Noise Quotes - Page 40

• The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence...

  Pablo Neruda

  Music, Rain, Rivers

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• A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.

  William Cowper

  Life, Success, Wise

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.155

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• A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fall, Land, Doe

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• Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

  Samuel Johnson

  Music, Humorous, Thinking

  Quoted in The Morning Chronicle, 1816.

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• And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Cat, Voice

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise and tension of modern life, at least for a little while, in order to relax their minds and wills and seek a blessed healing sense of inner unity, reconciliation, integration?

  Thomas Merton

  Blessed, Healing, Reflection

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.44, Macmillan

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• Like a crowd in my head, so loud.
  I wonder what it's like to be dead, I hope it's quiet.
  Noise in my head like a riot.
  Any remedy you have for me, I'll try it.

  Maxwell Frazer

  Rap, Trying, Crowds

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• Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.

  Tad Williams

  Lying, Sleep, Down And

  Tad Williams (1998). “Otherland: City of Golden Shadow”, p.103, Penguin

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• We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

  Edmund Burke

  Judging, Liberty, Civil Rights

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3831, Delphi Classics

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• It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Feelings, Humanity

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1338, GENERAL PRESS

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• The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, ("to think") and tra ("tool'). So the literal translation is "a tool of thought." And that's how mantras are used in Buddhist and Hindu practices, as tools that clear your mind of distractions. Because when you focus on repeating that mantra over and over again, soon the noise will die down and all you will hear is your inner voice.

  Russell Simmons

  Buddhist, Men, Thinking

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• When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be reduced to arithmetical computation, the result will appear most astonishing to those...not in the habit of reflecting how many of the mightiest of operations in nature are effected insensibly, without noise or disorder.

  Charles Lyell

  Science, Rivers, Numbers

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• You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart.

  Francis Pharcellus Church

  Baby, Science, Men

  "Is There a Santa Claus" (editorial), Sun (N.Y.), 21 Sept. 1897

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• To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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• Meditation is basically the process of witnessing: looking from your centre all that is happening. Many things are happening on the outside - the noise of the train far away; something is happening in you body - your knees are hurting - right? Your mind is churning many thoughts, that 'What am I doing here?' Your heart is feeling many emotions, you have waited for this moment for so long. There is joy in the heart, a certain ecstasy, a mood, a receptivity. All those things have to be watched very minutely.

  Rajneesh

  Hurt, Heart, Long

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• Except witnessing, I don't teach anything else. So just witness your mind and the meditation will be happening. And once you have got in tune with your being, you know the way, you know the how. Then it does not matter where you are. Alone or in the crowd, in the silences of the forest or in the noises of a marketplace, it is all the same. You can simply close your eyes and disappear inwards.

  Rajneesh

  Eye, Silence, Meditation

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• My singing silenced the bullies, but better than that, it silenced the demons inside me. When you're jeered at, told to shut up, sit still, stop being silly, there's a cacophony of noise rolling around in your head. When I was singing, it was peaceful.

  Susan Boyle

  Bullying, Silly, Peaceful

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• So lets knock a couple back and make some noise

  Oscar Wilde

  Couple, Drinking

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• A Buddha is not a man of concentration, he is a man of awareness. He has not been trying to narrow down his consciousness; on the contrary, he has been trying to drop all barriers so that he becomes totally available to existence. Watch... existence is simultaneous. I am speaking here and the traffic noise is simultaneous. The train, the birds the wind blowing through the trees - in this moment the whole of existence converges. You listening to me, I speaking to you, and millions of things going on - it is tremendously rich.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Wind Blowing, Bird

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• It needs great art, learning to play with one's own life, to play on one's own life. Meditation is the art to create music from your heart. Meditation is simply the method to transform noise into harmony, the method to shift your consciousness from the head to the heart. The head is noisy, it is all noise - a tale told by an idiot, full of fury and noise, signifying nothing.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Creativity, Play

  Bhagwan S. Rajneesh, Osho, Krishna Prem (Swami.), Krishna Prabhu (Swami.) (1984). “Just Around the Corner: Initiation Talks Between Master and Disciple”, Osho International Foundation

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• Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

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• The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?'

  Robin Williams

  War, Nuclear, World

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• Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive armament industry, careless or dishonest 'scientific' reports, Livermore cheers for 'nukes forever' and a huge amount of self-serving noise on every subject from global warming to 'the face of God'.

  Leo Kadanoff

  Cheer, Science, Thinking

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• Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast and very accurate, but they are constrained to perform only one or a few elementary operations at a time. Men are flexible, capable of "programming themselves contingently" on the basis of newly received information. Computing machines are single-minded, constrained by their "pre-programming."

  J. C. R. Licklider

  Men, Band, Machines

  J. C. R. Licklider, Robert W. Taylor (1990). “In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990”

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• He's so big he makes a beeping noise when he walks backwords.

  Jim Cornette

  Wrestling, Bigs, Walks

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