#hearing

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

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A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

#book #considered #form #head #hearing

I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again. ↗

— Dee Dee Ramone

#again #bad #bands #cover #hearing

Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help. ↗

— Marion Ross

#come #denial #forward #get #getting

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered. ↗

— Charles Rosen

#conception #concerts #dominant #hearing #itself

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#become #beloved #childhood #everything #felt

Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#hearing #our #praise #sense #wonders

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer. ↗

— William Ames

#arises #bears #between #communion #double

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places. ↗

— Louise Brown

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The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing. ↗

— Jimmy Chamberlin

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