“In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.” StatesDreamDifferencesCasesSpecialEssentialsPerceptionAbsenceWakingRelativeInputSensory Author:Stephen LaBerge
“The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one’s power to think. The ego you seek, that essential “you” which you cannot express or define, is not your emotions or inarticulate dreams, but your intellect, that judge of your supreme tribunal whom you’ve impeached in order to drift at the mercy of any stray shyster you describe as your “feeling.”” ThinkingMindSelfFeelingsDreamOrderEmotionSelf EsteemJudgingEgoEssentialsMercyIntellectSupremeEsteemBetrayedRelianceInarticulateTribunals Author:John Galt
“I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate secrets or confessions, but rather with establishing, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams.” TryingKindDreamMovingMemoriesForgetSecretTalkingEssentialsModelsRemainsIntimateConfession Author:Oskar Kokoschka
“It's our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others. That's what's essential. That's what will always make the biggest difference in our world.” WorldFeelsDreamDifferencesWonderEssentialsWho We AreOur World Author:Fred Rogers
“Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning.” ThinkingStillsDreamHonestEssentialsSingingRootsMelodyArrangementsTransmit Author:Juanes
“If I have an unusual gift, it's not that I draw particularly better than other people - I've never fooled myself about that. Rather it's that I remember things other people don't recall: the sounds and feelings and images - the emotional quality - of particular moments in childhood. Happily an essential part of myself - my dreaming life - still lives in the light of childhood.” PeopleIfsStillsMomentsFeelingsDreamLightRememberSoundQualityChildhoodEmotionalParticularEssentialsDrawsUnusualRecallsFooledStill Life Author:Maurice Sendak