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“When we say 'time', I believe we mean at least two things. We mean changes. And we mean something unchangeable. We mean something that moves . but against an unmoving background. And vice versa.Animals can sense changes. But consciousness of time involves the double sense of constancy and change. Which can only be attributed to those who give expression to it. And that can only be done through language, and only man has language.The perception of time and language are inextricably bound up with one another.”

Men Giving Believe Mean Two Done Moving Language I Believe Animal Consciousness Expression Perception Bounds Vices Backgrounds Two Things Vice Versa Constancy Unchangeable

Book:Borderliners: A Novel

Source: Borderliners: A Novel

“Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.”

Play Language Figures Expression Perception Relation Preserves Replay

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes them - without distortion which would mar their exact significances - into an intense expression of his perceptions and ardors that they may constitute a revelation in the speech that he uses. It isn't what he says that counts as a work of art, it's what he makes, with such intensity of perception that it lives with an intrinsic movement of its own to verify its authenticity.”

Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

“The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it is not here given, and is never given, any other role to play, and apart from this consideration it would surely never have occurred to anybody to try to represent as some single kind of things the things which the ordinary man says that he 'perceives.”

Men Trying Kind Play Given Roles Trouble Expression Materials Perception Ordinary Data Perceive Consideration Material Things Ordinary Man Foils

Author:J. L. Austin

“There are cells in the brain that respond to faces. This is one of the reasons that I deal with portraiture. We can learn a lot about our perception of facial expression from the behavior of these cells.”

Reason Faces Deals Brain Expression Behavior Perception Cells Facial Portraiture Facial Expression

Author:Eric Kandel

“Of one thing we can be sure: our own future is inseparable from the larger community that brought us into being and which sustains us in every expression of our human quality of life, in our aesthetic and emotional sensitivities, our intellectual perceptions, our sense of the divine, as well as in our physical nourishment and bodily healing.”

Humans Wells Community Healing Quality One Thing Emotional Divine Expression Perception Intellectual Aesthetic Sensitivity Quality Of Life Nourishment Inseparable Human Qualities

Book:The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

“It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.”

Art Quality Expression Perception Determine Mediums Significance

Book:The Calvin & Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

Source: The Calvin & Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

“My father has this expression that you have to be able to look yourself in the eyes in the mirror, you know, and know that you're a good person. If that's true and you feel good about yourself then that's all that matters no matter what other people's perceptions are.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Looks Persons Matter Eye Able Father Expression Perception Mirrors No Matter What Feel Good About Yourself Good Person

Author:Stephanie McMahon

“See the other person's potential for kindness and bolster your own expression of kindness. If you see them in a negative way, the power of your perception will only help to keep them that way as you polarize yourself from them, assuming a superior role, seeing yourself as the good guy and them as the bad guy.”

Ifs Way Persons Helping Guy Roles Kindness Seeing Expression Perception Negative Assuming Superiors Bad Guys Good Guy Seeing Yourself

Author:Sharon Gannon

“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.”

Powerful Expression Communication Offers Perception Photography Infinite Photographer Photograph Mediums Variety Interpretation Execution Inspirational Photography Inspiring Photography Art Photography Landscape Photography Doors Of Perception

Book:Singular images

Source: Singular images

“Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.”

Source: At Swim-two-birds

“The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.”

Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill