Perceive Quotes - Page 30

• Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Photography, Way, Painting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Inspirational, Eye

  Miyamoto Musashi (1982). “The Book of Five Rings”, Bantam

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• What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

  Paracelsus

  Eye, Tree, Stones

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.93, Princeton University Press

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• It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

  Blaise Pascal

  God, Heart, Existentialism

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Humans believe so many lies because we aren’t aware. We ignore the truth or we just don’t see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn’t allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Wall, Lying, Believe

  "‘Four Agreements’ Author Don Miguel Ruiz Reveals How Doubt Can Lead To Happiness" by don Miguel Angel Ruiz, don Jose Ruiz, with Janet Mills, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2013.

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• Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Integrity, Character, Agreement

  "Ellen DeGeneres Sits Down with The Four Agreements Author don Miguel Ruiz". Interview with Ellen DeGeneres, www.oprah.com. October 2001.

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• We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Kindness, Compassion, Skills Training

  "How to Get Real Happiness: An Interview with Sharon Salzberg". Interview with Elisha Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.

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• It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the universe. Wouldn't that be freaky? Whereas the probability is high that there is a vast reality that we have no way to perceive, that's actually bearing down on us now and influencing everything.

  George Saunders

  Reality, Would Be, Answers

  George Saunders (2013). “Tenth of December”, p.20, A&C Black

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• I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes.

  Daniel Tammet

  Numbers, Mind, Shapes

  "This much I know" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2009.

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• It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Ignorance, Humility, People

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• So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.

  Charlize Theron

  Winning, Awards, Office

  FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Nov 29, 2014

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• Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Differences, Unity, Genius

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• [W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Expression, Giving, Excellence

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• Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.

  William James

  Mind, May, Senses

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.196, Courier Corporation

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• Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?

  Dante Alighieri

  Butterfly, Mean, Leaving

  Dante Alighieri, Charles Hall Grandgent (1947). “The Portable Dante: The Divine Comedy, Complete”

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• I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.

  Frank Delaney

  Book, Passion, Salt

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• nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands -excerpt of #35 from "100 Selected Poems

  e. e. cummings

  Country, Rain, Eye

  E. E. Cummings, “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond”

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  When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

  Dave Barry

  Leadership, Business, Crazy

  Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

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• What you perceive as "liberal" is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that i may choose not to do it, with anyone, ever.

  Ana Castillo

  Mean, Independence, May

  Ana Castillo (1994). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”

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• It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Reflection, Desire, Example

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• Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.

  Kathleen Norris

  Daily Tasks, Essentials, Needs

  Kathleen Norris (1998). “The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and "women's Work"”, p.98, Paulist Press

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• There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Hate, People, Catholic

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• When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Fear, Reality

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.69, Xist Publishing

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• These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.

  Yann Martel

  Children, Thinking, People

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• The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have.

  Paulo Freire

  Class, Privilege, Monopoly

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.42, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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