Hearing Quotes - Page 30

• Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in a certain degree, and must be used and governed with such caution as we eat and drink and refresh ourselves, or they will bring forth in us the fruits of intemperance.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Reading

  William Law (1802). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians, to which is Added Some Account of the Author and Three Letters to a Friend”, p.27

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• By seeing the beauty in every face we lift others into their wisest self and increase the chances of hearing a synchronistic message.

  James Redfield

  Spiritual, Self, Faces

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• Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.

  Leverett Saltonstall

  Home, Naps, Should Have

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• I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I'm trying to sleep.

  Elizabeth George

  Sleep, Night, Voice

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• Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.

  John Locke

  Art, Memories, Practice

  John Locke, James Augustus St. John (1872). “Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understanding”, p.37

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• The Indians , whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and civility in their discourses and conversation, giving one another a fair silent hearing till they have quite done; and then answering them calmly, and without noise or passion. And if it be not so in this civiliz'd part of the world, we must impute it to a neglect in education, which has not yet reform'd this antient piece of barbarity amongst us.

  John Locke

  Passion, Giving, Reform

  John Locke (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)”, p.1542, Delphi Classics

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• The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.

  Lord Byron

  Home, Two, People

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• I love being in the studio and singing on stage and performing. It's so much fun. I love every second of it - and I love the way you get to show who you are. I love the way fans are really passionate around the world, so I adore performing and hearing people sing along in different countries.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Country, Fun, Love Is

  "Vanessa Hudges, Ashley Tisdale and Monique Coleman Spill All on High School Musical 3: Senior Year". Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment Interview, movieweb.com. February 16, 2009.

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• I think ultimately, people are selfish in that department [blues], in a good way - the reason we're attracted to art is because it somehow reflects us. And I think, ultimately, we're a tribal people by nature. We're not individualistic. We almost like to hear that there's other people in a worse state than us. Sometimes even more than we like hearing there are people in better states than us.

  Glen Hansard

  Art, Selfish, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You just can't get anything done. You can't get hearings, you can't get legislation, you can't get responses by the regulatory agencies - you can't get anything done. I'm a realist. I don't work harder and harder to get less and less.

  Ralph Nader

  Hard Work, Agency, Done

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 24, 2008.

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• You can do everything differently in a novel. Hero narrates the novel; we're in his head. You're hearing all his thought processes and you're hearing him call himself out on his bad behavior. You don't have the benefit of that narrator in a movie. What you see a character do, very often, becomes that much more important because you don't have him editorializing it for you.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Hero, Character, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Hearing the record and seeing the response is affirming that it was the right time and right choice.

  Balthazar Getty

  Choices, Records, Right Time

  "Balthazar Getty Faces Himself". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 13, 2015.

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• On my hike my brain was left to wander. That was often maddening because it was tedious and monotonous sometimes, but then my the mind would take over, and that's when I'd start hearing the music in my head or thinking deeply about people I know or things that I didn't even know I remembered anymore. Those thoughts would be there. I wouldn't have had them otherwise.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Thinking, People, Brain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Early on - certainly in acting - you really have to take whatever you can get. So I understand well how difficult it can be to be in this position where people are just not hearing what you're trying to say or are saying. I recognize that.

  Oscar Isaac

  People, Trying, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just feel like the world is our oyster. I grew up knowing that my mother is a journalist and was one of the first bureau chiefs I think ever at the New York Times. Hearing these stories of how hard it was for her, and yet knowing how easy it is for me right now is just remarkable.

  Liz W. Garcia

  Mother, New York, Thinking

  "Women Directors Speak at Sundance". Interview with Peter Belsito, blogs.indiewire.com. January 26, 2013.

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• I'm still happy with the way Einstein's Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words. That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don't think it could happen with a long book.

  Alan Lightman

  Dream, Book, Inspiration

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• To me, there's nothing worse than going to a concert and you're so looking forward to hearing your favorite song and they never play it. You're gutted.

  Dido Armstrong

  Song, Play, Looking Forward

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• When I grew up, shame was used as a tool for check and balance. If you stood a chance of hearing someone say, "Shame on you," or "You should be ashamed of yourself," you thought twice. It doesn't seem to be a factor today.

  Robert Redford

  Balance, Tools, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's a thing I really mind hearing, when someone says: "That's not my kind of film, I don't want to go and see that..." I don't believe that, I don't believe that it's possible to write off a whole genre of filmmaking - "oh I don't like subtitled films", or "I don't like black and white films", or I don't like films made before or after, a certain date" - I don't believe that.

  Tilda Swinton

  Believe, Writing, Black And White

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• All the masters tell us that the reality of life - which our noisy walking consciousness prevents us from hearing - speaks to us chiefly in silence.

  Karlfried Graf Durckheim

  Reality, Silence, Consciousness

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• Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Mean, Objectivity, Views

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• Belief is a meaningless word. What does it mean? I believe something. Okay, now you have someone who is hearing voices and believes in these voices. It doesn't mean they have any necessary reality. Your whole concept of your "I" is an illusion. You have to give something called an "I" before you speak of what the "I" believes.

  William S. Burroughs

  Believe, Mean, Reality

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• People can be committed to a mental institution only after judicial hearing, but people are committed to schools beyond the reach of Habeas Corpus.

  Martin Mayer

  School, People, Habeas Corpus

  Martin Mayer (1963). “Where, When, and why: Social Studies in American Schools”, New York : Harper & Row

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• You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Speak, Loud, Hard

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.204, Princeton University Press

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• Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Mean, Objectivity, Giving

  "TELEVISION;Five Years Later, The Gulf War Story Is Still Being Told" by Eric Schmitt, www.nytimes.com. May 12, 1996.

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