We all have a personal recipe for productivity. One person may need six cups of autonomy and just a pinch of collaboration. Another person may require heaps of sociability and noise, with just a teaspoon of occasional privacy.
Do we want to be successful, or do we just want to make noise just to make it? Or just to put something on the record? I’ll be honest with you, I’m tired of putting stuff on the record. I’m ready to see some real transformation and change.
Break as few bones as possible and make as much noise as you can.
We knew what was going on with Spygate. We were in football mode, and it didn’t impact our day-to-day. There’s so much noise on the outside – ‘You’re cheaters, you’re this, you’re that’ – but the easiest way to settle that is to go 18-0 and go to the Super Bowl.
People are making a lot more noise about representation and diversity. But I think modeling is one of the professions where people can be kind of racist.
There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.
Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, ‘cuz I like noise.
It’s time to focus on what I care about and not let the noise take over my brain.
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
I think there’s something strangely musical about noise.
It’s easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
I listen to everything: noise, classical, jazz. I like lots of different types of food. There’s no way you could get me to eat the same meal everyday, so why would I do the same with music?
Any time I see Kansas City on the schedule, especially when it’s an away game, you start to think about the experience of playing in Arrowhead and how difficult it is to come in and play with the noise and how great those fans are.
I’ve always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.
The ‘Downward Spiral’ album was a record all about beating everybody up – and then ‘Hurt’ was like a coda saying maybe I shouldn’t have done that. But to make the song sound impenetrable because I thought it was a little too vulnerable, I tried to layer it in noise.
Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
A lot of what I’ve done as Nine Inch Nails has been governed by fear. I was trying to keep the songs in a framework that was tough, and I learnt a lot from Jesus and Mary Chain about how to bury nice pop songs in unlistenable noise – the idea being if you can get behind that wall, you find there’s a pearl inside.
I do like to just have football on, so I will TiVo, like, three or four games for the weekend, and I’ll just turn it on when there’s no live football on, just to have the background noise.
I noticed that when I touched the ball on the field, you could hear this shrill noise in the crowd with all the birds screaming like at a Beatles concert.
There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
Everyone’s like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone’s like, ‘Hey, yeah!’ and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.
I’ve heard many reports of police attending scenes of domestic violence where they’ve had to turn off music and televisions and radios. Noise tends to drive us a bit crazy.
No one wants police brutality. No one wants inequality. But what I worry about it is when a protest becomes so large and the noise takes over that the original motivation for the protest and the conversation that should go with that protest gets lost.
While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.
For me, this band and the music that I write and this touring thing that I do and playing in front of people, singing, and making a lot of noise on guitar – all that was more important than a lot of other things.
A book isn’t noise to drown out other noise.
I’m not a huge TV person. I don’t like having the noise when I’m doing other things unless I’m really lonely, and then I turn the TV on. But I do like to sit down and watch TV in the evenings.
We’re living in a society where there’s a cacophony of noise and opinion.
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
I have a group of cafes and coffee shops that I go to regularly. They usually have an area where I can plug in my computer and have a corner seat where I can do a couple hours of writing or whatever, even the noise of the surrounding people walking by. Those things are the things that stimulate me into writing.
L.A.’s a lot of noise and stuff. You always hear cars and stuff.
Stop focusing on the noise and the expectations of others, and focus on what makes you happy.
The contextual age means we’re going to have to go to war on noise.
I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it’s so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there’s no noise other than nature – and it’s so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.
If I can encourage people to stand up and take space and make noise, then I’m very happy to do so.
New roads carve up the countryside, dispelling peace, creating a penumbra of noise, pollution and ugliness. Their effects spread for many miles.
You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can’t like their music – you have to call it noise. It’s incumbent on a parent.
I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys – I jump out of my skin.
The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
‘The Villain’ gets off on the idea of disgusting the crowd and then telling the crowd to keep the noise down while he does it. The reason it works is because it comes at a point in matches where the anxiety shows.
If I want to turn up to the NWA and cause some noise, that’s exactly what I’m going to do.
A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission – what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life.
The two million or so residents who live beneath the Heathrow flight path are accustomed to the noise. However, they are right to feel that any expansion would represent an unacceptable broken promise.
Have rational expectations for future returns and avoid changing those expectations in response to the ephemeral noise coming from Wall Street.
I like the noise of democracy.
People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can’t play ‘Swanee River’ on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.
There was a time when I couldn’t watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.
I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn’t want the noise in our little back-to-back in Sheffield.
I effectively stood on the shoulders of a giant to make a little bit of noise myself. I’m a by-product of Muhammad Ali.
Scientists have suggested that some whale deaths could be a result of marine noise, often a result of military activity, offshore drilling or exploration, which can disorient the animals and send them in the wrong direction, possibly toward beaches where they get stuck instead of into the deeper ocean.
What I don’t like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that’s in my song is there because it’s supposed to be there.
I feel like there’s a lot of noise in the social space. The Vines and Instagrams of the world are gaining traction, and their solutions are perfect for their communities.
Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.
Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe – a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.
