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A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, read more
A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with. - Guide to Good Leadership.
"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast,"
And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast.
"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast,"
And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast.
As the longfingered sun
reaches out to touch
a cloistered trillium
or a lake trembles in
the light of read more
As the longfingered sun
reaches out to touch
a cloistered trillium
or a lake trembles in
the light of moon and stars
so can a poet's long rainbow
of words
play our heartstrings from afar.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn read more
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips read more
Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of read more
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Music must rank as the highest of the arts -- more than any other, it ministers to human welfare.
Music must rank as the highest of the arts -- more than any other, it ministers to human welfare.
Rugged the breast that music cannot tame.
Rugged the breast that music cannot tame.
