Frame Of Reference Quotes

• None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

  Stephen Covey

  World, Maps, Territory

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• Your frame of reference is what you see.

  Jacque Fresco

  Source: onecommunityranch.org

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• Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Men, Thinking, Principles

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.141, Princeton University Press

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• Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

  Erich Fromm

  Sanity, Conventional

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Greatness and Limitations of Freud's Thought”, p.1897, Open Road Media

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• The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person.

  Carl Rogers

  Emotional, Empathy, States

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.

  M. Scott Peck

  Giving Up, Shoes, Discipline

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• Questions like, "Is my suit OK?", or "Is my job performance satisfactory?", are impossible to think about in the absence of a suitable frame of reference. For an interview suit to serve its purpose, it must make you look good relative to other candidates for the job you want. For your job performance to be satisfactory, it must compare favorably with the performance of others who want the same promotion you do. As Charles Darwin saw clearly, much of life is graded on the curve, and conventional economic models completely ignore that fact.

  Robert H. Frank

  Jobs, Thinking, Economic Models

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.

  Frank Herbert

  Memories, Fall, Reality

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.366, Penguin

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• To perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person, but without ever losing the "as if" condition. Thus, it means to sense the hurt or the pleasure of another as he senses it and to perceive the causes thereof as he perceives them, but without ever losing the recognition that it is as if I were hurt or pleased and so forth.

  Carl Rogers

  Hurt, Mean, Emotional

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I worry, that we are a people in a process of great transition and we are forgetting what we are connected to. We are losing our frame of reference.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  People, Worry, Transition

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• Our consciousness, our ideas, our frame of reference and our belief system determine whether we go to the river of life with a teaspoon, a cup, a bucket or a barrel.

  Robert Anthony

  Ideas, Rivers, Cups

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.3, Morgan James Publishing

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• Association bring you into the larger world of other people and things. Not having that is a kind of prison, a prison of such a limited consciousness, of such a limited frame of reference and association.

  Hank Azaria

  People, World, Association

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest, importance and awareness with members of one group.

  H. Ned Seelye

  Groups, Degrees, Culture

  H. Ned Seelye (1995). “Experiential Activities for Intercultural Learning”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs at some given momentin the consciousness of one man or many men, but in time it has evolving form, virtually organic extension. In time ideas can be thought of as sprouting, growing, maturing, bringing forth seed and dying like plants.

  John Dos Passos

  Knowledge, Men, Views

  John Dos Passos (2010). “The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed”, p.17, Transaction Publishers

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• I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Men, Artist, Leader

  "Maynard James Keenan". Interview with The A.V. Club, music.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.

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• I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I have ever had so I prefer that just in terms of fun factor.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Fun, Stuff, Whimsical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of the things I tell my students is that if you want to understand what's been going on and also what needs to be done, you've got to get out of the blame game. Some people on the left want to blame the rich and corporations. Some people on the right want to blame the poor and government. Either of those frames of reference gets you nowhere and they aren't even truthful. You've got to understand the dynamic itself.

  Robert Reich

  Government, Games, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does.

  Ilana Mercer

  Men, America, Doe

  "Libertarian Feminists Make A Move On Von Mises". www.economicpolicyjournal.com. March 28, 2014.

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• Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a field where language, thought and vision act upon one another. There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental and visual details to be found in more recent art... He declared that he wanted to kill art ("for myself") but his persistent attempts to destroy frames of reference altered our thinking, established new units of thought, a "new thought for that object."

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Thinking, Vision

  "Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)". Jasper Johns, "Artforum International", Volume 7, No. 3, November 1968.

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• My father was a teacher, my mama was a community worker, I taught in so many schools. So when you get that experience of how to communicate with younger people, put that hand on them and give them that old-school feeling, the maturity and adult, a lot of our kids just need the feeling of that love, and that's the frame of reference that I teach from and that's the frame of reference that all of our musicians in the Jazz at Lincoln Center.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Teacher, Father, Kids

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We all teach from that same frame of reference. We're like neighborhood - the people who have had the opportunity through this music to gain a platform and spread the message of this music, which is basically love in a form of communication that's honest and truthful.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Communication, Opportunity, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out of it, to take the good-versus-bad-people view out of it.

  Steven James

  Views, People, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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

  Fall, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• When the rich build bigger, they shift the frame of reference that shapes the demands of the near rich, who travel in the same social circles. Perhaps it's now the custom in those circles to host your daughter's wedding reception at home rather than in a hotel or country club. So the near rich feel they too need a house with a ballroom. And when they build bigger, they shift the frame of reference for the group just below them, and so on, all the way down.

  Robert H. Frank

  Daughter, Country, Home

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It's not a matter of us standing outside it and ticking off the boxes: yes, the Bible is faithful here; yes, it's telling the truth there, and so on, but rather granted that it's God-given. It's the frame of reference that shows us how to live in, tells us how to think about everything.

  D. A. Carson

  Thinking, Faithful, Matter

  Source: www.booksataglance.com

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