Heard Quotes - Page 33

• Leadership is about making people feel safe. When someone feels heard, they feel safe.

  Simon Sinek

  People, Safe, Feels

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• Sound doesn't always have to be heard. Sound can also be created by how a pattern is set up on a surface- how it moves across the surface, how light reflects the surface [and] can generate a feeling. Sound can also be through feeling, through color, through texture.

  Nick Cave

  Moving, Light, Color

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• Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.

  John Wycliffe

  Law, Tongue, Christ

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• I got a job at Metro and went in to see Louis Mayer, who told me he wanted me to be a producer. I said I wanted to write and direct. He said, "No, you have to produce first, you have to crawl before you can walk." Which is as good a definition of producing as I ever heard.

  Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  Jobs, Writing, Definitions

  "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies". Book by Leslie Halliwell, Harper Collins, p. 312, 2003.

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• I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown…let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered.

  Ned Kelly

  Wisdom, Hands, Law

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• I've heard Eric Clapner, ... I think it was a wonderful thing that Eric Clapner the musician did...So I think that's the wonderful part about it, but listen - I like Eric Clapner!

  Joycelyn Elders

  Stupid, Humorous, Thinking

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• I've heard that story about kids are high naturally, but I've seen kids that aren't high, kids who've had the high taken out of them.

  Cass Elliot

  Taken, Kids, Stories

  Interview with Jerry Hopkins in "Rolling Stone" Magazine No. 20, October 26, 1968.

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• Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.

  Benjamin Banneker

  Gun, Doors, Two

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• I heard the opening bar of 'Help' as I headed down Polk Street. Every single time I've heard that tune I've taken it as some message from God, a warning of things to come, a perfect description of my mashed-potato character

  Oscar Zeta Acosta

  Taken, Character, Perfect

  Oscar Zeta Acosta (2013). “Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo”, p.51, Vintage

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• We saw the children and the women with their babies and then I heard the poouff — the flame had broken through the thatched roof and there was a yellow- brown smoke column going up into the air. It didn't hit me all that much then, but when I think of it now — I slaughtered those people. I murdered them.

  John Keegan

  Baby, Children, Thinking

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• Let the voice of the people be heard!

  Albert Parsons

  Voice, People

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• Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing was heard of either of them again.

  Thomas R. Marshall

  Brother, Sea, Two

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• I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, the most mournful that ever ear heard. Mournful! That is saying nothing. It was a wind that had swept the fields of mortality for a hundred centuries.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Blow, Wind, Ears

  Thomas De Quincey (1852). “Confessions of an English Opium-eater: And Suspiria de Profundis”, p.175

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• I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

  Ornette Coleman

  Jazz, Broke, Wanted

  Esquire, January 2010.

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• The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. It is impossible to imagine this world being really civilized so long as so much nonsense survives. In even its highest forms religion embraces concepts that run counter to all common sense. It can be defended only by making assumptions and adopting rules of logic that are never heard of in any other field of human thinking.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Thinking, Long

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• The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any of the qualities that mark the civilized man: courage, dignity, incorruptibility, ease, confidence. They have vanity without pride, voluptuousness without taste, and learning without wisdom. Their fortitude, such as it is, is wasted upon puerile objects, and their charity is mainly a form of display.

  H. L. Mencken

  Pride, Men, Vanity

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• I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Too Late, Retrospect, Courses

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• The Celtic fans are very special and the club and players can be very proud of them. They are the best I have ever heard.

  Andres Iniesta

  Player, Special, Fans

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• What you people who weren't yet born can never know is what it meant to sleep in cities under silent falls of snow when all night long the only sounds you heard were dogs that parked at trains that passed so far away they took a short cut through your dreams and no one even woke. It was the war that changed that. It was. After the Great War for Civilization - sleep was different everywhere.

  Timothy Findley

  Dream, Dog, War

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• My son was staying with me, and we got up to watch it, just before they announced supporting actress, he came up and put his arm around me. I think it was like, 'Either way, mom, I still love you.' But then it was funny because I saw it. I saw my picture, and I heard them announce it, but I had to ask him, 'Did I really see that?' I wasn't sure I was seeing it, but he assured me that yes, I was nominated for the Academy Award. We just sort of cried a little bit.

  June Squibb

  Mom, Love You, Son

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• For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds.

  Loren Eiseley

  Loneliness, Night, Years

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.125, Vintage

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• He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect that many if not all of them were originally not grave at all but were antic, comic, often more than just a little shocking.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Years, Littles

  "Drama Team Handbook". Book by Alison Siewert, 2003.

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• That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust

  Robert Byrd

  Fall, Rights, Dust

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• I've often heard it said that there's a consensus of thousands of scientists on the global warming issue and that humans are causing a catastrophic change to the climate system. Well I am one scientist, and there are many that simply think that is not true.

  John Christy

  Thinking, Issues, Climate

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• At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk is that I heard ancient Africa in his music. When he played, it was like a ballet. He captured the sound of the universe. Monk could take a triad, a simple chord, and make it sound dissonant. I'm sure that element he had in his piano was part of the two years he spent traveling with his mother in gospel music in the tent shows.

  Randy Weston

  Music, Mother, Simple

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