A Quote by Anthony Trollope

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

Anthony Trollope

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Anthony Trollope
English - Novelist
April 24, 1815 - December 6, 1882

we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.

Beatrice Webb

We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.

Anthony Trollope

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Dale Carnegie

Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the oral tradition, magical stories were enjoyed by listeners young and old alike, while literary fairy tales (including most of the tales that are best known today) were published primarily for adult readers until the 19th century.

Terri Windling

A well-functioning democracy has a culture of free speech, not simply legal protection of free speech. It encourages independence of mind. It imparts a willingness to challenge prevailing opinion through both words and deeds. Equally important, it encourages a certain set of attitudes in listeners, one that gives a respectful hearing to those who do not embrace the conventional wisdom. In a culture of free speech, the attitude of listeners is no less important than that of speakers.

Cass Sunstein

Fashion is a dream. It's difficult, and there are many aspects of fashion that are very difficult, but if you love it like I do, because I really have a passion, now, for fashion, it's not easy, but nothing is easy in life.

Carolina Herrera

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Confucius

To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, statements or declarations. True listeners no longer have an inner need to make their presence known. They are free to receive, welcome, to accept.

Henri Nouwen

The long history of conversations that family members share contributes not only to how listeners interpret words but also to how speakers choose them.

Deborah Tannen

It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And even more difficult for a woman if she's lesbian. It`s very distressing to me that that should be the case. The film industry is very old fashioned in California.

Ian Mckellen

Generally, TED speakers are believers in the scientific method.

Steven Levy

It is always difficult, if you win against City, everybody expects it to be an easy win, but it will not be easy. It will be very difficult.

Emre Can

I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Ja Rule

I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.

Nicolas Roeg

Multilateralism is not an easy option. We're going to find that the world is very difficult. And relationships between America and the rest of the world are very difficult.

Chris Patten

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