#tended

There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#attentive #become #benefits #created #feel

The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case. ↗

— William Whewell

#becomes #case #class #coherent #contained

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target! ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#cia #earmarks #everybody #except #had

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife. ↗

— Barack Obama

#baffling #completely #extended #fact #fame

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended. ↗

— Barack Obama

#about #absolute #absolute power #chambers #either

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. ↗

— Frederick Law Olmsted

#arbitrary #arbitrary power #destroy #humane #irresistibly

You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation. ↗

— Marc Racicot

#correlate #correlation #find #hard #here

The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#catch #down #english #had #hit

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective. ↗

— Richard Schickel

#consequences #law #pause #permitting #perspective

Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form. ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#anime #art #art form #features #form