The best lesson that I've learned from my mother is that she just never accepted no for an … - Liya Kebede

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The problem with listening, of course, is that we don't. There's too much noise going on in our heads, so we never hear anything. The inner conversation simply never stops. It can be our voice or whatever voices we want to supply, but it's a constant racket. In the same way we don't see, and in the same way we don't feel, we don't touch, we don't taste.

Liya Kebede

The best lesson that I've learned from my mother is that she just never accepted no for an answer and I think that's something that has stayed with me.

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