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• The way you talk about yourself and your life-your story-has a great deal to do with what shows up in your day-to-day experience. Your thoughts create filters through which you view your life. If you think of yourself as a Victim, you filter all that happens to you through the lens of DDT, and you find plenty of evidence to support that viewpoint. That's why the orientation you adopt is so important: it exerts a powerful influence on your life direction.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Powerful, Thinking, Views

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• In my experience, you run into trouble when you ask a group of beer-drinking men to perform any task more complex than remembering not to light the filter ends of cigarettes.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Running, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.86, Ballantine Books

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• [Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous part of man's potential experience without his even knowing it. We're shut off from our own world.

  Tom Wolfe

  Men, Knowing, Perception

  Tom Wolfe (1999). “The electric kool-aid acid test”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.

  Kobe Bryant

  Thinking, Problem, Hell

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• I have no limits, no filter, no class, no poise. No decorum. Just fun.

  Kathy Griffin

  Fun, Class, Limits

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• I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.

  Amy Grant

  Writing, Color, People

  "Singer-songwriter Amy Grant". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 17, 2013.

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• I don't spend a lot of time online. My mother's really good at picking out if she sees a really great review, and she'll forward it to me. She's like my little Internet filter. It's always nice to see something going up; if I want to find something on Nathan Fillion, I do know where to look, but I've got a nice little delivery system in my mom.

  Nathan Fillion

  Mom, Mother, Nice

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. March 9, 2009.

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• You two have to promise to be careful!" Sinead handed Amy a small plastic bag. "I made you a going-away present–a high-powered miniature smoke bomb. Could come in handy against the Vespers. It works with knockout gas, so I tossed in a couple of breathing filters." "That's the Cahill equivalent of a Hallmark moment," Dan observed. "A smoke bomb. When you care enough to send the very best–explosives." "I'm not a flowers-and-candy kind of girl," Sinead informed him.

  Gordon Korman

  Girl, Couple, Flower

  Gordon Korman, Scholastic Multi-Platform, (2011). “The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 1: The Medusa Plot”, p.48, Scholastic Inc.

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• Brands are facing a new competitive landscape in which self-definition, core values and purpose will increasingly define their ability to reach customers that only allow what is meaningful in their lives to pass through their filter.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Meaningful, Self, Purpose

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• Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need people. It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without ever touching lips.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Doors, People

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)”, p.84, Random House

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• It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.

  Joshua Foer

  Writing, Thinking, Essence

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.36, Penguin

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• Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.

  James C. Collins

  Ideas, People, Personality

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• I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp on an envelope straight. And I'm always dialling the wrong number. But I have come up with a few original cocktails that people seem to like.

  Haruki Murakami

  Simple, Wrong Number, Ideas

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “South Of The Border, West Of The Sun”, p.83, Random House

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• You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.

  Walt Whitman

  Mean, Who I Am, Blood

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.83, NYU Press

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• Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.

  Jeff Bridges

  Real, Character, Might Use

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• ...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind.... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Wind, Fire, Long

  Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.84, Vintage

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• My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Dad, Eye, Scripts

  Interview with Dave Calhoun, www.timeout.com.

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• I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

  Keanu Reeves

  Moving, Light, Giving

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• My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Father, Dark, Men

  "How to Get Through What You’re Going Through: Who’s Your Daddy?" by yanla Vanzant, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2010.

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• Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

  Walt Whitman

  Book, Eye, Night

  "Song of Myself " l. 33 (written 1855)

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• You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in the end all you can achieve are memories, hazy, intangible, dreamlike memories which are impossible to articulate. When you try to relate them, there are only sentences, the dregs left from the filter of linguistic structures.

  Gao Xingjian

  Memories, Trying, Needs

  Gao Xingjian (2000). “Soul Mountain”

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• Yes and I appreciate it. But this is going to be difficult enough without running my words through a filter of illiteracy.

  Kevin Hearne

  Running, Appreciate, Enough

  Kevin Hearne (2011). “Hounded (with two bonus short stories): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book One”, p.301, Del Rey

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• In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.

  Annie Lennox

  Fighting, Artist, Media

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• Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.

  Douglas Adams

  Children, Maturity, Order

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Powerful, Years, Mouths

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