Sensory Quotes

• Self-awareness is your awareness of the world, which you experience through the five senses (sound, touch, sight, taste, and smell). Pay attention to your sensory impressions and be aware of those five ways that the world comes to you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Self, Smell, Sight

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• Take note of what's around you and maximise sensory pleasure.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Pleasure, Notes, Senses

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• Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.

  Gil Kane

  Saws, Structure

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• Imagination is nothing more than sensory states. Learn to go beyond an idea by feeling its reality.

  Neville Goddard

  Reality, Ideas, Imagination

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• There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Inspirational, Children, Science

  "V 65: New Challenges for human communications, Volume 4". Book by International Center for the Typographic Arts, Southern Illinois University, 1965.

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• It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

  Annie Dillard

  Real, Small Rooms, World

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• Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Needs, May

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 01, 1996.

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• One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.

  Temple Grandin

  Hurt, School, Silence

  Interview With Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com.

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• Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

  Stephen King

  Stories, Description, Reader

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• The sensory world is the school, without which the human being would never come to the spirit.

  Rudolf Steiner

  School, World, Spirit

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• Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.

  Temple Grandin

  Baseball, Children, School

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• The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

  Samuel Alexander

  Distinguished, Objects

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• I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought.

  Peter Steele

  Running, Trying, Input

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• For sheer sensory enjoyment, few everyday experiences can compete with a good cup of coffee.

  Ernesto Illy

  Coffee, Everyday, Cups

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• I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Google, Brain

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• Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.

  David Abram

  Taken, Perception, Ongoing

  David Abram (2010). “Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology”, p.58, Vintage

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• Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, Soul, Religion

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.40, Princeton University Press

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• Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

  E. O. Wilson

  Brain, World, Maps

  "E.O. Wilson Is on Top of the World". Interview with Jill Neimark, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1998.

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• We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.

  Michael Shermer

  Eye, Thinking, Games

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• I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.

  Billy Corgan

  Memories, Thinking, Atmosphere

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• The human body is amazing," she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.

  Dan Brown

  Body, Input, Said

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• South Dakota... is like the world's first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber.

  Bill Bryson

  World, Firsts, Deprivation

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• We invented our computers in the '80s. We networked them together in the '90s. Now we're giving them eyes, ears and sensory organs. And we're asking them to observe and manipulate the world on our behalf.

  Esther Dyson

  Eye, Giving, Together

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• Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects reason as his standard of judgement, only one alternative standard remains to him: his feelings. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feelings with knowledge

  Nathaniel Branden

  Commitment, Judgement, Feelings

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden (1965). “The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism”

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• Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success, let alone satisfaction.

  Diane Ackerman

  Memories, Creativity, Emotional

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