Senses Quotes - Page 21

• Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Calm Mind, Imagination

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• When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

  Barbara Sher

  Life, Eye, Rewards

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.139, Dell

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• The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes.

  Costa Georgiadis

  Education, Learning, Eye

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• Out in the field I try not to hold expectations. I try to achieve an openness. The senses heighten so that I am totally immersed in what's happening at the moment. I want to be receptive to an image coming together.

  Keith Lazelle

  Photography, Expectations, Trying

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• Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.

  Michael Servetus

  Perception, Found, Intellect

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• What is the character trying to say? Why? Be as specific as you can, using sense images that evoke something about the character. Try using the character's senses, even if the character is you.

  Pat Pattison

  Writing, Character, Trying

  Pat Pattison (2010). “Writing Better Lyrics”, p.17, Writer's Digest Books

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• YOU CAN'T TELL UNLESS YOU SHOW FIRST. ... Showing makes the telling more powerful because your senses and your mind are both engaged.

  Pat Pattison

  Powerful, Writing, Mind

  Pat Pattison (2010). “Writing Better Lyrics”, p.20, Writer's Digest Books

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• I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

  Socrates

  Eye, Heroic Deeds, Soul

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• If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up living a second-rate version of someone's life rather than a worldclass version of your own

  Donald O. Clifton

  Wind, Inner Strength, Denial

  Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001). “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• Let us treasure up in our soul some of those things which are permanent..., not of those which will forsake us and be destroyed, and which only tickle our senses for a little while.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Greed, Soul, Treasure

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• How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

  Norman Douglas

  Reality, Mind, Sometimes

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• Je me sens vraiment entre amis. (I feel that I am truly among friends.)

  John F. Kennedy

  Presidential, Feels

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• We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.

  Mario Cuomo

  Past, Reality, Feet

  1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA

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• It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call something there, more deep and more general than any of the special and particular senses by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.

  William James

  Reality, Psychology, Feelings

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• A man in Mali told me that there are seven senses. Everyone has five, some can use their sixth. But not everyone has the seventh. It is the power to heal with music, calm with color, to soothe the sick soul with harmony. He told me that I have this gift, and I know what I have to do with it.

  Marie Daulne

  Music, Men, Color

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• Overall I think the show went well, kudos to Miss Jeanie It was well rounded. From artwork to singing, to spoken word to short films, I think it definitely stimulated the audience's senses.

  Angie Brown

  Thinking, Missing, Singing

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• We all take leave of our senses, from time to time. . . . .

  Bryan A. Garner

  Mistake

  Bryan A. Garner (2011). “Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage”, p.425, Oxford University Press, USA

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• But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Peace, Fear, Moving

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• The sight of the eye, the hearing of the ear, the touch of the hand may each and all be deceived, but the instructions of the spirit are in all things correct. The combined senses may misguide or fail, but he who happily secures the companionship of the Holy Spirit, walks in the ways of life and neither fears, becomes weary nor faints by the wayside.

  Moses Thatcher

  Fear, Failure, Eye

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• Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels the will to endurance. It is not merely a physical development then. Sport, rightly understood, is an occupation of the whole man, and while perfecting the body as an instrument of the mind, it also makes the mind itself a more refined instrument for the search and communication of truth and helps man to achieve that end to which all others must be subservient, the service and praise of his Creator.

  Pope Pius XII

  Sports, Communication, Character

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• Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.

  Frederick Sanger

  Art, Students, Improvement

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• I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie about what had happened. To my addled brain, this was plausible. Then I came to my senses and woke Eric up and told him that either he had to retreat or I'd throw him off. We went down and I never climbed again for a quarter of a century.

  Dave Cook

  Lying, Climbing, Brain

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• The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.

  Henri Matisse

  Spring, Artist, Lightning

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• What does this contradictory pattern mean?one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their senses. They disregard the quality of immediate experience, and base their motivation instead on the strongly rooted cultural stereotype of what work is supposed to be like. They think of it as an imposition, a constraint, an infringement of their freedom, and therefore something to be avoided as much as possible.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Motivation, Mean, Thinking

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Awareness, Embrace

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