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“Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception.”

May Different Reality Remember Doubt Risk Groups Shapes Perception Rewards Perceive Internals Incentives Marketplace Risk And Reward

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries.”

People Stills Courses Asks My Own Advice Perception Standards Library Internals Python

Author:Guido van Rossum

“Promenade was totally driven by the context. The internal relationships of measurement and placement related to the central axis of the site. The placement of the rectangular plates followed a strict logic in that the plates tilted away and towards the center line in an asymmetrical counterpoint. However, the perception of the sculpture contradicts the logic of its relation to the site. As you walk inbetween the plates you see fragments, you see the work in part, you cannot grasp the whole.”

Whole Lines Walks Perception Logic Relation Driven Related Internals Plates Site Strict Sculpture Fragments Measurement Axes Placement Promenade

Author:Richard Serra

“One has a more practical survival level, that's the mind function. The heart function obviously has an internal level that has to do with the quality of developing perceptions, feelings, the self. And the spirit level has to do with the pondering part of our lives.”

Mind Heart Self Feelings Spirit Levels Quality Our Lives Perception Survival Function Practicals Developing Internals Pondering

Author:Caroline Myss

“The brain internally simulates what will happen if you were to perform some action under specific conditions. Internal models not only play a role in motor acts (such as catching or dodging) but also underlie conscious perception.”

Ifs Play Happens Action Brain Roles Conditions Perception Models Conscious Internals Catching Motor Simulate

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.”

Made Together Memories Perception Internals Maps Compass Sixth Sense Spatial Sense Of Place

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.”

Wish Particular Perception Conscience Rejection Internals

Book:Totem and Taboo

Source: Totem and Taboo

“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.”

“Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events.”

Source: Ansel Adams: An Autobiography

“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 has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or from Sentiment; whether we attain the knowledge of them by a chain of argument and induction, or by an immediate feeling and finer internal sense; whether, like all sound judgement of truth and falsehood, they should be the same to every rational intelligent being; or whether, like the perception of beauty and deformity, they be founded entirely on the particular fabric and constitution of the human species.”

“We occupy a space of our own creation-a collage compounded by bits and pieces of actuality arranged into a design determined by our internal perceptions, our hopes, our fears, our memories, and our anticipations.”

Bits Memories Space Pieces Design Creation Perception Determined Internals Anticipation Our Memories Actuality Bits And Pieces Collages

Author:Willard Gaylin

“Everything begins as an internal reality and then is externalized through perception.”

Reality Success Perception Internals

Author:Christopher Langan