#hear

People can be so heartless and dirty. ↗

— Jim Goad

#heartless #people

A person hears only what they understand. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#only #person #understand

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#advance #becomes #developed #difficult #difficulties

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

#hear #i #influences #listened #lots

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#could #drop #having #heard #infer

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'? ↗

— Dick Gregory

#british #business #business person #chairman #entertainers

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#doing #english #experience #experienced #found

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe. ↗

— Philip Guston

#archaic #brains #forms #hands #heart

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#already #another #around #collective #communal

With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world. ↗

— Betty Grable

#her #his #man #woman #world