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“I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their moment, so that I'm not projecting so much, so that my perception of the song doesn't interfere with what its real body is. Sometimes it's like telling a story that I heard in passing, and I don't want it to become completely mine.”

Want Kind Ideas Real Sometimes Moments Stories Body Song Heard Mines Perception Built Structure Passing Passings Fragile Interfere Improvisation

Author:Ryan Adams

“Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.”

Has Beens Art Reality Changed Mines Perception Art Is Visiting

Author:Fred Tomaselli

“When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?”

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Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“There is an enormous thrust in our time to have a simple answer. And that simple answer is that all depends on Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve. And Alan, who is an old acquaintance of mine, is a marvelous performer in the impression he gives of enormously great perception.”

Giving Simple Answers Mines Depends Perception Enormous Impression Our Time Performers Reserves Marvelous Acquaintance Thrust Federal Reserve

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“If we look at the Gulf War, the same is also true. Indeed, my work on the logistics of perception and the Gulf War was so accurate that I was even asked to discuss it with high-ranking French military officers. They asked me: 'how is it that you wrote that book in 1984 and now it's happening for real?' My answer was: 'the problem is not mine but yours: you have not been doing your job properly!'”

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Author:Paul Virilio

“What he has in addition is pure empathy and projection,” Dr. Bloom said. “He can assume your point of view, or mine – and maybe some other points of view that scare and sicken him. It’s an uncomfortable gift, Jack. Perception’s a tool that’s pointed on both ends.”

Said Ends Views Mines Pure Perception Empathy Tools Assuming Point Of View Uncomfortable Scare Drs Projection

Book:Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

“Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings, perceptions, thoughts, and consciousness all interconnected. Investigating in this way, we come to realize that there is no me or mine in any one part, just as a sound does not belong to any one part of the lute.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“I moved down the street like a cloud of awareness following a body that seemed simultaneously familiar and foreign. There was an incomprehensible attachment to that body, although it no longer felt like "mine". It continued to send out signals of its sensory perception, yet how or where those signals wwere being received was beyond comprehension.”

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Author:Suzanne Segal