“You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.” ThinkingMemoriesTastePerceptionBe GoodSensesMemorableMealsLinkedOften IsMost Memorable Author:Heston Blumenthal
“The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.” BeautifulBornNiceTastePerceptionHighestAppreciationCombinationFacultyAdmirationDeservingAdmiringKnowledge And Wisdom Book:OUR VILLAGE Source: OUR VILLAGE
“For the perception of the beautiful we have the term "taste"--a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and transferred to that which is active in the mind.” MindBodyBeautifulTermTakenTastePerceptionMetaphorActivePassive Author:Thomas Reid
“It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature; which recognizes a noble thought, as a virtuous mind welcomes a pure sentiment by a involuntary glow of satisfaction. But while the principle of perception is inherent in the soul, it requires a certain amount of knowledge to draw out and direct it.” MindArtSoulBeautifulCertainLiteratureEnjoyPrinciplesAmountTastePurePerceptionDrawsDirectSatisfactionNobleFacultySentimentsVirtuousInherentSublimeInvoluntaryPicturesque Author:Robert Aris Willmott
“Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.” GivingShouldBelieveKindUseFormSeeingFineCircumstancesTastePerceptionFavorsDeceptionOpponentsPolitenessMake BelieveTact Author:Grenville Kleiser
“A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste, when it lifts him above mere appetite for wildness, ruggedness, and the feeling of mass and precipitous elevation, into a perception and love of the refined grandeur, the chaste sublimity, the airy majesty overlaid with tender and polished bloom, in which the landscape splendor of a noble mountain lies.” MindFeelingsLyingTasteMountainBenefitsPerceptionMassResourcesAnd LoveMereNobleLandscapeLiftsAppetiteTravelerMajestyGrandeurSuppliesRefinedSplendorPolishedElevationWildnessChasteAiryHampshireNew HampshireSublimity Book:The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry Source: The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry
“I am an American man, and in America, we still think of figure skaters as little girls in pretty, sparkly dresses - I worked very hard to change the perception and image of figure skating, and I think I've done a great job on my end, but in figure skating, taste needs to evolve.” ThinkingMenNeedsLittlesStillsEndsHardDoneJobsAmericaGirlFiguresTastePerceptionDressesEvolveSkatingGreat JobFigure SkatingSkater Author:Johnny Weir