Filters Quotes

• I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• What you see is filtered through your beliefs. You rarely see "reality." You see your version of it.

  Joe Vitale

  Inspirational, Reality, Belief

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• Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

  Arianna Huffington

  Wisdom, Media, Mouths

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• Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

  Gautama Buddha

  Powerful, Meditation, Mind

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• The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

  Byron Katie

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Truth

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• We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Lenses, Inward, Strongest

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• Try to be a filter, not a sponge.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Trying, Sponges

  Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Mind delineates experience, and through the filter of mind, experience becomes something else; it becomes knowledge in tantra.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Hinduism, Tantra

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• White is too brilliant to be seen, so yellow is its filter, its costume, revealing that pure light has not only brightness but emotional resonance and depth.

  Richard Grossinger

  Emotional, Light, Yellow

  Richard Grossinger (2011). “The Bardo of Waking Life”, p.87, North Atlantic Books

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• I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.

  Al Yankovic

  Use, I've Learned, Spam

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Your network is your filter.

  Don Tapscott

  Marketing

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• The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Past, Self, Prisms

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• I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want, and do not want, to be true.

  Travis Walton

  Reality, People, Perception

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• We're not in a world of information overload, we're in a world of filter failure.

  Michael Lazerow

  World, Information, Overload

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• Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.

  Dean Koontz

  Lying, Eye, Simple

  Dean Koontz (2009). “Relentless: A Novel”, p.145, Bantam

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• Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

  Patrick Ness

  Life, Men, Chaos

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• We can only see what our brain’s filter allows through.

  Eben Alexander

  Brain

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Art, Past, Bores You

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.157, New Directions Publishing

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• With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art.

  Conrad Hall

  Art, Eye, Light

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• The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.

  Elliott Smith

  Fun, Band

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• I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.

  John Updike

  Art, Book, Home

  John Updike's tstimony given before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor in Boston, Massachusetts, January 30, 1978.

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• Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

  Victor Hugo

  Writing, Play, Tyrants

  "Les misérables".

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• Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.

  Leonard Cohen

  Nature, Rain, Longing

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Book of Mercy”, p.30, McClelland & Stewart

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• Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.

  Alexander Wang

  Design, Understanding, Important

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• VaynerMedia filters the world how humans interact. This is how people are going to make buying decisions.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  People, Decision, World

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