Best 476 quotes in «hearing quotes» category

Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics!

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.

Reading in the third millennium B.C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from looking at its picture symbols, rather than visual reading of syllables in our sense.

Republican hawks like John McCain and Lindsey Graham who are very skeptical of [Rex Tillerson]. At the same time the Democrats will portray him as a climate criminal because he heads a big oil company. So, he'll be in for really tough confirmation hearings.

Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates.

Sometimes even hearing a bad idea is a great way to get to a good idea.

Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing — to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience.

Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture.

So my reaction to hearing this corny-ass, horrible song ["With Arms Wide Open" by Creed] is violent, uncontrollable, sustained weeping.

Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.

Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.

Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.

She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up vivid, living scenery.

Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.

Since hearing beauty in something is essentially a positive response and hearing ugliness is negative, might it ultimately be more difficult for an open-minded listener to define ugliness than it is to define beauty?

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

Sometimes being honest with someone or hearing the truth hurts, but it is always better to be honest and accept what is.

Somewhere inside, we hear a voice. It leads us in the direction of the person we wish to become. But it is up to us whether or not to follow.

The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.

The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it's addicting, really.

Speak up, speak often and don’t worry about those that at this point cannot understand as they can never un-hear what we tell them.

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.

The charges are false and despicable. I have not received a fair hearing. This is un-American. All the lawyering will provoke an untoward outcome.

The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight.

The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.

The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.

The formation of scales and of the web of harmony is a product of artistic invention, and is in no way given by the natural structure or by the natural behaviour of our hearing, as used to be generally maintained hitherto.

The Christian life is not knowing or hearing, but doing.

The hearings are just like a snake about to devour people.

The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to earn their right to a hearing by the value of what they say, and not by virtue of who is saying it. Today, authority has to earn respect by the intrinsic value of what it says, not by the force of its imposition.

The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.

The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.

The love shown in Christ by our God to mankind should constrain all of us who are followers and disciples of Christ to do all in our power to see to it that the Message of Salvation is carried to those of our fellows for whom Christ Our Saviour was sacrificed but who have not had the benefit of hearing the good news.

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'

The one thing I learned is not to say anything about my own paintings. Keep my mouth shut. You'll never stop hearing what you said. It will come back to you again and again, people will always tell you about it. Even if you were the source of what's wrong with it.

The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

There are a lot of people that impacted me. I remember hearing Oscar Peterson live at the Blue Note, which was very expensive, but... $50 in the '80s... hard to come up with. But it was amazing.

There are so many people I would love to meet and say thank you for posting their videos, because hearing their stories and everything comforted me.

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.

The reason that I'm considered to be prolific is just because I'm a good listener. It literally is me taking dictation when I write. I'm listening and typing as fast as I'm hearing the words.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

The mall is good for hearing new music because you hear music everywhere. I like to walk around the mall and hear what the kids are listening to, or what's the feel of Middle America, cause that's what the mall is.

The only bitterness I had is: Where is the conversation on gender? That's been going on since there have been men and women, and still we're not hearing about what they're going through.