#list

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind. ↗

— George A. Smith

#conscience #inclination #listening #lives #mind

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#be real #field #gathered #his #humanity

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#ground #his #human #human nature #must

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#historian #humanity #like #look #must

I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations. ↗

— Huston Smith

#big #big bang #civilizations #eight #god

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#between #books #find #go #i

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. ↗

— Lillian Smith

#asking #asking questions #die #learning #listening

I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#i #learn #listening #musicians #practice

The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it. ↗

— Ice T

#back #best #best way #get #kick

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#aesthetic #allows #doctrine #doubt #doubts