Hearing Quotes - Page 36

• I suspect that a lot of the stress we see around us arises from the cognitive dissonance set up by one side of the brain hearing very plausible spin while the other side knows it just ain't so.

  David Palmer

  Stress, Brain, Cognitive Dissonance

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• I've never had my own accent in a film. It's something I schedule into my preparation. That's one of my favorite things, hearing all the voices.

  Andrea Riseborough

  Voice, Preparation, Schedules

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play.

  Joshua Bell

  Teacher, Play, Students

  "Joshua Bell’s Virtuoso Reality". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2011.

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• I had been hearing on-the-ground buzz that white folks were moving to places like Bend, Oregon, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and St. George, Utah. That led me to discover through census data that these towns were already extremely white and they were becoming, in most cases, even whiter. Statistics could only tell me so much; in order to get to the spirit and essence of it, I had to immerse myself.

  Richard Benjamin

  Moving, Oregon, White

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it in his mind. He could write it down hearing it in his mind. He was just music. Yeah, he's one of my favorite writers of all times.

  Smokey Robinson

  Writing, Mind, Matter

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is a reason you keep hearing about the power of educating girls in the developing world. Its a reason so simple that you will probably view it with suspicion, as I once did. It's this: educating girls works. Really works.

  Richard E. Robbins

  Girl, Simple, Views

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

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• I have never yet failed to get a hearing (with a Hindu) if I talk to them about forgiveness of sins and peace and rest in your heart.

  Bakht Singh

  Heart, Sin, Ifs

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• 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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• Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case and the Oppenheimer hearings; certainly one saw it in the trial of Oscar Wilde.

  Diana Trilling

  Running, Saws, Defense

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• One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Business, Spring, Responsibility

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.311, Penguin

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• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  Wendell Berry

  Prayer, Lying, Fall

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.

  Jay McInerney

  Novel

  "The uses of invention" by Jay McInerney, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2005.

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• When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

  Jakob Bohme

  Thinking, Self, Thee

  Jakob Böhme (1781). “The works ¬of ¬J. ¬Behmen, ¬the ¬teutonic ¬theosopher”

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• I do not know when it was, nor where it was, nor how young I may have been, but I can recall. . . a sudden feeling of happiness at hearing the voice of the pines.

  Frank Bolles

  Nature, Voice, Feelings

  Frank Bolles (1896). “At the north of Bearcamp Water Chronicles of a stroller in New England from July to December”

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• I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the curriculum in Trend College - "I just hate to talk to a machine!" They say this as though it is a major philosophical position, as opposed to a description of a minor neurosis. My feeling is, if you have a problem like this, you shouldn't go around trumpeting it; you should stay home and practice talking to a machine you can feel comfortable with, such as your Water Pik, until you are ready to assume your place in modern society.

  Dave Barry

  Hate, Philosophical, Humorous

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• Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Nature, Children, Flower

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• Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me had a colored woman tied up in his yard to whip when he got home that very Sunday and her mother . . . was in church hearing him preach. He preached, You must obey your masters and be good servants.- That is the greater part of the sermon, when they preach to the colored folks. . . .'

  Gerry Spence

  Mother, Religious, Home

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.170, St. Martin's Press

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• I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.

  Jan Karon

  Names, Sound, Mysterious

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• Hearing things like 'Wake Up' by Lora Logic, or the Raincoats' 'In Love' - that was something I wasn't prepared for. I couldn't hear anything that came before it in the music, and I didn't want to. I was absolutely in love with its out-of-nowhereness.

  Greil Marcus

  Hearing Things, Wake Up, Want

  "Greil Marcus: a life in writing". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2012.

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• For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.

  Jacques Attali

  Men, Twenties, Essentials

  Jacques Attali (1985). “Noise: The Political Economy of Music”, p.3, Manchester University Press

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• Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.

  Patrick Ewing

  New York, Names, Knicks

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• When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting your ideas into physical motions, getting physical feedback from things you are touching - it's pretty cool. It's a really a nice contrast to writing.

  Michael Azerrad

  Nice, Writing, Ideas

  Interview with Jim Shearer, www.ifc.com.

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• A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place.

  Andrew Bird

  Sight, Cities, Creative

  "Andrew Bird Talks ‘Break It Yourself,’ And His Obsession With Maps". Interview with Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.

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• The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.

  Dave Brubeck

  Radio, Firsts, Remember

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• There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!

  Kelly Bishop

  Laughing, Way, Joyful

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