Best perception & form Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion Against Those who are Called Free-thinkers

“Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.”

Giving Should Believe Kind Use Form Seeing Fine Circumstances Taste Perception Favors Deception Opponents Politeness Make Believe Tact

Author:Grenville Kleiser

“There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man's environment. To cope with this diversity, man's perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged "typical instance.”

Source: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

“In your system of reality you are learning what mental energy is, and how to use it. You do this by constantly transforming your thought and emotions into physical form. You are supposed to get a clear picture of your inner development by perceiving the exterior environment. What seems to be a perception, an objective concrete event independent from you, is instead the materialization of your own inner emotions, energy, and mental environment.”

Use Reality Seems Form Energy Emotion Clear Environment Events Development Perception Independent Objectives Concrete Transforming Exterior Thoughts And Emotions

Author:Seth

“That peace that we're after, lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself. You can join the game, fight the wars, play with form all you want, but to find real peace, you have to let the armor fall.”

Want War Real Play Form Lying Fall Fighting Games Effort Personality Perception Invention Disguise Armor Perception Of Others

Author:Jim Carrey

“If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.”

Ifs Form Perspective Habit Perception Patterns Status Quo

Author:Marianne Williamson

“There was not an episode [on Perception] that didn't deal with some form of mental illness, either my own, or I would be the first to notice if a defendant did a certain thing that perhaps he was suffering from this. And so we got to do some really outspoken stuff for what was otherwise a crime-solving show. And it was just a really good team.”

Ifs Firsts Shows Would Be Form Certain Suffering Stuff My Own Deals Team Crime Perception Illness Mental Illness Episodes Outspoken Good Team

Author:Eric McCormack

“The reason we can't attain the highest level of knowledge while incarnate is that we can't then wholly escape the influence of the body (and so of perception and of certain desires that take us away from thinking properly); and that prevents us from understanding fully what forms are, which one must do in order to have the highest level of knowledge.”

Thinking Reason Body Form Desire Certain Order Understanding Levels Influence Perception Highest

Author:Gail Fine

“I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.”

Inspirational Believe Form Success Winning I Believe Accepting Perception Built Insightful Compounds Accept Me Inspirational Celebrity

Author:Brad Pitt

“This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here—the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos.”

“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

“I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and to allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being: who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, perception and with voice. …but for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born in to the world to enjoy.”

“Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate entity with perceptions and reactions that express it and form it simultaneously. Disease is one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.”

Mind Persons Character Body Form Language Existence Disease Perception Doctors Reactions Entity Units Tangible

Book:The Camera My Mother Gave Me

Source: The Camera My Mother Gave Me

“The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very existence ... The Photograph then becomes a bizarre (i)medium(i), a new form of hallucination: false on the level of perception, true on the level of time: a temporal hallucination, so to speak, a modest (o)shared(i) hallucination (on the one hand 'it is not there,' on the other 'but it has indeed been'): a mad image, chafed by reality.”

Ifs Hands Reality Form Speak Levels Existence Figures Perception Evidence Mad Photograph Mediums Modest Bizarre Loaded Converses Hallucinations

Author:Roland Barthes

“I almost can’t believe I’m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don’t last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.”

Knows Believe I Can Lasts Form Hurt Imagine Risk Perception Extremes Vulnerable Exquisite Back Together What Is Love

Author:Megan McCafferty

“I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.”

Thinking Knows Body Form Energy Integrity Perception Your Body Cosmic Primal Cosmic Energy

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“The private experience that you perceive forms your world, period. But which world do you inhabit? For if you altered your private sensations of reality, then that world, seemingly the only one, would also change. You do go through transformations of beliefs all the time, and your perception of the world is different. You seem to be, no longer, the person you that you were. You are quite correct — you are not the person that you were, and your world has changed, and not just symbolically.”

Ifs World Persons Different Reality Seems Form Belief Changed Periods Perception Transformation Perceive Sensations Altered Perception Of The World

Book:The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know

Source: The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know

“Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.”

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent behavior seems to vary directly with his perception of others as individual humans with human motives and feelings, whereas his capacity for barbarism seems related to his perception of an adversary in abstract terms, as the embodiment, that is, of some evil design or ideology.”

