Noise Quotes

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pessimism, Form, Disruption

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

  Socrates

  Profound, Silence, Melody

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• The loudest noise in the world is silence.

  Thelonious Monk

  Silence, World

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• People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.

  Bill Murray

  Music, Truth, Honesty

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• Noise makes no good, good makes no noise.

  Vincent de Paul

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• Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

  Joan Baez

  Sanity, Imposition, Noisy

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• We need silence to be able to touch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  Nature, Stars, Moon

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• We like no noise unless we make it ourselves.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

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• Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words.

  Milan Kundera

  Advantage

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• Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart

  Lady Gaga

  Hard Work, Heart, Mean

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• The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Wheels, Worst

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.38, Nayika Publishing

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• Noise: a stench in the ear.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Silence, Ears

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.732, Library of America

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  We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  God, Nature, Stars

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Anger, Arguing, Argument

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Long, Bears, Opinion

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.65, Publishdrive

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• Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.

  Robert Orben

  Cities, Scratches, Jet Planes

  Robert Orben (2012). “2500 Jokes to Start 'Em Laughing”, p.266, Doubleday

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• Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• People who make no noise are dangerous.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  People, Silence, Dangerous

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book VIII". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1678 - 1679.

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• Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.684, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Giving, Silence, Giver

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• The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.

  E. V. Lucas

  Food, July, Thunder

  Lucas, E. V. (2014). “Fireside and Sunshine”, p.18, Read Books Ltd

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• Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

  Sun Tzu

  Business, War, Fighting

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• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Live Life, Power, People

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• Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

  Hans Arp

  Technology, Men, Essence

  "Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories". p. 231, 1972.

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