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• Basically, you can live your life in one of two ways. You can let your brain run you the way it has in the past. You can let it flash any picture or sound or feeling, and you can respond automatically on cue, like a Pavlovian dog resp‎onding to a bell. Or you can choose to consciously run your brain yourself. You can implant the cues you want. You can take bad experiences and sap them of their strength and power. You can represent them to yourself in a way that no longer overpowers you, a way that "cuts them down" to a size where you know you can effectively handle things.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Strength, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 21, 2012

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• When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.

  Stephen King

  Wall, Writing, Simple

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.17, Anchor

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• How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

  Martin Luther

  Hate, Reason, Hate God

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• How deep is the magic of sound may be learned by breaking some sweet verses into prose. The operation has been compared to gathering dew-drops, which shine like jewels upon the flower, but run into water in the hand. The elements remain, but the sparkle is gone.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Running, Sweet, Flower

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

  Les Paul

  Mother, Talking, Two

  "Les Paul Interview: In His Own Words". Interview with Rick Landers, guitarinternational.com.

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• A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die.

  Joseph Addison

  Distance, Circles, Degrees

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.323, Delphi Classics

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• I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Intelligent

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• And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Blow, Silence, Heal

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• If the apocalypse comes...beep me!

  Joss Whedon

  Funny, Vampire, End Of The World

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Never Kill a Boy on the First Date". www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.

  Morris L. Ernst

  Marriage, Sensible, Reticence

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• Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

  Confucius

  Music, Wisdom, Art

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• The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.

  William Wordsworth

  Beauty, Stars, Secret Places

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth (2015). “Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode”, p.568, e-artnow

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• He who sleeps without offering the night prayer, may he never enjoy a sound sleep.

  Umar

  Prayer, Sleep, Night

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• No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and illusions are so much more pleasant.

  Anatoli Granovsky

  Dream, Truth, Doubt

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• Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Retirement, Age, Twenties

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• Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Light, Space, Silence

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• Listen to the way people talk. If your characters sound real the rest is easy.

  David Eddings

  Real, Character, People

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• Modern music and artistry would look and sound completely different if not for the groundbreaking contributions Michael Jackson gifted to the world.

  L.A. Reid

  Looks, World, Different

  "New Michael Jackson music coming in May" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. March 31, 2014.

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• Dolby was in the driver's seat. "Surround Sound" was added. Now we had three speakers behind the screen, two more on the left side of the theater, and two on the right. A closely guarded secret about all this is that you hear the correct balance only if you're sitting in the center of the theater. On the left or right side, those speakers tend to dominate.

  Sidney Lumet

  Surround Sound, Two, Secret

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• I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!

  Ken Hensley

  Men, Thinking, Guitar

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• Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.

  Charles Lamb

  Friendship, Names, Cold

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• It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

  Mary Archer

  Business, Reading, Balance

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• The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.

  Yehuda Berg

  Heartless, Supportive, Answers

  "Certainty: A Principle of Kabbalah" by Yehuda Berg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2011.

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• There are big bad wolves all over the world who tremble at the sound of his name, yet a little puny coyote girl peanut-buttered the seat of Bran Cornick’s car because he told her that she should wear a dress to perform for the pack.

  Patricia Briggs

  Girl, Names, Car

  Patricia Briggs (2013). “Frost Burned: Mercy Thompson”, p.110, Hachette UK

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• I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.

  Brenda Lee

  Who I Am, Applause, Stills

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