Quotes of Magnetic - somelinesforyou

“ Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. ”

- Karl Menninger

“ Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. ”

- Joseph Cook

“ Press close bare-bosomed night — press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! Night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! Mad naked summer night. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano. ”

- Kevin Kline

“ The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good. ”

- Catherine Ponder

“ Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. I was amused to see that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system… ”

- John R. Searle

“ Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created. ”

- Brenda Ueland

“ All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars… ”

- Gerard de Nerval

“ Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people — that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. ”

- Peter Drucker
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