Quotes About Filtering

Cruise director is - I always laugh and say, 'He's the ship's liver,' because almost everything you can think of filters through you at some point.

The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.

Whoever says adults are better at paying attention than children is wrong: we're too busying filtering out the world, focusing on some task or another, paying no attention. Our kids are the ones discovering new contents all day long.

Your mission as a trader is to filter only the very best trade setups, which is what successful traders often do.

Your brain can only process a tiny portion of your environment, It risks being overwhelmed by the volume of information that bombards you every waking moment. Your brain compensates by filtering out the 99.9 percent of your environment that doesn't matter to you.

Tendency to say what comes to mind without necessarily considering the timing or appropriateness of the remark

This idea was carried forward by the British philosopher C.D. Broad who wrote: The function of the brain and the nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and otherwise irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive.

I spend quite a lot of time thinking about how curated our information is. What we watch, what we read, what we buy, often who we talk to, is all shaped and influenced by some kind of a mathematical algorithm.

Think about it this way - if you have five senses, and they're all feeding into one place, kind of like a bottleneck, then now your mind has to make decisions of what is important and what is going to be above the radar and what's going to be below the radar.

Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

Assaulted as we are with so many advertisements, messages, appeals, theories, and obligations, we are in danger of losing our way, if not our sanity. We must choose just those few things that we really value. If we filter out the rest and focus on these, we can regain our perspective, and our happiness.

What is at stake here is the control of public space and the power to depict, to discourage and intimidate, and ultimately to filter what is happening and being expressed at a time when technology makes filtering relatively easy.

When I filter the sunshine in my life, I bask in the light of a transforming and inspiring reality.

Oddly enough, I'm not a particularly judgmental person. I just don't have a lot of filtering when I'm in 'tiger mother' mode. I say what comes into my head.

The environment is the agent that does the shaking of the sieve.

There is so much more content in English that a lot of people have a hard time filtering through the noise.

Does Facebook behave like a tool in my hand, or a firehose designed to spew at me in accordance with other peoples' agendas? Concretely: can I write my own client to present a filtered view of the Facebook stream, or have other people do that for me?

The goal of the e-mail is not so much to attract viable users as to repel the non-viable ones, who greatly outnumber them.

The information we are fed is largely based on the information we choose to consume.

Twitter is a cesspool but I find I can ignore most of the cess most of the time.

A lot of our songs are based in reality but imagined or using fictional characters as a way to write about something. I think inspiration comes from anything and everything, and it's filtered through our brains, and it comes out sounding like our band.

I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining.

others were showing off the jobs they'd got, the boyfriends who'd proposed, the babies on the way, the countless nights on the lash where they'd had the best time of their lives clubbing-partying-festivalling-getting-drunk-high and being happyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappy, with complexions filtered to perfection

spread to the city itself fuel their determined efforts. Gallon after gallon from the hoses attacks the fire, filtering down in torrents from the upper decks to the very bottom of the hull's interior.