Hearing Quotes - Page 32

• It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay.

  Melvin Konner

  Ideas, Adequate, Gains

  Melvin Konner (1984). “The tangled wing: biological constraints on the human spirit”

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• Money gained on Sabbath-day is a loss, I dare to say. No blessing can come with that which comes to us, on the devil's back, by our willful disobedience of God's law. The loss of health by neglect of rest, and the loss of soul by neglect of hearing the gospel, soon turn all seeming profit into real loss.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Real, Loss, Blessing

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1889). “The Salt-cellars: Being a Collection of Proverbs, Together with Homely Notes Thereon”

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• A poor old man held the winning ticket on a half million dollar lottery. Hearing the old man might be surprised at the shock, the local pastor was asked to break the news gradually. The pastor made a customary call, and while visiting casually asked the old man what he would do with a half million dollars if he had it. The old man replied, "why, I'd give half of it to you." Whereupon the pastor dropped dead.

  Art Linkletter

  Winning, Past, Men

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• I like to think that I differ from other interviewers in the sense that I hide my agenda more successfully, and I'm more open to hearing stuff that is surprising and unexpected. That I'm actually involved in an investigation, through monologue, at times.

  Errol Morris

  Thinking, Agendas, Stuff

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I love just going into stores and testing fragrances. The smell of a fragrance is kind of like hearing a song, it makes you feel something that's really unique to you and can be quite exciting.

  Erin Heatherton

  Song, Unique, Smell

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I sat on the piano bench next to my mother in church. Something happened before I set foot on this planet. I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.

  Al Jarreau

  Mother, Dad, Piano

  "Jazz vocalist Al Jarreau". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.

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• Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Ninety Nine, Listening, Singing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't want to see kids in America being scared because they're hearing people on television and the radio saying really ugly xenophobic and racist things.

  Bernie Sanders

  Kids, America, People

  "Bernie Sanders On Being Jewish And A Democratic Socialist". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. November 6, 2015.

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• My inbox [showed me] how much pain there is in the world. I appreciated hearing from people, but it was hard to know I couldn't do anything.

  Emily Yoffe

  Pain, People, World

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I had no real direction at all in my 20's and so I did what a lot of people without direction do: I took an acting class. In one of those first days of the class, I did this weird, silly improv, and it got laughs. It was such a blissful moment. I've never gotten over that love of hearing laughter. As a people pleaser, it's the drug of choice for me.

  Ty Burrell

  Laughter, Real, Silly

  Source: deadline.com

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• In one fell swoop we can now see the same mental health benefits of marriage for same sex couples as heterosexual couples, the main reason there is a benefit to being in a legally recognized marriage is that it introduces a level of stability into a relationship. This is going to help change the social climate. Hearing the Supreme Court say this is OK will help couples feel like they're part of regular society.

  Rick Wright

  Change, Sex, Couple

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• We owe something to the government to grow up in this great country. I'm tired of hearing people in the private sector talk like they don't owe the government anything. We do. This is a great country because we all pay into it. It's about time we all pay into it. ... If we paid the same amount of taxes we paid when Bill Clinton was president, I would be a happy guy, and the budget would be closer to balanced. You cannot give away money, whether you give it to rich or poor people. That's what George Bush did -- excuse me, trillions of dollars. You can't do that.

  Howard Dean

  Country, Growing Up, Tired

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• I don't remember doing anything else; I don't remember not living in the studio. I'm itching for people to hear this album because I'm sick of hearing it myself.

  James Hetfield

  People, Sick, Albums

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• A well-functioning democracy has a culture of free speech, not simply legal protection of free speech. It encourages independence of mind. It imparts a willingness to challenge prevailing opinion through both words and deeds. Equally important, it encourages a certain set of attitudes in listeners, one that gives a respectful hearing to those who do not embrace the conventional wisdom. In a culture of free speech, the attitude of listeners is no less important than that of speakers.

  Cass Sunstein

  Attitude, Democracies Have, Giving

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• My arm is paralyzed; my voice that once could be heard all along the line, is gone; I can scarcely speak above a whisper; my hearing is very much impaired, and sometimes I feel as if I wished the end would come; but I have some misrepresentations of my battles that I wish to correct, so as to have my record correct before I die.

  James Longstreet

  Voice, Wish, Battle

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• Keyboardists whose chief asset is mere technique . . . more often than not astound us with their prowess without ever touching our sensibilities. They overwhelm our hearing without satisfying it and stun the mind without moving it.

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

  Moving, Touching, Mind

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• Hearing is believing...a magician with the piano.

  Anthony Davis

  Believe, Piano, Magician

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• Sight is not faith, and hearing is not faith, neither is feeling faith; but believing when we neither see, hear, nor feel is faith; and everywhere the Bible tells us our salvation is to be by faith. Therefore we must believe before we feel, and often against our feelings, if we would honor faith.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Believe, Sight, Feelings

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• Women have so much power that even hearing the word power frightens them.

  Harriet Rubin

  Interview with Tom Peters, tompeters.com.

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• I set a rule that people weren't allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news. We had to get a balanced picture. In fact, I kind of favored just hearing about the accounts we were losing because ... bad news is generally more actionable than good news.

  Bill Gates

  People, Facts, News

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• I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.'

  Tom Waits

  Song, Thinking, Dust

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• In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.

  Mark Twain

  Taught Us, Mind, Doubters

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.17, University of Missouri Press

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• The idea of hearing, 'Great gig, man,' one more time just turns my stomach over.

  John Lydon

  Men, Ideas, Gigs

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• There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

  Agatha Christie

  Mistake, Wrong Time, Greater

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made people rise to real ambition, real gravity was the sense of posterity, for example - a word that I can remember hearing quite often when I was a child and I never hear anymore. People actually wanted to make the world good for people in generations that they would never see. It makes people think in very large terms to try to liberate women, for example, or to try to eliminate slavery.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Children, Real, Ambition

  Source: www.pbs.org

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