John Crawford Crosby quotes

“Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.”
-- John Crawford Crosby

#Brain Quotes #Listening Quotes #Ears Quotes

“Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.”

Source : "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.

“Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.”

“Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.”

“I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.”

“The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind. Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.”

“Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another's word for it. We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another's explanation our defilements will disappear. When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.”

“John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived!”

“A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.”

Source : Abba Solomon Eban (1999). “Diplomacy for the Next Century”, p.88, Yale University Press

“In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.”

“Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.”

Source : "De Falsa Legatione" by Aeschines, 149,