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I had to learn to do everything because I couldn't find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself. ↗

— Ray Harryhausen

#because #doing #eighty #everything #find

Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#certain #civil #experience #follow #formalities

What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him. ↗

— Roy Haynes

#grandson #him #i #listen #tell

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#any #arranged #collected #could #delay

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#capitalist #creativity #darwinian #only

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#deal #great #great deal #i #i have learned

Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#art #audiences #aware #completely #disappeared

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#always #business #everything #how #i

Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#check #dealing #does #get #government

What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court. ↗

— Anita Hill

#everyone #forum #getting #i #listening