Perception Quotes - Page 19

• Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

  Immanuel Kant

  Imagination, Ingredients, Realizing

  "Critique of Pure Reason" by Immanuel Kant, (A 120), (1781; 1787).

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• You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.

  Norton Juster

  Character, Simple, Essence

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• The meaning and the purpose behind some events are unknowable. This is the ultimate test of our faith. We must trust that everyone in life is here to learn different lessons at different times, that good and bad experiences are only the perceptions of man. After all, some of your worst experiences have truly been your best. They've sculpted you, trained you, developed within you a sensitivity and set you in a direction that reaches out to impact your ultimate destiny.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Destiny, Men

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• The tremendous population increase has made meditation and psychic perception, things that come naturally to spiritually evolved people, difficult to practice and participate in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Practice, People

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• Everything is a state of mind. Astral travel is the ability to wander through different states of mind and develop psychic perceptions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Mind, Different

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• Power is the thing that holds a band of perception together, and a band of perception is life for those who perceive in that band. If the band of perception were to go away, they would not exist.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, Going Away, Together

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• Dharma is the Truth that all of existence is. It does not disagree with anything. It is the perception of existence in its purest formlessness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Doe, Existence

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• The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Self, Ideas

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• In meditation the mind stops, thought ceases. When thought stops, the world stops. When the world stops, perception stops. When perception stops, the sense of "I" as a perceiver falls away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fall, Humility, Buddhism

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• If we really reflect and discriminate, we'll find that all things are created by our perception, that all states exist within the mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Mind, States

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• Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Action, Existence

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• If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn.

  Floyd Abrams

  Thinking, People, Police

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• Psychic awareness leads to a true perception not only of events, but just of life itself. It is its own raison d'etre.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Events, Awareness

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• The psychic perception is a feeling as opposed to a thinking. Not a feeling that is engendered through emotion necessarily. It comes from the psychic plane of intuition, which is another stage of our mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Psychics, Feelings

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• The lack of predictability with television is something that's constantly changing what your perception of who you think your character is.

  Lucy Liu

  Character, Thinking, Television

  "Lucy Liu’s Independent Woman". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 30, 2014.

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• People must be aware of their problems in a realistic way. They must be able to analyse their problems and to work out common solutions. In other words a community is easily divided when their perception of the same thing is different

  Steven Biko

  Work Out, People, Community

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• With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication - a sophistication born of subtlety and depth of perception, not complexity and perceived virtuosity.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Technology, Order, Substance

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• In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of us are even more intensely preoccupied with our histories than we were while living in Yugoslavia. His narrative structured out of realistic details and perceptions with self-conscious meditation blending history, civilization and its discontents, and personal experience reaches a density and intensity akin to Krasznahorkai's and Thomas Bernhard's. An intensely idiosyncratic narrative, enjoyable and thoughtful.

  Josip Novakovich

  Thoughtful, Self, Yugoslavia

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• An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the superiorly searching perception with which that world outside of man's contamination can be penetrated and the truth drawn out from it.

  Morris Graves

  Men, Artist, Design

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• Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, [the missionary William Elliot Griffis [1843-1928], the scientist Edward Sylvester Morse [1838-1925], and the writer Lafcadio Hearn], and then for the marvelous reconstruction of how Japan worked on their minds, radically changing their perceptions of the country and the whole relationship between East and West--between the barbarian and the civilized. The book is a tour de force.

  Edwin O. Reischauer

  Country, Book, Eye

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• In our worldly perceptions of Jesus, we tend to embrace the kindness of his love ('be encouraged') but not the discipline of his love ('and sin no more'). But with the whole scope of his love, or maturity in Christ, we begin relying on him for guidance where we would prefer him to walk beside us rather than behind us.

  Criss Jami

  Jesus, Kindness, Maturity

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.23, Criss Jami

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• The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Ties, Comic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.85, Harvard University Press

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• I'd been keeping tour diaries, and especially when I go somewhere where I felt the experience might be interesting, like Eastern Europe or South America or whatever, where the whole perception of what I was doing there and stuff that I was seeing and music I was hearing, I could put all that into a diary.

  David Byrne

  America, Europe, Interesting

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2006.

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• A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom.

  Roz Savage

  Expectations, People, Desire

  "Oceans apart". Interview with Ed Douglas, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2007.

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• All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.

  Coventry Patmore

  Love, Sunshine, Men

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.13, Lulu.com

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