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I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#realistic #inspirational

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art. ↗

— Charles Rosen

#also #art #attention #carefully #classical

Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists. ↗

— Thorne Smith

#am #america #freely #greatest #hair

May you hear the voice of wisdom. Listening, may you act with trust. ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#healing #inner-guidance #inspiration #listening #wisdom

Be in today, believe in today because yesterday has gone and tomorrow will be bright from today. ↗

— Vishal Bhojwani

#inspirational #realistic #inspirational

Elizabeth Bachinsky, Darren Bifford, Jason Camelot, Rachel Cyr, Tara Flanagan, Lilly Fiorentino, John Goldbach, David McGimpsey, Evan Munday, Sachiko Murakami, Ian Orti, Marisa Grizenko, Christina Palassio, Mike Spry, Darren Wershler. ↗

— Jon Paul Fiorentino

#disgusting #humanistic-individualism #inspirational #light #namedropping

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#best #differences #learn #listen #listening

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#alone #anything #commanding #ever #excellent

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'. ↗

— Alfred Brendel

#listen #listening #silent #talking #inspirational

Life is good, and there's no reason to think it won't be--right up until the moment when everything explodes into a fireball of tiny, unrecognizable fragments, or it all goes skidding sideways, through the guardrail, over the embankment, and down the mountain. This will happen (and probably more than once). ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#inspirational #realistic #humor