Few people. . . have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.
A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.
Theatre is very much concerned with the society, with the social situation. . . A theatre piece of itself, demands a confrontation with the audience. It demands that you connect with people; it demands a collective and social effort with the company and later with the audience.
I'm not concerned with noise because I'm playing the long game.
I don't care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are.
You're my brother. " "Those words don't mean anything where we're concerned. We aren't human. Their rules don't apply to us. Stupid laws about what DNA can be mixed with what. Hypocritical, really, considering. We're already experiments.
Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.
In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.
I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.
I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.
I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.
As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.
As far as the nuclear is concerned, I agree. It is the single greatest threat that this country has.
And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married. . . as far as I'm concerned.
A book for everyone concerned about our common future.
Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.
And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
If you have team spirit you can even beat better teams. As far as team sport is concerned China might need a change in attitude in comparison to the one in table tennis.
When I'm [playing] a character, I can look at it and know it's not me and not be concerned with how it looks.
One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.