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“Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc., which will appear in the next generation of human organizations will drive our present organizational forms, with their clumsy nervous systems, into extinction.”

“People see dark faces out there, and the perception is that they're African American. They're not us. They're impostors.”

People Faces Dark Perception African American

Author:Torii Hunter

“Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.”

Soul Universe Causes Movement Perception All Things Regard Substance Thread Spinning Cooperating

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.”

World Life Is Our Lives Perception

Book:The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle

Source: The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle

“The ability to know that your perceptions are accurate has to happen without others' validation. Intuition is not the result of diet, rituals, or wind chimes. It's the natural consequence of having self-esteem, the greatest power you can have. With self-esteem, your life can broaden into an adventure because you can know in your gut that you can handle the unknown. And you can handle helping others without fear, which is true liberation.”

“I always thought death was cruel, a silent destroyer of breath, of hope, of life. Now I understand it is physical death, the perception of it, the fear of it, which often saves us; for death marks the end of our flesh causing us to question the future of what we are.”

Ends Perception Mark Breaths Silent Flesh Deep Thought Destroyers

Author:Stefanie Schneider

“Sometimes as you work, you find that you are learning things about your own perceptions and motivations that are way below you consciousness. If you get lucky, you recognize what you are doing, but all too often we don't find the connection between our work and our own motivations.”

Ifs Way Sometimes Motivation Consciousness Lucky Perception Photography Connections Photographer Lucky You

Book:Light, Gesture, and Color

Source: Light, Gesture, and Color

“Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.”

Looks Made Vision Plans Emotional Perception Photography Photographer Ignorant Visuals Blinders

Author:Jay Maisel

“You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.”

Believe Belief Seeing Possibility Perception Katie

Author:Byron Katie

“I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'.”

Artist Culture Perception Jokes Western Heal Comic Guise Western Culture

Author:Bill Hicks

“Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you.”

Knows Reality Might Lord Perception Illusion Heal Lifts Lift Me Up

Author:Bill Hicks

“When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of 'symbolic images.' The first step to thinking is a painted vision of these inner pictures whose origin cannot be reduced only and firstly to the sensual perception but which are produced by an 'instinct to imagining' and which are re-produced by different individuals independently, i.e. collectively... But the archaic image is also the necessary predisposition and the source of a scientific attitude. To a total recognition belong also those images out of which have grown the rational concepts.”

Thinking Firsts Ideas Different Individual Attitude Vision Steps Source Perception Conscious Concepts Instinct Rational Recognition Sensual First Steps Symbolic

Author:Wolfgang Pauli

“Disney is our contemporary landscape. The best art will reflect that and challenge you. Disney comforts you, whereas the best art shakes up your comfort level and perception.”

Art Challenges Levels Comfort Perception Contemporary Landscape Shakes Best Art

Author:Jeffrey Deitch

“Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘Green?’ How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?”

Source: Philip Taaffe: composite nature : a conversation with Stan Brakhage

“Every emotion, from despair all of the way up to ecstasy; from complete Connection to who-you-really-are, all the way to pinching yourself off pretty severely, all of those emotions are about your perception of freedom, or your perception of bondage—every one of them.”

Way Emotion Despair Perception Connections Ecstasy Bondage Pinching

Author:Esther Hicks

“In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.”

Character Novel Ego Perception

Author:Elizabeth Moon

“Eating a RAW food lifestyle is the purest and best way to live. Many of the strongest and longest living animals are raw, such as the panda bear and gorillas. Self love has brought me to a RAW lifestyle. Feeding my body with pure natural energy. Most people's perception is what has been ingrained inside them by manipulation, but slowly there is a shift in consciousness, one person at a time. People will ask more questions, begin to stand up for themselves, go their “own way”, take better care of themselves, which will benefit everyone and everything around them.”

“Inside we are all Golden Buddha's, but we grew to believe we were made of clay. Our ego's false perceptions led us to grow into a belief system that covered our inner light. We've spent years, maybe decades, masking our truth. Now it's time to embrace our light and reconnect with our Golden Buddha within.”

Years Believe Made Light Belief Grows Grew Ego Perception Embrace Decades Golden Covered Clay Belief Systems Inner Light False Perception

Book:May Cause Miracles: A 6-week Kick-start to Unlimited Happiness

Source: May Cause Miracles: A 6-week Kick-start to Unlimited Happiness

“Perception of a state is not the state.”

States Perception

Book:Nova Swing

Source: Nova Swing

“We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.”

World Walks Perception Finished Museums Patron

Author:Terence McKenna

“Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic.”

