117 Hearing Quotes

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Famous Hearing Quotes

The voice that U hear is the alchemy of Ur mind. — Prince

The devil's voice is sweet to hear. - Stephen King

The devil's voice is sweet to hear. — Stephen King

Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you. — Barry Hannah

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. - Jean De La Bruyere

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. — Jean De La Bruyere

There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. — Kate DiCamillo

Talk in order that I may see you. — Socrates

And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me! — Lord Byron

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses — E. E. cummings

Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body. — Anne Michaels

Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song. — Rumi

The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice. — Cecilia Bartoli

Because you speak to me in words, and I look at you with feelings. - Anna Karina

Because you speak to me in words, and I look at you with feelings. — Anna Karina

Your voice is a very powerful weapon. When you are in tune with the cosmic breath of heaven and earth, your voice produces true sounds. Unify body, mind, and speech, and real techniques will emerge. — Morihei Ueshiba

Listen with your heart, you will understand. — Pocahontas

A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice. — Rumi

Short Hearing Quotes

  • Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. — Marcus Aurelius
  • Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. — Mark Twain
  • Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. — Mark Twain
  • I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. — Confucius
  • The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. — Peter Drucker
  • The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. — Unknown
  • If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once. — Tupac Shakur
  • Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. — George Carlin

Hearing Image Quotes

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. - John Muir quote

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. — John Muir

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude. - John C. Maxwell quote

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude. — John C. Maxwell

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least. - William Wordsworth quote

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least. — William Wordsworth

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming. - David Bowie quote

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming. — David Bowie

I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet. - Niccolo Paganini quote

I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet. — Niccolo Paganini

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand. - Chinese Proverbs quote

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand. — Chinese Proverbs

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

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

A wise man hears one word and understands two. - Yiddish Proverbs quote

A wise man hears one word and understands two. — Yiddish Proverbs

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak. - Richard Branson quote

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak. — Richard Branson

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch. - Leo Buscaglia quote

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch. — Leo Buscaglia

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. - Fulton J. Sheen quote

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. — Fulton J. Sheen

Deaf people can do anything, except hear. - Marlee Matlin quote

Deaf people can do anything, except hear. — Marlee Matlin

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine. - Frank Sinatra quote

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine. — Frank Sinatra

Men trust their ears less than their eyes. - Herodotus quote

Men trust their ears less than their eyes. — Herodotus

This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join ya, honey! - Redd Foxx quote

This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join ya, honey! — Redd Foxx

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts. - Desi Arnaz quote

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts. — Desi Arnaz

Don't believe everything you hear today - Joe Hill quote

Don't believe everything you hear today — Joe Hill

Don't believe everything you hear - Sara Shepard quote

Don't believe everything you hear — Sara Shepard

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. - Samuel Butler quote

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. — Samuel Butler

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor - Donella Meadows quote

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor — Donella Meadows

Hearing quote A quiet mind is able to hear intuition over fear.
A quiet mind is able to hear intuition over fear.

Just Hearing Your Voice Quotes

When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what would be good for your future, sometimes you can't hear yourself. I've gotten pretty good at tuning everyone else out. Now it's just me; what pleases me creatively. — America Ferrera

Lord God, I long to hear Your voice but not just secondhand through teachers, as wonderful and godly as they can be. I long to hear Your voice firsthand. — Sheila Walsh

When you hear voices in your head that tell you to shoot the pope, do you do what they say? Same thing goes for customers and managers. They are the crazy voices in your head, and you need to set them right, not just blindly do what they ask for. — Linus Torvalds

Hearing quote I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear. — C. S. Lewis

I don't want to be influenced as to what I write in the next book, to hear those voices in my head when I'm writing. The idea of second-guessing your reader is dangerous, trying to please some notional reader looking over your shoulder, instead of just yourself. — Maggie O'Farrell

There are those nights where you are just so emotionally present that you crack yourself open. And it works. And on the nights when you don't have it in you because you're tired or you've got no voice, you still are able to do your job and tell the story that people have come to hear. — Staceyann Chin

Hearing quote Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Sammantha: Tucker? Tucker: Does some other man call at this hour just to hear your voice? If so, give me his name, and I'll kill him. — Catherine Anderson

