Feargal Quinn quotes

“Your business will look totally different from your customer's viewpoint, so jump the counter and start to see things from their perspective.”
-- Feargal Quinn

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“Genuine listening ability is one of the few true forms of competitive advantage.”
-- Feargal Quinn

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“You can't do business sitting on your ... armchair!”
-- Feargal Quinn

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“One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to. And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse. When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person, elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.”

“Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions”

“Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.”

“The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.”

“Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.”

Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book Three: Being and the Meaning of Life”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

“I don't look at myself as suffering.”

“Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress.”

“There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.”

“The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.43, Harvard University Press

“Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.”