Top 100 What You Hear Quotes
#1. What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.
Andrew Bird
#2. Learn to follow the quiet voice within that speaks in feelings rather than words; follow what you 'hear' inside, rather than what others may be telling you to do.
Bob Proctor
#3. What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority
Audre Lorde
#4. Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter
#5. Most of what you hear about entrepreneurshi p is all wrong. It's not magic; it's not mysterious; and it has nothing to do with genes. It's a discipline and, like any discipline, it can be learned.
Peter Drucker
#6. I tell young singers not to listen to themselves. What I hear is not what you hear.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#7. It is important to know who your friends are and to stay, remain loyal to your friends, despite what you hear, despite the mistakes that are made in friendships and misunderstandings that commonly occur, to be able to forgive and to move on, you have to be able to remember the values of friendship.
Steven Spielberg
#8. Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active.
Michael Shurtleff
#9. Promise me that no matter what you hear, you won't go off on your own to investigate. I want your word. There's a command in his voice, soft as it is.
Amie Kaufman
#10. Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.
Oriana Fallaci
#11. What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I don't care about poor people,' which is a large part of what you hear of corporate hip-hop on the radio.
Talib Kweli
#12. I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear
David Foster Wallace
#13. Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.
James Young
#14. When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes.
Dale Renton
#15. I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.
Will Oldham
#16. What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.
Michael Connelly
#17. What is said is not as important as what [you] hear and what [you] feel.
Robert D. Hales
#18. What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
Daisy Berkowitz
#19. Staying motivated in business is really less about what you hear and think, and more about what you do and achieve.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#20. You will remember some of what you hear; much of what you read; more of what you see, and almost all of what you experience and understand fully.
Keith L. Moore
#21. Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.
Bobby Darin
#22. Home is the place that goes where you go, yet it welcomes you upon your return. Like a dog overjoyed at the door. We've missed you is what you hear, no matter how long you've been gone.
Michael J. Rosen
#23. I listened to a mind joint, and I wanted to do my own version of it, and what you hear on my mixtape is my take on what the whole CD sounds like.
Talib Kweli
#24. I've been doing voices as long as I can remember. When I was little I could pick up on sounds, and then I discovered you could distort what you hear and make people laugh or disrupt a class.
Frank Welker
#25. Time can also be a place ... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.
Frank Herbert
#26. The village schoolmaster took us for instructive walks ('what you hear is the sound of a scythe being sharpened' ; 'that field there will be given a rest next season ';'oh, just a small bird...no special name '; 'if that peasant is drunk, it is because he is poor ') 71
Vladimir Nabokov
#27. Where you live determines what you see. The people you listen to influence what you hear.
Mary Jo Leddy
#28. What you hear is southern Michigan, not a drawl, but a halting kind of speech where you leave spaces when there shouldn't be any. We take a breath anywhere.
Tom Bodett
#29. I'm with you, Em. Don't doubt that, okay? No matter what happens or what you hear ... Promise?
Joanna Wylde
#30. Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear.
Sunday Adelaja
#31. Learning to listen to your 'will' and what it loves - and then translating what you hear into a practical formula for action - is the only path to authenticity.
Garry Fitchett
#32. Practice listening to your intuition, your inner voice; ask questions; be curious; see what you see; hear what you hear; and then act upon what you know to be true. These intuitive powers were given to your soul at birth.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#33. Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them ... as you make the effort.
Og Mandino
#34. Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.
Philippa Gregory
#35. There is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.
Brandon Mull
#36. Don't believe what you hear about those penguins. A species of lazy waddlers. Their extinction is immanent.
Benson Bruno
#37. Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if you know somebody, I'm here in person to tell you it ain't so. If your stuff is really any good, sooner or later some editor will take a chance on you.
Kage Baker
#38. If what you hear preached doesn't cause faith to come and build faith in your spirit, then it either isn't the Word of God or else you're not hearing it
Kenneth E. Hagin
#39. The same as most prayers, the bulk of what you hear is complaints and demands. Help me. Hear me. Lead me. Forgive me.
Chuck Palahniuk
#41. To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.
David Sanborn
#42. With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for the most part, what you hear me say is pretty much what I wanted to get at.
Henry Rollins
#43. It is not what you hear, it is where you listen from within yourself that gives meaning to the message.
Iyanla Vanzant
#44. There is a moment after riding when you stop and listen. What you hear is your heartbeat in perfect rhythm with the beat of your horse's heart. It is a moment of pure magic.
Chloe Thurlow
#45. I guess I don't know what I want."
"I do. I want you."
"I know, but - "
"Nothing will ever change that. No matter what you hear. No matter what happens.
Lauren Kate
#47. I am only responsible for what I say; I am not responsible for what you hear.
Miguel Ruiz Jr.
#48. My whole thing is, if you love me, then love me. If you don't, then believe what you hear and run with that.
Allen Iverson
#50. A reputation is what you hear when no one is there to speak for it.
Jeffrey Fry
#51. You receive the light through what you read, through what you hear in meditation, or through some spiritual practice.
Marianne Williamson
#52. Then I want you to run all of your words backward in your head and listen to them. Then put on my ears and listen to them again, and then tell me what you hear.
-Lydia to Seth
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#53. What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.
C.S. Lewis
#54. The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.
Paul Merton
#55. The first part of madness is believing what you hear. The Second is acting on it.
Sam Hawksmoor
#56. To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott. What you hear is definitely the sum of all our ideas and represents all three of us. But I still write the songs myself.
