Hears Quotes

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears by voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.

Be aware that the more often a child hears the word no, the greater his need to say no himself.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

A person hears only what they understand.

But I know I have a son who doesn't listen to anything I say and if he hears the same thing from someone else, sometimes it has a little more impact.

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.