“We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.”

Needs Humans Doe Reason Might Form Social Imagine Society Perception Property Historical Various Determined Pathology Social Being

Book:The Chomsky - Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

Source: The Chomsky - Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

“I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended to.”

Form Stuff Objects Perception Philosophical Colour

Author:Jonathan Ive

“Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.”

Thinking Wells Would Be Form Difficult Understanding Wife Moon Computer Perception My Wife Enjoyment Elizabethan

Author:Mark Rylance

“A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive.”

Ifs Long Running Form Views Novel Perception Advantage Crafts Variety Novelists Colour Contracts Long Runs Symptoms Shifting Intermittent

Author:E. M. Forster

“Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception. Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles. Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. Cease being a prisoner of the body; using the secret key of KRIYA, learn to escape into Spirit.”

May Body Form Spirit Secret Trouble Journey Keys Perception Essence Infinite Misery Bones Flesh Cease Delusion Prisoner Riding Nests Balloons Bundles

Author:Lahiri Mahasaya

“For me, now, feminist art must show a consciousness of women's social and economic position in the world. I also believe it demonstrates forms and perceptions that are drawn from a sense of spiritual kinship between women.”

World Believe Art Shows Spiritual Form Social Consciousness Economic Position Perception Feminist Kinship Feminist Art

Author:Suzanne Lacy

“I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desert—under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that is essentially indirect and sideways.Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home–not by story or blood but merely by their forms and colors. How our perceptions are our only internal map of the world, how there are places that claim you and places that warn you away. How you can fall in love with the light.”

“What is this world condition? Body is the world condition. And with body and form goes feeling, perception, consciousness, and all the activities throughout the world. The arising of form and the ceasing of form-everything that has been heard, sensed, and known, sought after and reached by the mind-all this is the embodied world, to be penetrated and realized.”

World Mind Has Beens Feelings Body Form Consciousness Known Heard Conditions This World Activity Perception Buddhist

Author:Gautama Buddha

“If a tablet is not wiped clean of it's figures, nothing can be written upon it. A single heart cannot serve as the place for two things, let alone for several things. If the heart is filled with the forms of sensory perceptions, it is rare that it would perceive the meaning of Allah, even if one were to say Allah a thousand times. When the heart is empty of all that is other-than-God, if one uttered Allah only once, one would find such bliss that the tongue could not describe.”

Ifs Heart Two Form Written Figures Thousand Perception Empty Filled Clean Tongue Perceive Bliss Two Things Emptiness Sensory Tablets Sensory Perception

Author:Ibn Ata Allah

“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

“Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed”

Hands Form Artist Bits Perception Photograph Portraits

Book:Stumbling on Happiness

Source: Stumbling on Happiness

“The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. That is propaganda at its most extreme form.”

World Children Form Mother Shapes Perception Extremes Tongue Propaganda Mother Tongue

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion and detached from the reality of my unreal environment. I was an instrument in a virtual world that constantly renewed its own meaningless image in a living world that was itself perceived outside of nature. And since the appearance of things was no longer definitive but limitless, this paradisiacal awareness freed me from the reality external to myself. The fire and the rose, as it were, became one.”

Source: I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon

“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.”

“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

“All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates.”

World Form Felt Perception Versions Traveler Blazing Disinterest Perception Of The World Wild Places

Book:Wild Places

Source: Wild Places

“The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush. As the eye functions as the brain's sentry, I communicate my innermost perceptions through the art, my worldview.”

Art Dream Eye Form Artist Stuff Brain Perception Function Communicate Seeds Brushes Worldview

Author:Arshile Gorky

“There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.”

Firsts Action Form Certain Situation Psychology Possibility Type Perception Constitution Filled Endless Typical Repetition Psychics Representing Archetype Engraved Situations In Life

Author:Carl Jung

“Once there is a certain degree of Presence, of still and alert attention in human beings' perceptions, they can sense the divine life essence, the one indwelling consciousness or spirit in every creature, every life-form, recognize it as one with their own essence and so love it as themselves. Until this happens, however, most humans see only the outer forms, unaware of the inner essence, just as they are unaware of their own essence and identify only with their own physical and psychological form.”

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Author:Eckhart Tolle

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