Ifs Thinking Way Important Realizing Walks Tree Streets Perception Memes

Author:Susan Blackmore

“Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the deep silence of our own Being. This is not the silence of a stone, but creative silence. We have to find it for ourselves. We decrease activity until silence becomes creative, and we sit in creative silence and close the gates of perception for insight into the content of life.”

Mind Culture Silence Creative Meditation Fields Activity Perception Research Stones Insight Gates Silence Is Decrease

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.”

Humans Understanding Awareness Perception Increase Complexity Deliberate Human Relations Human Relationships Impart Liberal Education Complexity Of Human

Author:Sidney Hook

“Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.”

Men Wells Children Character Feelings Parent Teacher Objects Taste Perception Aim Sentiments Formation Harmonious Curb Propensity Dormant Parents And Teachers

Book:Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed

Source: Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed

“Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you”

Thinking Needs Able Perception Need You

Author:Julian Assange

“Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.”

Perception Killing Verify

Book:The wars

Source: The wars

“We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.”

Knows Men Reality Perception My Friends

Book:The Left Behind Collection

Source: The Left Behind Collection

“Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that.”

World Theory Perception Data Perceive Controversial

Author:David Chalmers

“By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.”

Mind Able Inspiring Silence Perception Drawing Senses Inward Quietness

Book:Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom

Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom

“Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.”

Form Opportunity Individual Causes Grief Consciousness Progress Evolution Perception Evolve Aspiration Internals Mechanism Flawed Individual Success

Author:B.K.S. Iyengar

“There is evidence that acupuncture influences the production of and distribution of a great many neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, and that this in turn alters the perception of pain.”

Pain Turns Influence Perception Evidence Productions Great Men Distribution Acupuncture Neurotransmitters

Author:David Eisenberg

“Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.”

World Please Perception Perception Of The World

Author:Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

“Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.”

Pain Desire Pleasure Perception Pain And Pleasure

Author:Aristotle

“I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don't have any regard for anyone else's perception.”

Want Play Motivational Sports Team Perception Regard Perceive

Author:Bill Parcells

“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”

Source: Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook

“I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth”

People Writing Book Kids Cities Perception Foundation Grants Urban Phantoms Books For Kids Phantom Tollbooth

Author:Norton Juster

“We are evolving from five-sensory humans into multisensory humans.... The perceptions of the multi-sensory human extend beyond physical reality to the larger dynamical systems of which our physical reality is a part.”

Humans Reality Five Perception Evolve Sensory

Author:Gary Zukav

“Reverence is an attitude of honoring life. Reverence automatically brings forth patience. Reverence permits non-judgemental justice. Reverence is a perception of the soul.”

Soul Justice Attitude Perception Permit Reverence Judgemental Non Judgemental

Author:Gary Zukav

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

Source: Tempest-tost

“I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions”

Ideas Wanted Fun Felt Perception I Realized Magazines Having Fun Columns

Author:Tina Brown

“When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God.”

Names Sex Perception Instinct Thelema

Book:The Equinox Vol. 3. No. 1.

Source: The Equinox Vol. 3. No. 1.

“The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.”

Culture Consciousness Perception Tasks Alternatives Ministry Dominant Nurture Evoke Prophetic Dominant Culture

Author:Walter Brueggemann

“The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.”

World Humans Art Mystery This World Perception

Book:When I Was A Child I Read Books

Source: When I Was A Child I Read Books

“I came away from the talk with the perception that the risk of adverse side effects is so much greater than the risk of cervical cancer, I couldn’t help but question why we need the vaccine at all.”

Needs Helping Sides Greater Risk Effects Perception Cancer Vaccines Adverse Side Effects Cervical Cancer

Author:Joan Robinson

“People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them, what good do they do?”

People Ifs Thinking Want Enjoy Loses Worry Materials Perception Spend Time Material Things

Author:Eric Davis

“Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality”

Wells Reality Perception Linked

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.”

Culture Modern Perception Mark Western Distinctive Western Culture

Book:The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners

Source: The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners

“The Principle which gives life dwells in us, and without us, is undying and beneficent, is not heard or seen or smelt, but it is perceived by the man who desires perception.”

Men Giving Desire Principles Heard He Man Perception

Author:Mabel Collins

“Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled people who are perfectly healthy but often convinced they're not.”

People Way Fun Fashion Healthy Perception Tough Intelligent Convinced Vulgar Amusing Poke Rambling

Author:Vincent Canby

“In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak.”

Humans Made Different Seems Today Speak Stars Special Perception Studios Exposed Movie Star

Author:Richard D. Zanuck