Old people are so wise. They’re like Tall Yodas.” — Jamie Tartt (pictured), Season 2 Episode 2: “Lavender” I like the freedom that Walt Whitman was using to play with and shape the American language. Especially in writing Tripmaster Monkey-I just lifted lines from Leaves of Grass. You would think they were modern Sixties' slang-"Trippers and Askers" and "Linguists and Contenders Surround Me"-all of that-"Song of the Open Road," "Song of Occupations"-I just took those for title headings for my book. I like the rhythm of his language and the freedom and the wildness of it. It's so American. And also his vision of a new kind of human being that was going to be formed in this country-although he never specifically said Chinese-ethnic Chinese also I'd like to think he meant all kinds of people. And also I love that throughout Leaves of Grass he always says "men and women," "male and female." He's so different from other writers of his time, and even of this time. Even a hundred years ago he always included women and he always used [those phrases], "men and women," "male and female."

I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.

Most Self-Aware Quote

Rupert might have moved up three levels and asked: How good of a dart player are you, Ted? Ted’s answer about his consistency of play—as a novice, expert or somewhere in between—may offer Rupert even more powerful information. Dialogic Organization Development From a dialogic perspective, change results from transformational conversations Rupert might have moved up one level of the pyramid and asked: When is the last time that you played darts, Ted? Ted’s answer about the recency of his dart skills may give Rupert powerful information. Whitman...a man full-blooded and brotherly, unselfconscious in his democracy and genuinely at ease with all kinds and classes. Rupert might have moved up two levels and asked: What’s your best score in a dart game, Ted? Ted’s best score may give Rupert more powerful information, even if Ted’s best score has little to do with his typical score.

It’s kinda like seeing Billy Joel perform live. Never disappoints.” — Ted Lasso, Season 1 Episode 9: “All Apologies”Comments on baseball in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (23 July 1846), as quoted in Walt Whitman Looks at the Schools (1950) by Florence Bernstein Freedman, p. 126-127 O Mother, to think that we are to have here soon what I have seen so many times, the awful loads and trains and boatloads of poor, bloody, and pale and wounded young men again; … it is dreadful when one thinks about it. I sometimes think over the sights I have myself seen: the arrival of the wounded after a battle, and the scenes on the field, too, and I can hardly believe my own recollections. What an awful thing war is! Mother, it seems not men but a lot of devils and butchers butchering each other. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) [ edit ] Quotes reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). I was thinking this globe enough, till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.

It’s Shelley and you know it, you dithering kestrel!” — Nate (pictured, with Ted Lasso), Season 2 Episode 5: “Rainbow” That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world. What Is a Real Conversation? There is more to conversation than just talking or exchanging messages Curiosity: a consideration, or space, that it might not mean what you think it means! (Note: ‘might not’ is my kind, polite way of saying DOES NOT.) And the mere possibility that it might not (DOES NOT) mean what you think it means, is your opportunity to…This has become attributed to both Walt Whitman and Helen Keller, but has not been found in either of their published works, and variations of the quote are listed as a proverb commonly used in both the US and Canada in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1992), edited by Wolfgang Mieder, Kelsie B. Harder and Stewart A. Kingsbury. Ralph Waldo Emerson, in a letter to Whitman, thanking him for a copy of Leaves of Grass (21 July 1855) After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.”

I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which yet must have had a long foreground somewhere, for such a start. I rubbed my eyes a little, to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is a sober certainty. It has the best merits, namely, of fortifying and encouraging...

Second Most Self-Aware Quote

Meetings and Conversations Serve Two Purposes There is a second purpose to any meeting which we often overlook During a scene in the Apple TV show "Ted Lasso," the title character, played by Jason Sudeikis, reflects on a quote supposedly written by 19th century American poet Walt Whitman that he once saw painted on a wall. "Be curious, not judgmental." While that simple statement provided some guidance to the character, it also left him a little misinformed, as Whitman never wrote these words. The New Science of Building Great Teams ** 35% of variation in team performance is accounted for by the amount of face-to-face communication Yes, curiosity is listening intently, listening deeply, listening beyond the words. Judgement is filling in the gaps, not questioning anything, focussing on the words alone. It’s whole-hearted AND laugh out loud funny, wholesome enough while also incorporating judicious use of the word ‘f**k’. Ted Lasso is about a hot and thoughtful man, who has the face, moustache and wardrobe of a handsome Ned Flanders but the wisdom, heart and quotability of Brené Brown. The initial premise seems a bit average: Ted Lasso is an American comedy (meh) with a male lead (double meh) about sport (triple meh) but manages to transcend all of these things.