There isn't much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren't really living without it.

—Gordon Atkinson

More quotations from Gordon Atkinson

Knowing that there is worse pain doesn't make present pain hurt any less.

—Gordon Atkinson

One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.

—Gordon Atkinson

External signs of wealth and success are often cheap storefronts that hide internal mediocrity or even incompetence.

—Gordon Atkinson

The human heart cannot love the whole world. And if you try to put the whole world into your heart, you will eventually lose touch with your own humanity.

—Gordon Atkinson

Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.

—Gordon Atkinson

More quotations tagged with “conversation”

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

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Conversation is food for the soul.

—Mexican Proverb

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

—Jonathan Swift

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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