“The key to changing our past, present, and future is to create our piece of the PIE (our Perceptions, Interpretations, & Expectations) on purpose.” PastPurposePiecesKeysPerceptionExpectationsInterpretationPieOur PastPast PresentPast Present And Future Author:Bill Crawford
“It is also certain that when we assent to some piece of reasoning when our perception of it is lacking, then either we go wrong, or, if we do stumble on the truth, it is by accident, so that we cannot be sure that we are not in error.” IfsCertainPiecesPerceptionErrorsAccidentsReasoningLacking Author:Ernest Sosa
“Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then 'process'.” ThinkingWorldProcessChangePiecesPerceptionConcernedSeekingLateral Thinking Author:Edward de Bono
“What choices are you making in your perception of the events around you? We choose how we view our times. There is a pinch of pessimism in our culture now. Counter it with small acts of optimism. Pick up a piece of litter that isn't yours. Show some extra grace on the freeway. Give to your food bank. Smile at a child who is in your way. Help someone you know. Help someone you don't know. The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace. What's your choice?” KnowsWayGivingChildrenHelpingShowsChoicesCultureIndividualViewsQualityGracePiecesEventsProducePerceptionPicksOptimismOptimisticOur TimeExtrasPessimismTenseAccumulationFreewaysSmall ActsFood Banks Book:Success Is the Quality of Your Journey Source: Success Is the Quality of Your Journey
“No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.” ThinkingInspirationalSelfPiecesFitComfortablePerceptionComfortable Life Book:Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
“Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably well, with grace, humor, and fierce grit. Mock doesn't only redefine what realness means to her, but challenges us to rethink our own perceptions of gender and sexuality, feminism and sisterhood, making this book a transcendent piece of American literature.” WellsLooksMeanImportantBookSometimesLiteratureChallengesGracePiecesJourneyFeminismHonestPerceptionGenderSexualityManageVidaFierceGritSisterhoodTranscendentMockAmerican LiteratureRealnessGender And Sexuality Author:Raquel Cepeda
“Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness.” YearsCertainConsciousnessPiecesInfluenceNormalPerceptionStructureJazzWeedAestheticMarijuanaClassical MusicApprehensionCatalystCannabisFunny MarijuanaFunny WeedFunny Drug Author:Allen Ginsberg
“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.” BitsMemoriesSpacePiecesDesignCreationPerceptionDeterminedInternalsAnticipationOur MemoriesActualityBits And PiecesCollages Author:Willard Gaylin