Perceive Quotes - Page 38

• Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

  Myrtle Reed

  Change, Sweet, Essence

  Myrtle Reed (1911). “Master of the Vineyard”, p.28, Library of Alexandria

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• What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

  Slavoj Žižek

  What If, Way, Problem

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• True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind's judgments and defensiveness.

  Adyashanti

  Powerful, Order, Mind

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• No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

  Christopher Vokes

  Reputation, Ought

  "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 188), 1985.

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• Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Ideas, Two, Needs

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• There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Thinking, Deceit, Misery

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to develop certain trains of thought. If we feel sad or angry, still others. But suppose, with training, we become nonattached to distractions and learn to dampen these wild, emotional swings on either side of equanimity. Then we can enter that serene awareness which is the natural soil for positive, spontaneous personal growth, often called spiritual growth.

  James H. Austin

  Happy, Spiritual, Attitude

  James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.13, MIT Press

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• ... between government, business, and the public, there is a triangular community of interest. Clearly, it is in business' interest to shape its behavior to prevailing public values; it is more efficient to do so than not to do so. It is also clear that government is the high-cost alternative through which public values are imposed on corporations that do not accurately perceive these values.

  Juanita M. Kreps

  Government, Community, Alternatives

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• As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

  Isaac Newton

  Wise, Science, Men

  Sir Isaac Newton (2012). “Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect anyone else to perceive in it the emotions you have invested in it. Once this is understood, all will be well.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Secret, Done, Emotion

  Joyce Carol Oates (2007). “The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982”, Ecco

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• It feels intimate and life affirming to me when someone tweets things that appear to just be insane thoughts they had and typed out then tweeted immediately, with little or no regard for how others might perceive them, simply because they were in a state of emotional desperation and felt like they didn't want to express those thoughts to anyone else.

  Mira Gonzalez

  Emotional, Insane, Want

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.

  Rachel Cusk

  Divorce, Reality, Might

  "Go Forth (Vol. 34)". Interview with Alice Whitwham, logger.believermag.com. June 17, 2015.

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• The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.

  Aaron Belz

  Lying, Fall, Humorous

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Rich people making their houses bigger in order to make their lives happier wind up hurting their own marriages. There's a deep irony here. Do the couples perceive that irony?

  Tucker Carlson

  Hurt, Couple, Wind

  "The Situation with" Tucker Carlson, January 12, 2006.

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• It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman.

  Wangari Maathai

  Crazy, Men, West

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The clothes we wear send a message about how the world perceives us.

  Tim Gunn

  Clothes, World, Messages

  "Project Runway’s Top Gunn". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/February, 2012.

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• I've always cared about my personal style and the way people perceive me. I know a lot of times people don't get the opportunity to talk to me, so they're just going to see what I wear, see how I'm dressed, see how I present myself.

  Dwyane Wade

  Opportunity, People, Style

  "The GQ+A: Dwyane Wade On Getting Dressed, Buying A Watch, and Sitting in Tight Pants". Interview with Kristen Dold, www.gq.com. December 12, 2013.

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• Some people perceive me as an assassin or at least someone who can slip under your guard with a knife. But if you watch what I do, that's almost never the case. I'm just trying to keep the balloon in the air. It rarely turns into anything combative.

  Stephen Colbert

  Air, Knives, People

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. October 16, 2012.

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• Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Memories, Space, Cease

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• Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Expression, Soul, Individuality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2447, Delphi Classics

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• There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience , please.

  Jim Starlin

  Action, Strategy, Force

  "The Infinity Gauntlet". Comic book, Issue 3: Preparations for War, 1991.

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• Imagination is the organ through which the soul within us recognizes a soul without us; the spiritual eye by which the mind perceives and converses with the spiritualities of nature under her material forms; which tends to exalt even the senses into soul by discerning a soul in the objects of sense.

  Henry Norman Hudson

  Spiritual, Eye, Imagination

  Henry Norman Hudson (1848). “Lectures on Shakespeare”, p.122

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• All my life, since the time I was little, has been a long distraction. At least that is the way some people want to perceive it, but for me, it's given me a lot of strength.

  Hope Solo

  Long, People, Want

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• I am a big fan of Bleach, as well as other Manga titles. And I am certainly sorry if anyone was offended or upset by what they perceive to be the similarity between my work and the work of artists that I admire and who inspire me.

  Nick Simmons

  Sorry, Artist, Inspire

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• Sometimes I feel weird about time. Sometimes I feel that it doesnt go in the order we perceive it. There are... repetitions that maybe we decide not to notice because it is simpler. I like to pick up on those moments.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Order, Sometimes, Moments

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