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«In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.»
Author: Max De Pree
| About:
Culture,
Leadership
| Keywords:
conch, cultures, listened, Pacific, shell, speaker
«Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.»
Author: Shirley Booth
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
actors, audience, listened, overhear, overheard, overhears, percent, performance
«Arthur: 'It's at times like this I wish I'd listened to my mother.' Ford : 'Why, what did she say?' Arthur: 'I don't know, I never listened.'»
«If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another»
«Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over animation. One can either see or be seen.»
«Christ of his gentleness, / Thirsting and hungering / Walked in the wilderness; / Soft words of grace he spoke / Unto lost desert-folk / That listened wondering.»
Author: Robert Graves
| Keywords:
desert, folk, gentleness, hungering, listened, spoke, the Wilderness, thirsting, walked, wilderness, wondering
«He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention»
«I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do»
Author: Margaret Thatcher
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
British, British people, broadcasts, Churchill, listened, the British, Winston Churchill