Deaf Ears Quotes:

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

- Albert Bandura

topic: Powerful, Fall, Mean, Deaf Ears, Disengagement

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

- Bob Riley

topic: Jobs, Thinking, Special, Deaf Ears

France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

- Wilfred Burchett

topic: Circles, Ears, Demand, Indochina, Deaf Ears

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

- Walter Lippmann

source: Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.324, Transaction Publishers

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Music, Deaf Ears, Wise Wisdom

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.

- Jean de la Bruyere

topic: Power, Men, Advice, Deaf Ears

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

- Ellis Peters

source: Ellis Peters (2014). “Brother Cadfael's Penance”, p.68, Head of Zeus

topic: Talking, Voice, Usual, Deaf Ears

Right now there’s a man on the street outside my door with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear. He has cheeks like torn sheet music every tear-broken crescendo falling on deaf ears. At his side there’s a boy with eyes like an anthem no one stands up for.

- Andrea Gibson

source: Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.58, SCB Distributors

topic: Fall, Eye, Boys, Deaf Ears, Crescendo

My view is that you cannot close your mind and say I don't want to listen to this or that. Because if you can't appreciate the bad for being bad, you can't appreciate the good. If you turn a deaf ear to everything but one style, pretty soon it's not going to work out.

- Billy Eckstine

topic: Views, Appreciate, Work Out, Deaf Ears, Being Bad

Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Deaf Ears, Blind Eyes

Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected first. Otherwise the content falls on deaf ears. So small groups are an essential building block to any future you want to create.

- Peter Block

topic: Block, Fall, Learning, Connectedness, Deaf Ears

Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor add fuel to it, but let it go out by itself. Begin your ministry with one blind eye and one deaf ear.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Deaf Ears, Contention, Peacemaker, Blind Eyes

America has a broken spirit, that the people that are saying, "Please help me, please let me keep my home, please let me keep my car, please recognize me as a vital human being," they are falling on deaf ears.

- Suze Orman

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Fall, Home, Broken Spirit, Deaf Ears, Saying Please

You'll always face problems. When you experience hard times, immerse your mind in God thoughts. Turn a deaf ear to doubters. Set your mind on a holy cause. Once you find your mountain, no giant will stop you, no age will disqualify you, and no problem will defeat you.

- Max Lucado

source: Source: ww2.christianpost.com

topic: Hard Times, Mind, Age, Deaf Ears

Faith is not a soft option offered to people who need a crutch to get through the rest of their lives. Faith is the supernatural activity of God whereby He opens blind eyes, unstops deaf ears, and a man or a woman says- “I see it now. I get it now. I am going to trust in God. I am going to trust in Jesus.

- Alistair Begg

topic: Jesus, Eye, Men, Deaf Ears, Blind Eyes

Who would have guessed that the shots heard 'round the world 225 years ago would fall on deaf ears in a nation now more sympathetic to the gun-grabbing Redcoat than the gun-bearing rebel?

- Michelle Malkin

topic: Fall, Gun, Years, Deaf Ears, Grabbing

When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.

- Haim Ginott

topic: Children, Fall, Frustration, Deaf Ears, Rebuke

But if you miss it, you will next be confronted with the angry deities, ... threatening you and barring your passage ... because you turned a deaf ear to the saving truths of religion. All these forms are strange to you, ... they terrify you, ... and yet it is you who have created them. Do not give in to your fright, ... flee them not! They are but ... the contents of your own mind... If at this point you should manage to understand that, ... and you will find yourself in a paradise among the angels.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Book, Angel, Giving, Deaf Ears

Consumers cannot think in abstractions. They cannot envision a new concept. They cannot predict their behavior. They can only compare against their current frame of reference. So you need to make the big leap for them. You need to provide them with a reason to buy, a reason to brag to their friends. Expect new-to-the-world ideas to fall on deaf ears. Consumers will, however, change their tune when they can see, touch, and explore.

- Michael J. Silverstein

topic: Fall, Thinking, Ideas, Deaf Ears, Frame Of Reference

You read statistics all the time like, "13 million people are at risk because of the severe drought in East Africa," but I think those kinds of numbers fall on deaf ears - there's so much devastation in the world, that it's a bit overwhelming for people.

- Scarlett Johansson

source: Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

topic: Fall, Thinking, Numbers, Deaf Ears, East Africa

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Men, Peers, Noble, Deaf Ears

Highly technical philosophical arguments of the sort many philosophers favor are absent here. That is because I have a prior problem to deal with. I have learned that arguments, no matter how watertight, often fall on deaf ears. I am myself the author of arguments that I consider rigorous and unanswerable but that are often not such much rebutted or even dismissed as simply ignored.

- Daniel Dennett

source: Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

topic: Fall, Philosophical, Atheism, Deaf Ears

Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled; in a wheelchair; hare lip; ethnic minorities; handicapped; spinster; committed suicide; gypsies; Bombay; illegitimate daughter; air hostess; Siamese twins; Calcutta; deaf ears; illegal asylum seeker; province of Northern Ireland; grandmother; bachelor.

- Rod Liddle

topic: Daughter, Suicide, Grandmother, Career Women, Asylum Seekers

When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it.

- Slim Moon

topic: Fall, Artist, Ears, Deaf Ears

You know, I say in my lyrics, "Every word I write will be analyzed by somebody white." It's just that I know that this sh*t is just not gonna fall on deaf ears.

- Ice T

source: Interview with Jorge Hinojosa, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Fall, Writing, White, Deaf Ears

It seems unbelievable that a man should perish in whose favor Christ said to His Mother: 'Behold thy son', provided that he has not turned a deaf ear to the words, which Christ addressed to him: 'Behold thy Mother.'

- Robert Bellarmine

topic: Christian, Mother, Son, Deaf Ears, Holy Mary

Though now this grained face of mine be hid In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, And all the conduits of my blood froze up, Yet hath my night of life some memory, My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left, My dull deaf ears a little use to hear.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2003). “The Comedy of Errors”, p.174, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Memories, Winter, Night, Deaf Ears

I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear.

- James M. Barrie

topic: Men, Research, Ears, Deaf Ears, Raleigh