"Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time."

-- Daniel Barenboim

#Taken Quotes #Eye Quotes #Listening Quotes

“Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.”
“Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams.”
“No extraordinary result ever came from mediocre effort.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Nov 12, 2009
“In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.”
“If you let some time go by before considering work that you have done, you move toward a more objective position in judging it. The pleasure of the subjective, physical experience in the world is a more distant memory and less influential.”
“One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy.”
“Sun of my soul! Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if Thou be near.”

Source : John Keble (1842). “The Christian year [by J. Keble, ed. by G.W. Doane]. 1st Amer. ed. 3rd Amer. ed”, p.20
“My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.”

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