Conor Oberst
#57. In point of fact, I'm not sure there are too many comedies with laugh tracks anymore. Most of what you hear is live studio audience laughing as a show is filmed. If this prompts you to wonder who those actual human beings are who are laughing at some of this stuff, that is a mystification I share.
Christopher Lloyd
#58. What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.
Michael Korda
#59. Believe none of what you hear. Half of what you see. And everything you write.
Jeph Loeb
#60. Despite what you hear and say there will always be that one voice that will always be true to you.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#61. Believe what you see with your eyes; trust what you hear with your ears; know what you feel with your flesh. The rest is dream and delusion.
Brian Staveley
#62. There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance.
Chad Smith
#63. Sometimes when you have a wild dream [massive vision]people intend to run away from you but is not that they hate you or jealous of you. Simply they can't see what you see, they can't hear what you hear and they don't know what you know. The best thing is to love them in spite of their silence.
Euginia Herlihy
#64. The world's black and white, good and bad, no matter what you hear. The people who say it isn't have already chosen black.
Loren D. Estleman
#65. Don't believe what you hear, don't believe what you see.
If you just close your eyes.
You can feel the enemy.
U2
#66. You should base everything on what you see with your own eyes, hear with your own ears and feel with your own heart. Period. Always believe what you KNOW about a person, not what you HEAR.
Tanya Masse
#67. You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
Ice-T
#68. Don't believe in everything you see girls, and only half of what you hear.
L.M. Montgomery
#69. What you see is what you get. What you hear is who I am.
Angie Stone
#70. Take the time to listen and to trust that inner voice. Then act on what you hear.
Pamala Oslie
#71. You asked me to speak. If this is a problem, the solution is not to get defensive because you don't like what you hear. The answer is to not invite me to talk.
J.R. Ward
#72. Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.
Chris Daughtry
#73. No need to attack the faults of others
no need to flaunt your own virtues
act when you're acknowledged
retire when you're ignored
rich rewards mean great trials
deep words meet superficial minds
think about what you hear
children must see for themselves..
Han-shan
#74. I not only think but also look and study things carefully. When I travel around, I look at things carefully, make comparisons of what I see. I don't accept things at face value, you cannot trust what you hear or see. Don't jump to conclusions without thinking.
Mahathir Mohamad
#75. You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal
#76. I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.
Malcolm Wilson
#77. There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.
Kin Hubbard
#78. Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood)
Tucker Max
#79. What you hear, you forget; what you see, you remember; what you do, you understand.
T. Harv Eker
#80. What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.
Philip Glass
#82. It's like you tune in to a supernatural event, and anyone who is destined to interact with that event picks up the same psychic signature. You tune in to radio-station freaky and write what you hear.
Wen Spencer
#83. If you want to be a good lair, tell people what they want to hear. (From Hot dogs under The Dakota)
Johannes Gouws
#86. Keep in mind what choices you make because one day your going to have to face you loved ones and hear what they have to say.
Keydia Marie
#87. I've never met all these people you speak of. And neither, I suspect, have you. They only exist in words we hear. It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their eyes and ears.
Douglas Adams
#88. Amy said, "So, you're making a flamethrower?"
"Amy, we gotta be prepared. We don't know what we'll find in that place, but for all we know it could be the Devil himself."
"David, what possible good is that thing gonna do?"
"Oh, no, you didn't hear me. I said it's a flamethrower." Girls.
David Wong
#89. I hear myself saying these words: What this movement is about is options. I say it to friends who are frustrated, or housebound, or guilty, or child-laden, and what I'm really thinking is, If you really got it together, the option you would choose is mine.
Nora Ephron
#90. At night the Garden was a place of shadows and moonlight, where you could more clearly hear all the illusions that went into making it what it was.
Dot Hutchison
#91. Do you understand what I'm saying?
Pardon? I just wanna hear you talking.
Toba Beta
#92. You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing anti-war books? I say 'Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?
Kurt Vonnegut
#93. When you hear the things that people have gone through and realize you've gone through the same, it provides an amazing amount of relief. It gives us hope. And I think that's what we're supposed to get from each other. The
Marc Maron
#94. You should really think about buying another new tractor. I hear the current models have air conditioning and Wi-Fi."
"What the fuck do we need Wi-Fi for out in the field?"
"Don't know. Cows might be into the beefcake of the month sites. You never know about them heifers
Mercy Celeste
#95. Being able to hear an opinion. And then how to apply that opinion is something I am learning and working with every day. What can be tricky is how to differentiate a good suggestion that you should apply to your work [from] someone's personal taste at their opinionated best.
Tori Amos
#96. He could hear his granny speaking. "No one's too poor to buy soap." Of course, many people were. But in Cockbill Street they bought soap just the same. The table might not have any food on it but, by gods, it was well scrubbed. That was Cockbill Street, where what you mainly ate was your pride.
Terry Pratchett
#97. Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.
Compay Segundo
#98. The more closed your network, the more you hear the same ideas over and again, reaffirming what you already believe, while the more open your network, the more exposed you are to new ideas.
Whitney Johnson
#99. You know what term you don't hear anymore? Arbitrage. The markets have gotten too efficient.
Nelson Peltz
#100. Lighting affects everything light falls upon. How you see what you see, how you feel
about it, and how you hear what you are hearing. Replace the 'a' with an 'e' and you get lighting effects!
Jean Rosenthal
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