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• I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.

  Emanuel Ax

  Eye

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• Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.

  Antonio Vieira

  Heart, Eye, People

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• I cant read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.

  Jane Horrocks

  Notes, Cant, Just Do It

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• I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.

  Kieran Culkin

  Eye, Shut Up

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• My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere.

  Steve Cropper

  Running, Digital, Mixing

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• The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

  Herodotus

  Believe, Eye, Men

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• "A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears."

  Woodrow Wyatt

  Life, Funny Love, Falling In Love

  To the Point (1981) p. 107

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• Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

  William Shakespeare

  Leadership, Inspiration, Men

  William Shakespeare, Robert Hapgood (1999). “Hamlet”, p.125, Cambridge University Press

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• I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Boxing, Guy

  "'I ain't the same person I was'". www.espn.com. June 28, 2004.

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• Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Animal, Car

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.118, Crown Archetype

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• Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

  Horace

  Gossip, Inquisitive, Rumours

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• Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

  William Shakespeare

  Tragedy, Cassius, Praise

  Julius Caesar act 3, sc. 2, l. 74 (1599)

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• Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

  Victoria Abril

  Eye

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• I like my hair long because I have really big ears.

  Josh Groban

  Hair, Long, Bigs

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• Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

  John Adams

  Eye, Simple, Imagination

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.79, UPNE

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• The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

  W. H. Auden

  Eye, Hands, Bored

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• Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.

  Robert Benchley

  Track, Trying, Skins

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• Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Success, Music

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4082, Delphi Classics

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• The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

  Francis Quarles

  Average, Reputation, Persons

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• There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.

  Lord Byron

  Music, Men, Earth

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Fifteenth”

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• The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Listening, Speech, Hearing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.293, Penguin

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• When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.49, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

  Singing, Conscious, Ability

  "Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments". Essay by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, en.wikiquote.org. 1753.

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• One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them.

  Dean Rusk

  Listening Ear, Way, Persuasion

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• It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

  Italo Calvino

  Communication, Voice, Stories

  "Invisible Cities". Book by Italo Calvino, ch. 9, 1974.

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