Filters Quotes

• I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

  Arianna Huffington

  Wisdom, Media, Mouths

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• What you see is filtered through your beliefs. You rarely see "reality." You see your version of it.

  Joe Vitale

  Inspirational, Reality, Belief

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• We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Lenses, Inward, Strongest

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• The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

  Byron Katie

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Truth

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• We're not in a world of information overload, we're in a world of filter failure.

  Michael Lazerow

  World, Information, Overload

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• The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Past, Self, Prisms

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• Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

  Patrick Ness

  Life, Men, Chaos

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• We can only see what our brain’s filter allows through.

  Eben Alexander

  Brain

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.

  Al Yankovic

  Use, I've Learned, Spam

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

  Gautama Buddha

  Powerful, Meditation, Mind

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• I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want, and do not want, to be true.

  Travis Walton

  Reality, People, Perception

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• Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Art, Past, Bores You

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.157, New Directions Publishing

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• Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.

  Dean Koontz

  Lying, Eye, Simple

  Dean Koontz (2009). “Relentless: A Novel”, p.145, Bantam

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• We shall prepare the coffee of reconciliation through the filter of justice. Through reconciliation, streams of tears will come to our eyes.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

  Coffee, Eye, Justice

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• How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera.

  John Hench

  Artist, Color, Would Be

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• It's like there's a filter set up in my brain, except instead of making things better, it twists everything around so what comes out of my mouth is totally wrong, totally different from what I was thinking.

  Lauren Oliver

  Thinking, Brain, Twists

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• Try to be a filter, not a sponge.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Trying, Sponges

  Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

  Roy H. Williams

  Media, Order, Demand

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• RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Noses, Mouths, London

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.183, 谷月社

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• In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

  B. Carroll Reece

  Running, Teaching, Ideas

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• Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.

  David Tudor

  Mixing, Sound, Principles

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• Along with filters on computers and a lock on affections, remember that the only real control in life is self-control.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Real, Self, Locks

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• I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Memories, Opportunity, Self

  "In the Land of Memory" by Adam Dunn, edition.cnn.com. October 27, 2000.

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