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“By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception; we learn to grab it and put it someplace we want it to be.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“One thing people often want me to talk about is my public love life. When it comes to my love life, the perception seems as though I am a player. But that’s not true. Love is something I am still learning. It’s just an obstacle that I haven’t yet mastered. I think that’s my biggest hurdle in life.”

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Author:Chris Brown

“Of one thing we can be sure: our own future is inseparable from the larger community that brought us into being and which sustains us in every expression of our human quality of life, in our aesthetic and emotional sensitivities, our intellectual perceptions, our sense of the divine, as well as in our physical nourishment and bodily healing.”

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Book:The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

“What I'm after is the liquidity of things, how one things leads you on to the rest... The works are about concentration, intention, and paths of thought: the flow of totality in our perception, the fragmentation of the river of phenomenon.”

Path One Thing Perception Flow Rivers Intention Concentration Phenomenon Totality Fragmentation Liquidity

Author:Gabriel Orozco

“This beauty ideal is everywhere. You can't escape it - TV, wallpaper, posters, billboards, magazines. They put on these crazy perceptions about what people should look like. It's really shocking the way everybody is striving for this one thing, this ultimate beauty, but what is it?”

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Author:Jurgen Teller

“Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.”

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Author:Martina Navratilova

“Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly.”

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Author:Ted Dekker

“The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.”

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Book:Pocket Aristotle

Source: Pocket Aristotle

“These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know.”

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Author:John Hume

“The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all practical intents and purposes this is purely some kind of lightshow that's being put on in the kind of neurons in our brain. The whole of reality.”

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Author:Alan Moore

“What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.”

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Author:Lucille Clifton

“A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.”

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Author:Neil Postman