Hearing Quotes - Page 22

• Instead of hearing, "Oh, he's good," I'd rather hear, "Wow, you changed my feelings today, you made me feel different."

  Robert Glasper

  Feelings, Different, Wow

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's when most of the guests have gone that the party really gets interesting - peering under the table and into the bath to see who's stayed and what shape they're in. It is then that those who are still conscious divulge things you had not known before: sometimes about themselves, sometimes about other people and sometimes about you. It does not necessarily make pleasant hearing but it is always fascinating. In the relaxed atmosphere, in the wake of the hubbub, they unwind and grow confidential - nay, indiscreet. If they are not already, they end up as your closest friends.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Party, Interesting, People

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• Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Keenness, Revive

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “The Conservationist”, p.112, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When will talkers refrain from evil speaking? When listeners refrain from evil hearing. At present there are many so credulous of evil, they will receive suspicions and impressions against persons whom they don't know, from a person whom they do know--an authority good for nothing.

  Augustus William Hare

  Evil, Authority, Refrain

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.185

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• When children ask you questions about gray hairs, and wrinkles in the face, and sighs that have no words, and smiles too bright to be carved upon the radiant face by the hands of hypocrisy--when they ask you about kneeling at the altar, speaking into the vacant air, and uttering words to an unseen and in an invisible Presence--when they interrogate you about your great psalms, and hymns, and anthem-bursts of thankfulness, what is your reply to these? Do not be ashamed of the history. Keep steadily along the line of fact. Say what happened to you, and magnify God in the hearing of the inquirer.

  Joseph Parker

  Children, Hymns, Wrinkles

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• That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.

  Susan Glaspell

  War, Long, Goes On

  Susan Glaspell (2008). “Plays”

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• High hearts are never long without hearing some new call, some distant clarion of God, even in their dreams; and soon they are observed to break up the camp of ease, and start on some fresh march of faithful service.

  James Martineau

  Dream, Heart, Long

  James Martineau (1858). “Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses”, p.306

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• Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria or your own unfeminine inadequacy. Women have learned to submit to pain by hearing authority figures - doctors, priests, psychiatrists - tell us that what we feel is not pain.

  Naomi Wolf

  Pain, Real, Believe

  "The Beauty Myth". Book by Naomi Wolf, 1990.

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• Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore.

  Scott Weiss

  People, Leader, Way

  "Treating the Dysfunctional CEO". scott.a16z.com. December 6, 2011.

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• It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing.

  Cilla Black

  Beautiful, Fun, Pain

  "Cilla Black blames hearing problems on damage done by acoustics of Liverpool's Cavern Club" by Danny Walker, www.mirror.co.uk. July 23, 2014.

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• To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely with this universe. You feel profoundly rooted in it and connected with it. You feel, in other words, that the whole energy, which expresses itself in the galaxies, is intimate. It is not something to which you are a stranger, but it is that with which you, whatever it is, are intimately bound up. That in your seeing, your hearing, your talking, your thinking, your moving, you express that which it is that moves the sun and other stars.

  Alan Watts

  Stars, Moving, Thinking

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• I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.

  Antonia Fraser

  Clever, Men, Brain

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• How is faith to endure, O God, when you allow all this scraping and tearing on us? You have allowed rivers of blood to flow, mountains of suffering to pile up, sobs to become humanity's song--all without lifting a finger that we could see. You have allowed bonds of love beyond number to be painfully snapped. If you have not abandoned us, explain yourself.We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God.

  Nicholas Wolterstorff

  Song, Love Is, Sight

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• When I breathe down my nose to say how do you do to a horse, it can hear that breath at anything up to twenty yards, for horses have the most acute sense of hearing.

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Horse, Twenties, Yards

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• Careful listening to current country and western and rock music with the help of an interpreter for coded phrases shows that young people are hearing a constant stream of messages about getting high, feeling good, going on trips, and using drugs of all kinds with all methods.

  Virgil Miller Newton

  Country, Rocks, People

  "The Teenage Drug Epidemic". El Paso Physician, Volume 6, 1983.

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• Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening

  Pauline Oliveros

  Listening

  Pauline Oliveros (2005). “Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice”, p.21, iUniverse

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• The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.

  Harriet Monroe

  People, Poet, Grants

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• an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live.

  Phyllis Rose

  Promise, Needs, Autobiography

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• There is nothing so difficult to describe as happiness. Whether some feeling of envy enters into the mind upon hearing of it, or whether it is so calm, so unassuming, so little ostentatious in itself, that words give an imperfect idea of it, I know not. It is easier to enjoy it, than define it. ... and is oftener found at home, when home has not been embittered by dissensions, suspicions and guilt, than any where else upon earth. Yes, it is in home and in those who watch there for us.

  Lady Caroline Lamb

  Happiness, Home, Ideas

  Lady Caroline Lamb (2009). “The Works of Lady Caroline Lamb: Glenarvon (1816)”

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• My pet peeve is hearing a knock on the bathroom door followed by the familiar words, 'What are you doing in there?

  Karen Scalf Linamen

  Doors, Pet, Bathroom

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• Troubles, even the dullest, are always mildly interesting at the first hearing.

  Celia Fremlin

  Interesting, Firsts, Trouble

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• If I were in the President's place, I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood
  hearing Mrs. Armey, standing over me, saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'

  Dick Armey

  Lying, Blood, President

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• I'm hearing in youth sports where you're not allowed to post scores of games online; everybody's gotta get a trophy. I mean, that's ridiculous. If you're a winner, you're a winner and you get a trophy. If you got second place, you don't get anything.

  Carli Lloyd

  Sports, Mean, Games

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I am sort of proud that I think radio has become a dominant influence in shaping public opinion. Good radio paints the picture for the audience. The audience has to be actively involved. Sometimes, in television, you can get lulled into sleep watching the picture, not listening to what you're hearing.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sleep, Thinking, Listening

  "Transcript: Rush Limbaugh on 'Your World'". "Your World with Neil Cavuto,", Fox News Show, www.foxnews.com. February 9, 2006.

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• My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I came along and my father said, "Oh, let Peter enjoy himself." What she did was leave musical instruments all around the house. Whistles, marimbas, squeeze boxes, a piano and organ. By age six or seven, I could bang out a simple tune on almost anything. I developed a good ear, so I didn't learn to read music until I taught myself at age eighteen, 'cause I was hearing so many good songs I couldn't possibly remember them all.

  Pete Seeger

  Mother, Song, Brother

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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