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“The purpose of formulating [a] conflict as a game is not that of resolving the conflict by 'solving the game.' It is that of displaying the structure of the conflict and thereby exposing features of it that may be concealed by rhetoric. In particular, appreciation of the peculiar structure of some of the so-called mixed - motive conflicts represented nonzero-sum games may change the conflicting parties' perception of their situation.”

May Purpose Games Party Situation Particular Conflict Perception Structure Appreciation Features Motive Peculiar Rhetoric Concealed Exposing

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“The way of Zen is to become independent and strong. Don't rely on others for perceptions of life and truth. Do it individually. Go to a teacher of Zen to learn how to do that, not to get answers for individual life situations.”

Way Individual Strong Answers Situation Teacher Masters Perception Independent Rely Individual Life Zen Master Perception Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The problem is not our situation but our perception of our situation”

Problem Situation Perception

Author:Graham Cooke

“It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event takes place, when at the front an army is in danger, or defeated, or victorious, the rather obscure news which the cultivated man does not quite understand, excite in the masses an emotion which surprises him and in which, once the experts have informed him of the actual military situation, he recognizes the populace's perception of that "aura" surrounding great events and visible for hundreds of kilometers.”

“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

“The original meaning of the word tact referred to the sense of touch (as in 'tactile'), and came to mean skill in dealing with persons or sensitive situations. Tact is defined as: 'intuitive perception, especially a quick and fine perception of what is fit and proper and right.' It alludes to one's ability to conduct delicate negotiations and personal matters in a way that recognizes mutual rights, and yet leads to a harmonious solution.”

“[The cause of inaction in war] ... is the imperfection of human perception and judgment which is more pronounced in war than anywhere else. We hardly know accurately our own situation at any particular moment while the enemy's, which is concealed from us, must be deduced from very little evidence.”

Knows Humans Littles War Moments Causes Situation Enemy Particular Judgment Perception Evidence Imperfection Concealed Inaction

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“Gradually I saw that it was less interesting for me, as an artist, to frame the world wholly according to my own perceptions. I wanted instead to create situations in which I allowed others' perceptions to surface with my own.”

World Wanted Artist My Own Interesting Situation Saws Perception Surface

Book:Collaborative works with children 1969-1999

Source: Collaborative works with children 1969-1999

“Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.”

Looks Feelings Grows Levels Situation Emotional Perception Emotional Intelligence Present Situation

Author:Deepak Chopra

“We're seeing it the same way, we're hearing the same way, we have the same conception of the situation. And so, for all purposes, we are operating with a very similar perception.”

Way Purpose Situation Seeing Perception Hearing Conception

Author:Antonio Damasio

“One of the most important analytic tools when assessing an investment is an intellectually advantaged disparate view. This includes knowing more and perceiving the situation better than others do. It is also critical to have a keen understanding of what the market expectations for any investment truly are. Thus, the process by which a disparate perception, when correct, becomes consensus should lead to meaningful profit. Understanding market expectation is at least as important as, and often different from fundamental knowledge.”

“In the case of Philando Castile, we believe he was complying, it might have been precipitated by a police officer telling him to open the glove compartment.We have other examples in which people have met the same fate when they appear to be complying. Yet the way that the system tends to operate and the way the police when you talk to them view that situation is they are looking for things that trigger their perception of threat and that`s a highly subjective judgment.”

People Way Believe Has Beens Might Views Situation Cases Fate Example Mets Judgment Perception Police Threat Officers Might Have Been Subjective Triggers Gloves Police Officer Complying

Author:Chris Hayes

“I think we need to reckon in a very serious way with the emotional content of news and the way that people perceive facts and their perception of their situation and to me I think the tabloid is like fundamentally an emotional form of journalism and that kind of emotional valence is what distinguishes it from the broad sheet.”

People Thinking Kind Situation Emotional Serious Perception Journalism Perceive

Author:Lydia Polgreen

“It's a very weird cultural perception that if you're fat you're dumb, that you're lazy or a loser. Clearly, those are the preconditions for fatness. You're a failure, because only a lazy person, only a dumb person, would allow themselves to get into this situation. It's appalling that this is the mindset. People generally treat fat people like we don't know anything about anything. It's incredibly demeaning. And incredibly frustrating.”

People Situation Perception Mindset Dumb Lazy Loser Frustrating Demeaning

Author:Roxane Gay

“Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions. Most emotions are responses to perception - what you think is true about a given situation. If your perception is false, then your emotional response to it will be false too. So check your perceptions, and beyond that check the truthfulness of your paradigms - what you believe. Just because you believe something firmly doesn't make it true. Be willing to reexamine what you believe.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Given Emotion Situation Emotional Willing Perception Response Checks Paradigm Truthfulness Emotional Response

Author:William P. Young

“I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situations that occur. And if you just say ‘ok, here I am, I’m going to experience the pain,’ you don’t suffer. The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.”

“But on the other hand, if you come under circumstances where each person is entitled to a pro-rata share of the pot, to take an extreme example, or even to a low level of the pie, than the effect of that situation is that free immigration, would mean a reduction of everybody to the same, uniform level. Of course, I'm exaggerating, it wouldn't go quite that far, but it would go in that direction. And it is that perception, that leads people to adopt what at first seems like inconsistent values.”

“Stick with your own perception of yourself-living in your own world-and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or particular situations, control your performance.”

People World Inspirational Reality Situation Particular Achievement Perception Performances Sticks

Book:Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More

Source: Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More

“Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—without the pestilence of panic or fear.”

Action Courses Situation Discipline Perception Advantage Panic Pestilence

Book:The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

Source: The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

“Travelers perceptions do not always reflect the reality of a situation, and ignorance is costing the industry billions.”

Reality Situation Ignorance Industry Perception Billions Traveler

Author:Paul Dowling

“I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. Perhaps this is why in 1776, Thomas Paine used these words as a title for the most famous pamphlet ever written.”

Thinking Facts Used Sound Simple Common Situation Written Judgment Perception Common Sense Titles Prudent Paine

Author:Jack White

“The education situation which most effectively promotes significant learning is one in which (1) threat to the self of the learner is reduced to a minimum and (2) differential perception of the field of experience is facilitated”

Self Situation Fields Perception Threat Feminist Significant Minimum Learners

Author:Carl Rogers

“There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.”

Firsts Action Form Certain Situation Psychology Possibility Type Perception Constitution Filled Endless Typical Repetition Psychics Representing Archetype Engraved Situations In Life

Author:Carl Jung

“The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.”

Mind Kind Situation Perception Theater Infinite Philosopher Variety Posture

Book:A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Source: A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion