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. ~ Steve Jobs

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls. ~ Mother Teresa

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. ~ Mark Twain

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. ~ Jean Arp

I think there’s something strangely musical about noise. ~ Trent Reznor

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. ~ Cyril Connolly

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. ~ Nate Silver

Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls. ~ Margaret Heffernan

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. ~ Edward F. Halifax

God is gone up on high with a triumphant noise. ~ Charles Wesley

The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty. ~ Daphne Koller

I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise. ~ Chip Kidd

I think there’s an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face – that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society. ~ Trevor Phillips

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. ~ Thomas Keating

I’ve kept my phone on silent for a year and a half. For me, it’s too much noise. It’s not my jam. I like to keep things a lot more easygoing. The world’s not going to stop if you don’t pick up your phone. ~ Carly Pope

The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion. ~ Mumia Abu-Jamal