Best perception & force Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus annoyance. To the viewer who has reached that level of awareness, my work is no longer abstract, but very real.”

Author:Wolf Kahn

“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.”

“Remember, most of the things you think you need are ego trips designed to bolster your image and your perception of security.... You'll waste a lot of energy satisfying your ego only to find that, as soon as it's got what it wants, it ignores all your efforts and promptly nails another list of demands to your forehead. The ego will always try to force you to slave for its vision. I wouldn't stand for that BS if I were you.”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs Trying Remember Energy Force Effort Vision Security Demand Ego Waste Perception Slave Lists Satisfying Nails Foreheads Ego Trip

Author:Stuart Wilde

“Buddhism is perception, gaining control of the mind and directing one's attention, to raise the kundalini energy so that it flows with such volatility and force that we simply perceive life correctly.”

Mind Energy Force Attention Buddhism Perception Flow Raises Buddhist Perceive Cosmology Volatility

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.”

Force Wife Special Changed Perception Soldier My Wife Our Family Childbirth Special Forces

Book:Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

Source: Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

“In the new science of the twenty-first century, not physical force but spiritual force will lead the way. Mental and spiritual gifts will be more in demand than gifts of a physical nature. Extrasensory perception will take precedence over sensory perception. And in this sphere woman will again predominate.”

Way Firsts Spiritual Science Force Century Demand Perception Twenties Spheres Sensory Precedence Physical Force Spiritual Gifts Sensory Perception

Author:Elizabeth Gould Davis

“The perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so that profit maximization is not really the driving force. It is fear of loss rather than hope of gain that limits our behavior.”

May Important Force Loss Limits Behavior Perception Survival Gains Threat Profit Driving Driving Force Profit Maximization

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.”

Humans Force Human Nature Perception Strongest

Author:Tom Peters

“Do you love me? Means at last do you see the same truth I see? If you do, we are happy together; but when presently one of us passes into the perception of a new truth, we are divorced and the force of all nature cannot hold us to each other.”

Ifs Mean Together Lasts Force Perception Divorced Do You Love Me Happy Together

Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry

Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry

“It's forcing the issue of perception by rendering an image that is just at the edge of perception, which in someway forces you to look more closely and for you to adjust your vision so you can see in the dark.”

Looks Force Dark Vision Issues Perception Edges Rendering

Author:Kerry James Marshall

“Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that's all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.”

People Thinking World Writing Helping Feelings Form Young Force Streets Perception Pages Pressure Sentences Young Writers

Author:Don DeLillo

“It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.”

Force Results Behinds Music Perception Music Is Discovery Jazz Instinct Musical Intuition Driving Driving Force Blues Music Music Theory

Author:Albert Einstein

“I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.”

Men Mind Eye Religion Force Religious Degrees Perception Humorous

Book:Adventures of Tom Sawyer Companion

Source: Adventures of Tom Sawyer Companion

“Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy. Finally, meritocracy as an operation and scientific culture as an ideology created veils that hindered perception of the underlying operations of historical capitalism.”

Culture Individual Force Perception Capitalism Historical Contrary Ideology Operations Threatening Veils Hierarchy Framework Mobility Meritocracy Allocation

Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

“Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.”

World Way Humans Looks Language Force Progress Ignorance Communication Perception Barriers Old Fashioned Frozen Human Progress Encyclopedia

Author:Edward de Bono

“The Force is really a way of feeling; it's a way of being with life. It really has nothing to do with weapons. The Force gives you the power to have extrasensory perception and to be able to see things and hear things, read minds and levitate things. It is said that certain creatures are born with a higher awareness of the Force than humans. Their brains are different; they have more midi-chlorians in their cells.”

Way Giving Mind Humans Said Different Feelings Able Certain Force Born Ability Brain Power Awareness Higher Creatures Perception Weapons Science Fiction Cells Filmmaker Levitation Midi

Author:George Lucas

“To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason. It is the joyful, spontaneous expression of one's self. The inner force materializes the feeling and perception without planning or effort. That is what play is.”

Want Self Reason Play Feelings Form Force Effort Expression Perception Planning Joyful Spontaneous Imperatives

Author:Michele Cassou

“To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight”

Men Mean Reality Force Judgment Perception Survival Destruction Sight Threat Perception Reality

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

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