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“You cannot see the Milky Way in New York City any more ... We risk the loss of our sensual perception. And if you lose those, naturally, you try to compensate by other stimulations, by very loud noises, or by bright lights or drugs.”

Ifs Way Trying Light Loses Loss Cities Risk New York Drug Perception Noise Sensual Loud New York City Stimulation Milky Way Bright Lights Loud Noises

Author:Rene Dubos

“I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical.”

Thinking Looks Grows Loses Loss Perception Concerned Diabolical Ageism

Author:Erin O'Connor

“Somewhere after you have few successful films, there is a fear of losing what you have got. It is very easy in the beginning, as you are a risk taker, have nothing to lose, and there is no perception about you.”

Film Easy Loses Successful Risk Perception Losing Nothing To Lose

Author:Emraan Hashmi

“You are thinking about where your brain is at any time. It's very tricky but it's why women are very well suited to rule the world in the future, because of the multi-tasking they do and their ability to be moving in 15 directions at once. It's the women who behave like men, who focus in that singular way with the blinkers on, who have problems. You get a lot more done that way maybe, but you also lose the perception of who's behind you, what's going on, the 360 degrees of it, the whole picture of life that we do have as women.”

Thinking Men World Way Wells Done Whole Problem Moving Loses Ability Behinds Brain Focus Degrees Perception Behave Tricky Behind You Moving In Whole Picture Multi Tasking Blinkers

Author:Meryl Streep

“The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin”

Heart Persons Self Life Is Loses Sin Focus Rights Perception Fundamentals Denial Sovereignty Elevation Brazen Sovereignty Of God

Author:D. A. Carson

“There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses.”

Winning Loses Perception Debate Factors Voters

Author:Mark McKinnon

“Yeah, I think it's like any God-given gift. You writers have the gift of perception. If you don't use it, you're going to lose it. And it's the same thing with you [Lorraine], it's God-given.”

Ifs Thinking Use Given Loses Perception Yeah Lorraine

Author:Vera Farmiga

“I can feel how an audience is reacting when I'm on a stage, but when you are on stage, your perception is distorted. That's something you just have to know. It's like pilots that fly at high Gs and they lose, sometimes, consciousness and hand/eye coordination and they just have to know that that's going to happen. They have to be trained to not try to do too much while they are doing that. So when you are on stage, you have to be aware that you are wrong about how it feels a lot of times.”

Knows Feels Trying I Can Sometimes Hands Happens Eye Loses Consciousness Audience Too Much Stage Perception Pilots Reacting Coordination

Author:Louis C. K.

“The perception that Donald Trump has softened on immigration or is about to soften on immigration has some on the right concerned that he could lose support among his most loyal base of supporters, though he`d been drawn to his hard-line positions on immigration early in the campaign.”

Hard Loses Lines Support Position Trump Perception Concerned Campaigns Immigration Loyal Supporter

Author:Steve Kornacki

“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

“But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.”

Source: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

“But what we're really trapped by is perceptions. You think you need to lose weight for someone to love you. I think if I gain weight, no one will love me. What we really need is to just stop thinking of ourselves as bodies and start thinking of ourselves as people.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Body Loses Love You Perception Gains Weight Trapped Lose Weight

Book:Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed

“In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true. This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow. It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one's deepest integrity.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Mean Doe Real Feelings Desire Order Choices Given Goal Interest Loses Integrity Sorrow Perception Stronger Feel Good Bliss Bad Things Yearning Feel Better

Author:Adyashanti

“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

“To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to empathise and to see the non-human sphere in ethical terms, but also get a false sense of our own character and location that includes an illusory sense of autonomy. The failure to see the non-human domain in the richer terms appropriate to ethics licences supposedly ‘purely instrumental’ relationships that distort our perceptions and enframings, impoverish our relations and make us insensitive to dependencies and interconnections”

Source: Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason