Top 1200 Listening Ear Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Meditation is totally different. When you concentrate you close your mind to everything else. Meditation means just an openness, a relaxed openness. It is not concentration. While listening to me you are listening to the birds singing in the trees too. The wind passing through the trees singing its song - you are open to it too. The aeroplane passing by, or the train - you are open to it too. This is meditation - you are simply open, available, conscious, available, all doors are open.

I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.

Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.

The eye takes a person into the world. The ear brings the world into a human being.

The first music that came to my ear was gospel... I used to sing 'Amazing Grace' with a very strong southern accent and a vibrato already at five years old.

I'm not an intimate of Donald Trump, but I have great instincts about people, and I have fairly good skill at sizing people up, and it's not phony. You can tell when somebody's talking to you and not really hearing you. I've been around powerful people ask me what I think about things, and I can tell they're not really listening. They just asked, to ask, try to score points that way. Trump listens. But you don't get the impression that he's listening from a position of indecisiveness, indecision or confusion. I've never met anybody with the energy this guy's got, either.

To receive the Word in the ear is one thing, and to receive Jesus into your very soul is quite another.

When Donald Trump calls you, it's like you have a little Trump rally in your ear.

One time, I was out watching music, and someone whispered in my ear, 'You can do surgery on me any time.'

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

Get that finger out of your ear! You don't know where that finger's been!

I lost my spleen, I lost the hearing in my left ear, so I had a lot of internal organ damage.

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

I was once sitting on a tube, and someone was playing my song so loudly through their ear phones next to me. I just stayed silent and chuckled to myself.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

I think St. Jude helped me achieve some miracles in my life - that's why I wear the medallion in my left ear and never take it out.

I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all hell yet.

Look! I can't even wear glasses because my ear is missing. I'm hardcore! I'm hardcore!

Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?

When I talk about having good hearing, I don't mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don't mean just looking, but looking at yourself.

Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my body like a cool rain.

When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically.

There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.

When no food is given to the ear, Then let a little be given to the stomach.

A single ear of corn in a large field is as strange as a single world in infinite space.

On this site we're going to build an Eye and Ear Hospital. This is going to be a sight for sore eyes.

I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the hair from the back of a pig's ear. It's that simple.

A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.

An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.

I am lucky to have been gifted with a good ear and the ability to mimic. If I can hear it... I can replicate it, whether it's a dialect or just matching the tone of someones voice.

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately

Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.

That, lad," he said proudly, "was some of the worst poetry I have heard for a long time. It was offensive to the ear and a torrrture to the soul....We'll make a gonnagle out of ye yet!

I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.

I felt I had a good ear, and I had the ability to sing like my influences.

We can say what we like without favour or fear and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear

Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.

Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

I did 'Christmas Carol' off and on through my teenage years, so I always had that dialect and that sound in my ear, which was so helpful. It became second nature.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness amidst all the bitterness that we encounter here.

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

Darren Aronofsky is on another level. You get lost in a scene, and he'll come over and whisper something in your ear, and suddenly everything makes sense.

Insult is in the ear of the listener. Statements of fact cannot be insulting unless you feel that the label applied indicates some failing, moral or otherwise, in yourself.

Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new ideas because you don't want to take somebody else's ideas. You need to find your own. So if you go to different artistic mediums, whether it's dance or it's visual arts or films or books, stories, sometimes it gets you hearing things, hearing progressions that you wouldn't come up with if you were just listening to other music because you don't want to copy progressions you've just heard.

It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

When I'm scoring something like a string quartet, it's all notated music, so it's meticulously written in the score, which is very different than doing things by ear.