Sensory Quotes - Page 2

• It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.

  J. Maarten Troost

  Appreciated, Deprivation, American Life

  J. Maarten Troost (2006). “Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu”, p.8, Broadway Books

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• I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time.

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli

  Thinking, Quality, Sound

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• My show is a sensory assault... in a very brief manner - the show is only 25 minutes long.

  Kesha

  Long, Assault, Minutes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Appreciation, Wine, Civilization

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2197, Simon and Schuster

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• There are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled in a sensory way that we just say no to.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Way, Just Say No, Fulfilled

  "Jonathan Safran Foer on the Morality of Vegetarianism". Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, www.theatlantic.com. December 11, 2009.

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• I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a painful impression of a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.

  Anais Nin

  Beautiful, Psychics, World

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• Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory pleasure - nobody would invent a chair or dish that smelled bad or that made horrible noises - why were motors invented noisy? How could they possibly be considered complete or successful inventions with this glaring defect? Unless, of course, the aggressive, hostile, assaultive sound actually served to express some impulse of the owner.

  Philip Slater

  Attitude, Successful, Feelings

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• I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept a careful journal of the experience that was very helpful in terms of my sensory impressions of Africa. I have traveled quite a bit at distinct times in my life, though now that I have kids I've settled down.

  Jennifer Egan

  Mother, Brother, Kids

  "Author Jennifer Egan: Making Her Own Rules". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 25, 2011.

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• The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well, and is kind to sound - letting it travel several times faster than air will allow, but it inhibits other more personal kinds of communication.

  Lyall Watson

  Communication, Air, Water

  "Jacobson's Organ and The Remarkable Nature Of Smell" by Lyall Watson, www.nytimes.com. 2000.

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• All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

  Norman Cousins

  Brain, Body, Input

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• Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.

  David Abram

  Ecosystems, Perception, Nervous

  David Abram (2010). “Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology”, p.134, Vintage

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• I know of several children and adults (with Asperger’s Syndrome) who have reported a considerable reduction in visual sensitivity and sensory overload when wearing Irlen lenses.

  Tony Attwood

  Children, Adults, Lenses

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• There are many facts within fiction. This captivating story provides invaluable insights into the childhood of a girl who has Asperger’s syndrome. Fiction allows the author to explore different perspectives and add poignancy to the experiences of sensory sensitivity and being bullied and teased of someone who has Asperger’s syndrome. The title Delightfully Different describes Asperger’s syndrome but also the qualities of this novel.

  Tony Attwood

  Girl, Perspective, Childhood

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• Enjoy the limitless bliss consciousness here and now. The reality of you lies much beyond your sensory perceptions and boundaries.

  Amit Ray

  Lying, Reality, Perception

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.94, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Writing, Sensual, Style

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• When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the drug addict feels when indulging his or her habit. Temporary relief is soon followed by a craving for more. And in just the same way that taking drugs in the end only causes trouble, so, too, does much of what we undertake to fulfill our immediate sensory desires.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Drug, Sensual

  The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• Instead of experiencing through the physical senses, I was now bobbing behind the body like a buoy at sea, cut loose from sensory solidity, separated from and witnessing the body from a vast distance.

  Suzanne Segal

  Distance, Cutting, Sea

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• We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of uncertainty and confusion.

  Epicurus

  Confusion, Opinion, Ends

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• The sensory deprivation chamber has been the most important tool that I've ever used for developing my mind

  Joe Rogan

  Mind, Important, Tools

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• The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.

  Richard Rohr

  Imagination, Darkness, Feelings

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• The man of Self-realization knows a bliss that cannot be compared to anything in this world. His joy is independent of any object or sensory experience. It is an incomparable happiness that cannot be described in words. Such joy is known as sattvik-ananda.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Independent, Men, Self

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• Somaaesthetics can be provisionally defined a the critical meliorative study of one's experience and use of one's body as a locus of sensory-aesthetic appreciation (aesthesis) and creative self-fashioning. It is therefore also devoted to the knowledge, discourses, and disciplines that structure such somatic care or can improve it.

  Richard Shusterman

  Appreciation, Philosophy, Self

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• Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and range of movement that can afford our sensory organs greater scope in giving us knowledge of the world. Besides augmenting our own possibilities of pleasure , such improved somatic functioning and awareness can give us greater power in performing virtuous acts for the benefit of others, since all action somehow depends on the efficacy of our bodily instrument.

  Richard Shusterman

  Philosophy, Skills, Medicine

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• Spiritual science attempts to speak about non-sensory things in the same way that the natural sciences speak about sense-perceptible things...No one can ever deny others the right to ignore the supersensible, but there is never any legitimate reason for people to declare themselves authorities, not only on what they themselves are capable of knowing, but also on what they suppose cannot be known by any other human being.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Knowing, People

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• I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to penetrate the cladding of sensory appearance and discern the abstract construction underneath - not always on demand, and not infallibly, but often enough and insightfully enough to shape the human condition. Our powers of analogy allow us to apply ancient neural structures to newfound subject matter, to discover hidden laws and systems in nature, and not least, to amplify the expressive power of language itself.

  Steven Pinker

  Thinking, Law, Keys

  Steven Pinker (2007). “The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature”, p.282, Penguin

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