Not Hearing Your Voice Quotes

Even if there comes a time when you do not hear my voice, do not give up. Do not despair. Do not stop fighting for your freedom until you have victory! — Muammar al-Gaddafi

Who can assure us that we will be alive tomorrow? Let us listen to the voice of our conscience, to the voice of the royal prophet: "Today, if you hear God's voice, harden not your heart." Let us not put off from one moment to another (what we should do) because the (next moment) is not yet ours. — Pio of Pietrelcina

I can hear my brother's voice in my head. Your problem is that you're too emotional. But how can I not be emotional, Rowan? How can I not care? — Lauren DeStefano

Hearing quote How amazing is it to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go in your head.
How amazing is it to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go in your head.

Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul. — Meg Rosoff

Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees... — Karel Capek

I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs. — Doug Coupland

Hearing quote Crying is how your hear speaks when your lips can't explain the pain you feel.
Crying is how your hear speaks when your lips can't explain the pain you feel.

No, it's not comfortable; I hate watching myself. You don't like when you hear your voice on your voicemail; imagine having to see yourself 30 feet wide and 30 feet big. — Don Cheadle

It's one point to build a singing voice, but giving someone his or her own voice back is something else all together different. Imagine not being able to communicate with your voice and then having it back! It's truly a mind-blowing experience to hear that happen. — Gary Catona

When you hear voices from your past, do not close your ears, listen to them, but don't stop, keep walking to the future. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A character has a distinctive voice - you should be able to hear them in your head and conduct a conversation with them while you're out walking. If the answers surprise you, you know it's the character speaking and not you. — Jeanette Winterson

Your Voice Quotes

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. - Rumi

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. — Rumi

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth. — William Faulkner

Face your fear, empty yourself, trust your own voice, let go of control, have faith in outcomes, connect with a larger purpose, derive meaning from the struggle. — Kano Jigoro

Listen to the inner light; It will guide you. Listen to the inner Peace; It will feed you. Listen to the inner Love; It will transform you, It will divinise you, It will immortalise you. — Sri Chinmoy

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things. — Dogen

A KEY TO BEGIN FORGIVING: Become soft and tender with the person. The first step is to become soft in your mind and spirit. Lower your voice and relax your facial expressions. This reflects honor and humility; and as Proverbs 15:1 suggests, "A gentle answer turns away anger." — Gary Smalley

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

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. — Steve Jobs

Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear. — Hafez

Hearing Voices Quotes

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. — Vincent Van Gogh

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. — Pat Tillman

The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are. — Ludwig van Beethoven

The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do. — Bill Hybels

Don't believe everything you hear - even in your own mind. - Daniel Amen

Don't believe everything you hear - even in your own mind. — Daniel Amen

Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back — John Maynard Keynes

I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and smile. — Jennifer Garner

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world. — J. K. Rowling

Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it. — Dallas Willard

Feeling Heard Quotes

Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass. — Leigh Hunt

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me! — Richard Pryor

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience. — Dale Carnegie

I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship. — Brené Brown

Going too fast is one of the mistakes all negotiators are prone to making. If we’re too much in a hurry, people can feel as if they’re not being heard. — Chris Voss

I heard a wise saying once that has helped me: "Negative feelings are like stray cats. The more you feed them, the more they hang around. — Joyce Rupp

Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them? Let us all feel their silent cry of agony and let us all help that cry to be heard in the world. — Rukmini Devi Arundale

I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read. — Gayl Jones

Michael Harris opens the doors and gently guides you into a magic world. Once inside, you can't help but feel mesmerized, eager to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. And no wonder: a major thinker of our time is talking to you about math and so much more, like you've never heard before. — Edward Frenkel

Mirroring makes the other person feel listened to. Part of the message it sends to the other person is, ‘I heard every word you said word for word, and I’m proving it because I just repeated it back to you. But it’s not enough. I still don’t get it. — Chris Voss

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More Hearing Quotes

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in. — Aristotle

Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you've never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. — Bob Marley

If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going. — Harriet Tubman

Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves. — Mother Angelica

When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises. — Oscar Romero

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. — George Orwell

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear. — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens. — Fannie Lou Hamer

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. — Saint Augustine

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am. — Michelle Obama

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every day, God has something to say to you. Even when He seems to be quiet, God is still saying something. — T. B. Joshua

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