Ear Quotes

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Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct… — Zhuangzi
The Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing.… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear… — Sydney J. Harris
The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive.… — Heinrich Heine
And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that performs the act… — Mary Caroline Richards
Healing depends on listening with the inner ear - stopping the incessant blather, and listening. Fear keeps us chattering - fear that wells up from… — Marion Woodman
Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction. — John Crawford Crosby
Calm on the listening ear of night Come Heaven's melodious strains, Where wild Judea stretches far Her silver-mantled plains. — Edmund Sears
Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear. — May Sarton
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… — Philip Glass
The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have… — Daniel Barenboim
But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months advance… — Daniel Barenboim
Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be â€” though possibly a colored canvas and… — Oswald Spengler
A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other — Sean O'Casey
It is my wish to die of unique causes, perhaps in a high-speed tricycle crash, a bizarre stapling incient, or as a result of inadvertently… — Paula Poundstone
Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I… — Jerry Spinelli
The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can find… — Jesse Owens
Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear. — Earl Derr Biggers
What if the universe were whispering in my ear at every moment? — Steven V. Roberts

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