exact same number of bestsellers as you. Don't listen to any advice at all, even this advice I'm telling you right now.

Dan Alatorre

#6. Ted Kennedy's achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.

Adam Clymer

#7. Remember, as each man and woman is a microcosm reflecting the larger natural world, so healing of the self is also a healing for the world. As above, so below.

Brian Froud

#8. Write first. Worry about getting an agent or publisher later. Write it first. Prove you can do it and then others will listen. Tons of people talk about books they want to write. Far fewer are those who actually complete that vision. Don't be a talker.

Po Bronson

#9. We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

Victoria Osteen

#10. Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.

Beth Moore

#11. Snooty knew measly talked muchly.

Toba Beta

#12. No one knows who I am ... that I am she ... that she is me.

L. H. Cosway

#13. Haven't we all, as time continues, found that we must be kind to ourselves and listen to our thoughts, because fewer and fewer of those remain who know what is most real to us?

Lan Samantha Chang

#14. I wouldn't say that I'm a jack-of-all-trades, master of none, but I wouldn't say that I'm brilliant at any.

Noel Clarke

#15. He who is wise is steps away from riches.
He who is loving is steps away from God.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. G-d is alive. Magic is afoot. G-d is afoot. Magic is alive.

Leonard Cohen

#17. A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.

Jonas Salk

#18. I think that there are a lot of great studio people but the fewer voices in my head when I'm getting out a draft, the better. I just get it out and then I'll listen to all manner of good ideas. And that's what happens, too, when I'm touring and doing a character on stage.

Mike Myers

#19. The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper.

Chuck Palahniuk

#20. A man cannot own a woman, cousin. He can only ... He can only love her.

Catherine Anderson

#21. Pull - don't push. Investigate - don't present. Probe - don't pitch. Ask - don't assume. How? Talk less - listen more. Make fewer statements - ask more questions.

Darren Hardy