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Keith Jarrett Quotes

You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think there's an awareness of spaces or it wouldn't look like a tree to them.

Keith Jarrett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 8, 1945

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Tree People Think You Look Know

I'm typically not a heels person.

Jenny Lewis

Person Heels

Online education and technology are doubtless going to change how we learn in the years ahead. Remote learning is inexpensive and brings down the cost of near-universal access.

Andrew Yang

Education Change Learning Technology

I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.

John Cassavetes

Man Think Worst Interest Fellow Man

The whole thing about writing a play is that it's all about controlling the flow of information traveling from the stage to the audience. It's a stream of information, but you've got your hand on the tap, and you control in which order the audience receives it and with what emphasis, and how you hold it all together.

Tom Stoppard

Together Writing Control Information

I always get very fit if I'm going away filming for two months in Afghanistan or wherever.

Ross Kemp

Two Always Afghanistan Wherever Get

Without a doubt, absolutely, a woman will be a president, and probably sooner rather than later. I am excited about that, and if what I did serves as a steppingstone for another woman down the course, I am very grateful to have had that chance.

Michele Bachmann

Grateful Woman I Am Chance Doubt

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Jonathan Swift

Good Art Best People Easy Manners

It's not cool to be star-struck.

Dominic Holland

Cool

To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing.

Chris Pratt

Amazing Go Pretty Oscars

One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.

Bob Riley

Believe Make A Difference You Person

'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants.

Annie Dillard

Animal Ugly Plants World Think Word

There is a psychological and physical toll from the pressure to recreate ourselves in midlife. To survive as workers, we have to deny, on some level, the realities of our bodies - bodies that age and give birth.

Alissa Quart

Age Survive Pressure Birth Workers