Noise Quotes

“There is more said in silence than in a crowd of thousands.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Music was no longer my friend but I left my headphones on round the clock just to keep the outside noise out of my head.”
― Mark Lanegan, Devil in a Coma

“Animals might whimper if they're hungry or cold. But they dont start screaming. It's a bad idea. The more noise you make the more likely you are to be eaten. If you've no way to escape you keep silent. If birds couldnt fly they wouldnt sing. When you're defenseless you keep your opinions to yourself.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“There is an unexpected richness and beauty living an ordinary life most people miss because of all the noise surrounding them.”
― Lisa C. Miller, Nightly Inspirations from the Heart of God

“If we do not protect the quiet around us, there will always be noise within us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Too often ‘all of the noise’ is a ruse designed to convince us that ‘all of the noise’ is more than just ‘all of the noise.’ However, everything gets terribly sticky when the people making ‘all of the noise’ genuinely come to believe that ‘all of the noise’ that they’re making is more than just ‘all of the noise.’ For when that happens, you can’t even hear the noise because of all the noise.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Silence is the space that we create when all of the noise around us finally realizes that it hasn’t said anything, that it’s not going to say anything, but it can’t bring itself to shut up.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We have to be part of the silence in order to cherish and understand the silence completely.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Growth is silent, but fall creates a huge noise”
― CGJ

“Anything that occupies your mind is your occupation. For some people quarreling is an occupation. They fear losing it more than a job-goer fears losing job. Because emptiness of mind is scarier than emptiness of stomach.”
― Shunya

“When you can manage your time and block out unnecessary distractions and mute the “noise” that tends to send you into a state of confusion and disarray, you are better able to give the people, work, and activities the enthusiasm they deserve, to make it every moment of the day count, and to dedicate the time and effort each person deserves.”
― Carlos Wallace

“Don’t mistake noise for anything other than noise.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“And no sound from outside or anywhere. That must be the thing when you have money, I think. You never have to hear anything you don't want to, ever.”
― Megan Abbott, Give Me Your Hand

“Noise will always sound the death of silence.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“The quest to rid ourselves of complete colonization by noise and to recover our sense of quiet goodness should be as necessary and perpetual as our quest to rid ourselves of air pollution.”
― Zen Master Bopjong, The Sound of Water, the Sound of Wind: And Other Early Works by a Mountain Monk

“Sometimes I’ll lie awake at night and listen to the sound of the clock. The motor ticks on endlessly. What an unsettling sound it is when you’ve yet to find peace - to find solace. Sometimes no matter how exhausted my body is, no matter how tired my thoughts are, no matter how sore my brain and my heart are...even then I still can’t fall asleep. Sometimes I wish for nothing more than to sleep. Please, allow me to slip away into the darkest corners of the world and let me be. Just let me sleep. You can close your eyes to the surroundings, but you can’t close your ears off to the sound around it. And sometimes the things you wish the most not to hear - are the loudest. They will not go away in the night and be silenced.”
― Christina Casino

“The wise man listens to meaning; the fool only gets the noise. The modern Greek poet C. P. Cavafy wrote a piece in 1915 after Philostratus’ adage “For the gods perceive things in the future, ordinary people things in the present, but the wise perceive things about to happen.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

“It was hard to tell the signal from the noise. The story the data tells us is often the one we’d like to hear, and we usually make sure that it has a happy ending.”
― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't

“In statistics, the name given to the act of mistaking noise for a signal is overfitting.”
― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't

“The name overfitting comes from the way that statistical models are “fit” to match past observations. The fit can be too loose—this is called underfitting—in which case you will not be capturing as much of the signal as you could. Or it can be too tight—an overfit model—which means that you’re fitting the noise in the data rather than discovering its underlying structure.”
― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't

“Real estate is a powerful investment tool for anyone seeking financial independence or freedom. It is a unique investment tool. Yet every time I mention real estate as a vehicle, I often hear, “I don’t want to fix toilets.” That’s what Peter Lynch calls noise. That’s what my rich dad would say is the cynic talking, someone who criticizes and does not analyze, someone who lets their doubts and fears close their mind instead of open their eyes.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

“My interest in music was non-existent. I never put on a record or picked up a guitar or sat at the keyboard and didn't care if I ever did again.”
― Mark Lanegan, Devil in a Coma

“Dampen excess noise [in the dining room]

Soften live acoustics with curtains and soft furnishings to improve speech intelligibility.”
― Oliver Heath, Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

“Noises that can reduce the difference between the background ambient hum and sudden loud sounds include:
~ White noise- this is a continuous mechanical-type noise, like the gentle hum of a motor, that covers the whole hearing range of frequencies...
~ Pink noise- this noise boosts lower frequencies for those who find white noise too sharp, and is more akin to natural noises such as steady rainfall or wind rustling through the leaves in a tree...
~ Brown noise- this is even lower frequency noise, like thunder or a crashing waterfall.”
― Oliver Heath, Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

“... we no longer wake up with the dawn chorus and settle down for the night with the hum of crickets. But just as our circadian rhythms are affected by exposure to natural light, sounds can act as cues for our sense of time and how we feel.
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There are alarm clocks that can help with your acoustic circadian rhythms by playing birdsong to wake you and the sound of waves lapping as you go to sleep... try creating your own soundtrack for the day.”
― Oliver Heath, Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

“He was singing a song he had composed entirely without professional assistance.”
― Noel Langley, The Land of Green Ginger

“Silence has a noise all its own.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Noise is the thing that keeps us from hearing what the silence exists to tell us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The world is a loud talker but a very poor thinker. It lives on words -- very poor food, -- and on noises, --very poor music. It does not understand that solitude is the home of great thoughts and aspirations.”
― Abram J. Ryan, A Crown for Our Queen

“To convince ourselves of the amazing variety of noises, it is enough to think of the rumble of thunder, the whistle of the wind, the roar of a waterfall, the gurgling of a brook, the rustling of leaves, the clatter of a trotting horse as it draws into the distance, the lurching jolts of a cart on pavings, and of the generous, solemn, white breathing of a nocturnal city; of all the noises made by wild and domestic animals, and of all those that can be made by the mouth of man without resorting to speaking or singing.
Let us cross a great modern capital with our ears more alert than our eyes, and we will get enjoyment from distinguishing the eddying of water, air and gas in metal pipes, the grumbling of noises that breathe and pulse with indisputable animality, the palpitation of valves, the coming and going of pistons, the howl of mechanical saws, the jolting of a tram on its rails, the cracking of whips, the flapping of curtains and flags. We enjoy creating mental orchestrations of the crashing down of metal shop blinds, slamming doors, the hubbub and shuffling of crowds, the variety of din, from stations, railways, iron foundries, spinning wheels, printing works, electric power stations and underground railways.”
― Luigi Russolo, The Art of Noise