Sounding Board Quotes

#1. You never help anyone by being a sounding board for their problems or complaints.

Esther Hicks

#2. I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down.

Richard Rogers

#3. I leaned my head back on the couch and closed my eyes. "I'm not sure what to do next. How are you as a sounding board?"
"I can look interested and nod at appropriate moments," he said.
"Good enough," I said.

Jim Butcher

#4. I'm far from fat, but her using me as a sounding board on this topic is like me complaining to a blind woman that I have to wear contacts.

Emily Giffin

#5. There is a stereotype that vegans talk about being vegan all the time. The irony is, once people find out I'm vegan, I quickly become their confessor, counselor, and sounding board.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#6. Sometimes, the best advisor is one that serves as a sounding board for his commander's thoughts.

B.V. Larson

#7. The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren't always obvious to a parent. My children are my dinner-table sounding board. I've come up with some wonderful ideas that they universally dismissed as 'lame.'

Nolan Bushnell

#8. I could hunker down by myself and listen closely to mixes, but then to be able to have a sounding board of peers to get advice and feedback.

Aoife O'Donovan

#9. Women politicians take their job seriously and accomplish their duties diligently and sensitively. Only they can understand the problems of women and act as a sounding board for their concerns.

Preneet Kaur

#10. My role is not so much to lobby but be a sounding board for people. That's a more effective place for me to be.

Bob Corker

#11. The man lay there silent and unresponsive. An unconscious man, it turned out, was a perfect sounding board for her doubts.

Bryan Costales

#12. My dad is a very good sounding board. He's very, very smart. Both of my parents are very, very sharp, much smarter than I, I'm happy to acknowledge.

Joshua Malina

#13. Concerned consumers are realizing that they can use social media to organize themselves around shared values to start effective movements. Social media gives them a sounding board to share ideas, as well as a means to punish irresponsible corporate behaviors.

Simon Mainwaring

#14. In return, I gave him a sounding board for his frustrations.

Barack Obama

#15. If you are upset with another's words towards you; be cautious of your reactions, for you are only meant to be a sounding-board for his soul

Jeremy Aldana

#16. For me, improvisation is about working with a partner. That is much easier to do in the interview, because you have a sounding board.

Stephen Colbert

#17. I wouldn't want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court.

Barney Frank

#18. The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.

Marlon Brando

#19. So: if you buy the notion that reality consists of the things in your freeze-frame mental image right now, and if you agree that your now is no more valid than the now of someone located far away in space who can move freely, then reality encompasses all of the events in spacetime.

Brian Greene

#20. Everyone, both big and small, can pull their weight, and ensure that the hopes and dreams of every child become realities.

Alma Powell

#21. Jesus must make decisions on his own, choices that probably seem confusing, and, in this case, offensive to those around him. This is often true of all of us when we make truly free decisions.

James Martin

#22. As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean drinking water for more than 30 million people but are also an integral part of Michigan's heritage and its economy.

Debbie Stabenow

#23. Why thank you, little lady,' Dan answers, sounding more like John Wayne than me. He flexes his muscles. 'Let me strap on my manly board and show you what I can really do.

Leslea Wahl

#24. I'll never forgive myself for putting you in danger, allowing you to get hurt.

Faith Sullivan

#25. and in the meantime don't jump to conclusions.

Carl Hiaasen

#26. If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it could be a really ugly swan.

Timmothy Radman

#27. Begin to see that life is very, very complex. It is made up of thousands of dimensions of wonder.

Frederick Lenz

#28. The policy of America to deny visas to technically trained people in the U.S. and shipped to other countries, where they create companies that compete with America, has to be the stupidest policy of all the U.S. government policies.

Eric Schmidt