Vaqif Esedov Quotes & Sayings

Listening is the new prospecting. — John Jantsch

Find peace in your heart but more important ... find peace in your soul. — Timothy Pina

When I use people I know, all of my instincts seem to go dead, and if I'm getting anywhere near myself then I can't do it. It's actually a real weakness! I hate writing personal essays, I don't think I'm especially good at it. I like just encountering [my characters], discovering them. I love the escape of just being surrounded by all these people who are nothing like people I know. But I don't find it hard to be in the middle of a different life, with a different set of habits and way of thinking and talking. That seems to come easily to me. — Jennifer Egan

I'm aware of the- the fact that people elsewhere in the world think differently from us. I can sort of see us, us Americans with their eyes. And not all that I see is- is attractive. I see an insular people who are- are insensitive to foreign sensibilities, who are lazy, obese, complacent and increasingly perplexed as to why we are losing our place in the world to people who are more dynamic than us and more disciplined — Edmund Morris

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's. — Caroline B. Cooney

In neither taste nor precision is any man's practice a court of last appeal, for writers all, both great and small, are habitual sinners against the light; and their accuser is cheerfully aware that his own work will supply ... many 'awful examples' ... — Ambrose Bierce

In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence. — African Spir

Mrs. Moffat had taken her hand, for comfort, and they had sat there in silence for a while. Sometimes it seemed as if the world itself was broken, that there was something wrong with all of us, something broken in such a way that it might not be put together again; but the holding of hands, human hand in human hand, could help, could make the world seem less broken. — Alexander McCall Smith

It's much more fun as an actor, as well. If everything is on the page and you're spoon-feeding an audience you feel like your job is merely to say the words clearly because the structure of the story will take care of itself. — Tom Hughes

Aside for the dream of writing the core X-Men team, I think I would love to write an Excalibur book. — Cullen Bunn

It's hard for a man to understand a woman because a man just desires her; but women, most of them anyway, desire desire. — Walter Mosley

The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others. — Fulton J. Sheen