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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#educators #experience #more #observation #persons

You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you. ↗

— Charles Mengel Allen

#friends #get #interested #make #month

I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#commercial #everyone #good #i #influenced

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space. ↗

— Ira Glass

#coined #enough #into #long #radio

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#been #cannot #completely #critic #established

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person. ↗

— Alan Alda

#being #changed #listening #other #person

As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating. ↗

— Emily Watson

#camera #followed #formal #having #liberating

I've never tried to manipulate my image. ↗

— Alan Alda

#image #manipulate #never #tried

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.' ↗

— Alan Alda

#american #chile #died #filming #frontiers

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas. ↗

— Alan Alda

#clear #freshness #hang #ideas #life