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“I have always wanted to play different kinds of stuff, but it's hard, first to find good material, and then to change people's perception of you so they'll let you do it. I mean, I would really like to play a poet, but once they get this notion of you as a street guy, it's hard to change that.”

People Firsts Kind Mean Different Hard Play Wanted Guy Stuff Streets Poet Materials Perception Notion Different Kinds

Author:Matt Dillon

“All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making us reassess our thoughts and feelings about how we relate to other people. There are always people who fear that and want to suppress that.”

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Author:John Boorman

“We can conceive a thinking being to have either many or few perceptions. Suppose the mind to be reduced even below the life of anoyster. Suppose it to have only one perception, as of thirst or hunger. Consider it in that situation. Do you conceive any thing but merely that perception? Have you any notion of self or substance? If not, the addition of other perceptions can never give you that notion.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Mind Self Situation Perception Notion Hunger Substance Thirst Oysters

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature: Illustrated

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Illustrated

“Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings of our sensory receptors in the light of previous triggering of our sensory receptors.”

Helping Light Perception Notion Sensory

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation.”

Important Ideas Suffering Practice Meditation Perception Notion Buddhist Buddhist Meditation

Book:Beyond the Self: Teachings on the Middle Way

Source: Beyond the Self: Teachings on the Middle Way

“The way we see the world is not actually the world in itself. What we see is our idea of it. The truth is, we have no notion of what the world is other than through the veils of our perception.”

World Way Ideas Truth Is Perception Notion Veils

Author:Emma Restall Orr

“I found out that changing the perception of myself and the NFL, and reestablishing the notion of being a gentleman was important to me.”

Important Found Perception Notion Gentleman Nfl

Author:Dhani Jones

“The expectations of theory colour perception to such a degree that new notions seldom arise from facts collected under the influence of old pictures of the world. New pictures cast their influence before facts can be seen in a different perspective.”

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Author:Niles Eldredge

“a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in causality - the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future, when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only by opening the doors of perception and experiencing it... in this moment... this supreme moment... this Kairos.”

Source: The electric kool-aid acid test

“Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.”

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Author:Mary Browne

“If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out — since our self-image is untenable — their false notions of us… We play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the urgency of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us.”

Ifs Littles Made Self Play Hands Next Roles Demand Despair Perception Weakness Resources Blind Meetings Notion Defeat Determined Despise Doomed Urgency

Author:Joan Didion

“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large-This is the experience of inestimable value to everyone.”

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Book:Complete Essays: 1939-1956

Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956