Unison Quotes

• The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

  James Cash Penney

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Men

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• The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Running, Dream

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• When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

  Khalil Gibran

  Music, Stupid, Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.42, Lulu.com

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• All things arise in unison. Thereby we see their return.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Return, Arise

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• An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Voice, Choir, Individual

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• There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Two, Feelings

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.509, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private "home" of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Home, Two, Soul

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.132, e-artnow

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• There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.

  William Cowper

  Music, Heart, Air

  William Cowper (1822). “The poems of William Cowper”, p.136

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• We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison?

  Erin Gray

  Emotional, Intellectual, Three

  "Erin Gray, Then and Now: an Interview". Interview with Patricia Vollmer, www.wired.com. October 16, 2012.

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• Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

  Angela Carter

  Dream, Dark, Greek

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?

  Khalil Gibran

  Silence, Together, Would Be

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.

  Oded Fehr

  Life Lesson, Responsibility, Army

  SomethingJewish Network Interview, www.somethingjewish.co.uk. December 1, 2001.

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• To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Time, Mean, Differences

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• There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.

  William Cowper

  Music, Sympathy, Soul

  William Cowper (1822). “The poems of William Cowper”, p.136

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• It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.

  Thomas Paine

  Philosophy, Mind, Faculty

  Thomas Paine (2016). “The Rights of Man”, p.75, Xist Publishing

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• Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

  Jane Austen

  Stranger, Estrangement

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.509, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.

  Richard Thompson

  Ideas

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• If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

  Anais Nin

  Teamwork, War, Fate

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• There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire from one end of the continent to the other, and a hundred million people roar with laughter, sway their bodies in unison, hum one song or break forth in anger and denunciation, there is the overpowering feeling that in this country we have come nearer the brotherhood of man than ever before.

  Eric Hoffer

  Country, Fashion, Song

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• I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other.

  Steve Reich

  Interesting, Phases, Made

  Steve Reich, Paul Hillier (2002). “Writings on Music, 1965-2000”, p.20, Oxford University Press

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• In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Religious, Perfect, Political

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• I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.

  Art Garfunkel

  Radio, Stuff, Kind

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• Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Taken, Cutting, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.323, Cambridge University Press

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• Sometimes, when she's out here alone, she can feel the pulse of something bigger, as if all things animate were beating in unison, a glory and a connection that sweeps her out of herself, out of her consciousness, so that nothing has a name, not in Latin, not in English, not in any known language.

  T.C. Boyle

  Latin, Names, Pulse

  T.C. Boyle (2012). “When the Killing's Done”, p.101, A&C Black

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• The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.

  Leonard Sweet

  Conformity, Chains, Clicks

  Leonard I. Sweet, Lance Ford (2011). “I Am a Follower: The Way, Truth, and Life of Following Jesus”, p.222, Thomas Nelson Inc

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