Hearing Quotes - Page 24

• I try never to hear what another person thinks of me. I enjoy life a lot more when I spend as little time as possible hearing or thinking about what other people think about me. I go to the needs behind the thoughts. Then I'm in a different world.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Thinking, People

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• It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Real, Knowing, Tree

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• Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. “Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it’s always invigorating,” Nemeth says. “It wakes us right up.”

  Jonah Lehrer

  Views, California, Perspective

  "Groupthink: The brainstorming myth" by Jonah Lehrer, www.newyorker.com. January 30, 2012.

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• When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, thats fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Being Positive, Racist, Sides

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• The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No.

  Bob Barr

  England, Generations, Damage

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• I can find something between sight and hearing and I can produce a fugue in colors as Bach has done in music.

  Frantisek Kupka

  Sight, Color, Done

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• Women are more verbal than men. That's why when you see an elderly couple together, it's always the man who has the hearing aid.

  Jeff Stilson

  Couple, Men, Elderly

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• I'm talking from the point of view of the States, we tend to assassinate people like Jesus, or if we don't we simply marginalise them. Oprah would have all those who think they are Messiah on her show, and we'd have six people who all claimed to be the Messiah, and we'd have got rid of Jesus and laughed him out of town. So as long as the Jesus that I'm hearing is there, I don't find him very comfortable.

  John Dominic Crossan

  Jesus, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.

  Paul McCartney

  Beautiful, Song, Powerful

  "COVER STORY : Ob-la-di, Life Goes On : Paul McCartney was crushed by the Beatles' dissolution in 1970, but he's singing a different tune now (about and with the group)". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. November 12, 1995.

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• I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative... And for me, when I'm making music, it's all in my head, and all those influences in my head. So if something comes to me that's a reference from a different genre then people are used to hearing from me, I'm not afraid to go there with it.

  John Legend

  People, Hip Hop, Soul

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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• I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record forever. You're mixing it and you can really just over-think everything. I'll go back and forth all the time.

  Kurt Vile

  Song, Thinking, Forever

  "Exclusive: Kurt Vile on the Paranoia and Process Behind His New Record". Interview with Marah Eakin, music.avclub.com. July 21, 2015.

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• Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character.

  Alec Sulkin

  Children, Character, Sound

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2012

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• In consigning Elian back to slavery without a hearing, this administration is setting back the cause of freedom -- in this country and in Cuba.

  David Limbaugh

  Country, Cuba, Slavery

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• We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had one of the top murder rates in the country in those days, I grew up hearing about how dangerous New York was.

  Philipp Meyer

  Country, New York, Funny Things

  Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.

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• With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while theyre going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.

  Oliver Sacks

  Imagination, Perception, Brain

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• Hearing is the motion of molecules; sound is a wave in the atmosphere; solidity is the characteristic of spatial juxtaposition of atoms; smell is something given off by a body, rather than something belonging to a body.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Smell, Atmosphere, Sound

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• I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Kids, Thinking, People

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. November 13, 2009.

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• While Roberts wanted to give the impression he respected the right to privacy and the precedent of Roe vs. Wade, his answers look dangerously similar to the responses (Associate Justice) Clarence Thomas gave senators during his confirmation hearings 14 years ago.

  Nancy Keenan

  Years, Giving, Justice

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• With any kind of physical test, I don't know what it is, I always seem to get competitive. Remember when you were in school and they'd do those hearing tests? And you'd really be listening hard, you know? I wanted to do unbelievable on the hearing test. I wanted them to come over to me after and go, 'We think you may have something close to super-hearing. What you heard was a cotton ball touching a piece of felt. We're sending the results to Washington, we'd like you to meet the President.'

  Jerry Seinfeld

  School, Thinking, Touching

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• I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.

  Mavis Staples

  Hands, Want, Jewelry

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• I don't think the people today who start hearing voices, stop eating and sleeping, and run amuck are likely to get good treatment. Having more knowledge, better diagnostic capabilities, better medications with fewer side effects, can't make up for the fact that most patients are being treated by doctors, therapists, and hospitals, who are operating under constraints and incentives that reward non-treatment, non-hospitalization, non-therapy, non-follow-up, non-care. Lost to follow-up is the best outcome a health insurer can hope for.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Running, Sleep, Thinking

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• Fidel Castro declared that a robot would do a better job as president than Barack Obama. After hearing this, Mitt Romney thanked Castro for his endorsement.

  Conan O'Brien

  Jobs, President, Robots

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• In a new videotape message, Texas Gov. Rick Perry urges his supporters to follow him on 'Tweeter.' After hearing about it, John McCain laughed and said, “What an idiot! It's 'The Tweeter.''

  Conan O'Brien

  Texas, Messages, Idiot

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• Is there a wrong way to say "I don't know"? Yes. When we declare ignorance, it should be a) honest and b) in the spirit of opening ourselves up to hearing, to learning, to receiving. When we say "I don't know" under these conditions, the words can forge connection, healing, growth. But when we resist or disavow knowledge, when we profess ignorance as a way of donning armor and evading accountability, then we make a mockery of those words, and we rupture connections not only with others but within ourselves, within our souls.

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Healing, Ignorance, Accountability

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• The news media reported the $250 million as an unthinkably huge waste of money and proclaimed that something was wrong with NASA. The result was an investigation and a congressional hearing. Not to defend failure, but $250 million is not much more than the cost to produce Kevin Costner's film flop Waterworld.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Media, Cost, News

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