Noise Quotes - Page 28

• Endless drama in a group clouds consciousness. Too much noise overwhelms the senses. Continual input obscures genuine insight. Do not substitute sensationalism for learning.

  John Heider

  Drama, Clouds, Groups

  John Heider (2014). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.12, Green Dragon Books

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• Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.

  Anne Rice

  Fifty, Whipping, Shows

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• Or thou might'st better listen to the wind, Whose language is to thee a barren noise, Though it blows legend-laden through the trees.

  John Keats

  Blow, Wind, Tree

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.422, Delphi Classics

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• Babes crying in the wilderness know that the world already has plenty of terrifying noise, but there aren't enough clear voices to smooth our troubled journey through the darkness ... only a few can speak truth to power.

  Thomas H. Cook

  Journey, Voice, Darkness

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• Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right.

  John Lydon

  Love Is, Two, Mind

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• The origin is nameless; the origin is absolutely quiet, it is not whirring about making noise. Creation is something that is most holy, that is the most sacred thing in life, and if you have made a mess of your life, change it. Change it today, not tomorrow. If you are uncertain, find out why and be certain. If your thinking is not straight, think straight, logically, Unless all that is prepared, all that is settled, you cannot enter into this world, into the world of creation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life Changing, Thinking, Things In Life

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• I was never good at hide and seek because I'd always make enough noise so my friends would be sure to find me. I don't have anyone to play those games with any more, but now and then I make enough noise just in case someone is still looking and hasn't found me yet.

  Brian Andreas

  Games, Play, Would Be

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• Evaluation and coaching get tangled together. When this occurs, the noise of evaluation drowns out coaching efforts. Think of this like a term paper. When you get your assignment grade back (evaluation) you tend to tune out the professor notes in the margins (coaching) if the grade is higher or lower than expected.

  Sheila Heen

  Thinking, Term Paper, Tangled

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• Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster. I've got Tourette's. My mouth won't quit, though mostly I whisper or subvocalize like I'm reading aloud, my Adam's apple bobbing, jaw muscle beating like a miniature heart under my cheek, the noise suppressed, the words escaping silently, mere ghosts of themselves, husks of empty breath and tone.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Reading, Heart, Artist

  Jonathan Lethem (2011). “Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel”, p.11, Vintage

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• Way over half the murders committed in this country are by close friends or relatives of the deceased. A gun makes a loud and satisfying noise in a moment of passion and requires no agility and very little strength. How many murders wouldn't happen, if they all had to use hammers and knives?

  John D. MacDonald

  Country, Passion, Gun

  "The Scarlet Ruse". Book by John D. MacDonald, 1973.

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• It’s a shame, but also for kids it’s so easy now for them to download it to their phone and listen to it everywhere. If you go to Lille Eurostar station there is music playing: Why? What’s the point? It’s like showing someone a movie on a small crappy screen. It should be sounding good! There’s a lot of noise pollution, in that sense.

  Stephen Dewaele

  Kids, Phones, Shame

  "Soulwax/2manyDJs". Interview with Kevin EG Perry, kevinegperry.com. January 5, 2012.

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• I love lawyers and bankers, they are my family, but I don't want to live with them. It doesn't make a city. You need people with brain and heart and soul that give it all. You need young people on skateboards and you need people running around making noise.

  Agathe Snow

  Running, Heart, Cities

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• The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.

  Jean Cocteau

  Girl, Soldier, Hot

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• One of the recurring philosophical questions is: 'Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one to hear?' Which says something about the nature of philosophers , because there is always someone in a forest. It may only be a badger, wondering what that cracking noise was, or a squirrel a bit puzzled by all the scenery going upwards, but someone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Philosophical, Squirrels

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.10, Random House

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• Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. My message to the world is 'Let's swing, sing, shout, make noise! Let's not mimic death before our time comes! Let's be wet and noisy!'

  Mel Brooks

  Artist, Swings, Together

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.

  George Harrison

  Past, Car, Skins

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• Modern science agrees that the universe consists of vibrations, but sound is more than vibration. Distinct from white noise, sound is vibrations in harmonic proportions, and from the billions of vibrations that are possible, the universe shows a startling, overwhelming preference for the few thousand that make harmonic sense.This is because the One, from which all things issue, is beautiful.

  Huston Smith

  Beautiful, White, Issues

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• I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.

  Rex Stout

  Children, Book, Sleep

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• The more noise, the higher I get.

  Ed Belfour

  Higher

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• Dale Earnhardt told me it doesn't matter if fans boo or cheer, as long as they're making noise.

  Kurt Busch

  Cheer, Long, Fans

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• I'm not a guy who is going to make a lot of noise. I hope to lead by example.

  Todd Helton

  Guy, Example

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• Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Stupid, Men

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• Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet lakes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Stupid, Men

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• Be dangerous and unpredictable. And make a lot of noise.

  John Bush

  Dangerous, Unpredictable

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• The intoxication of the faro drinker only shows itself at first by an increase in noise which is only deafening, and finally by a silent deterioration of the mind.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Mind, Deterioration, Firsts

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