Quotes About Perception

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing.

All places are the same unless your mind changes. There's no magic place to get your mind right. If you feel like shit, everything you see looks like shit.

You can't always understand something just because you did it.

The qualities of the images, sounds, and feelings are known as submodalities.

What this means is that our bodies are not disconnected from our brains. They are an extended part of the brain. The important question to ask people when they say "I feel frustrated," is, "Where? Where does the feeling start? Where do you feel it first in your body? Where does it move to?" Feelings can't stay still. They are always moving somewhere, in some direction.

Most problems we face in life, as I have said already, happen in our minds. Furthermore, problems generally exist in our concept of the past and the future. The past and the future don't exist except in our minds.

Najbardziej ogranicza nas wcale nie to, czego chcemy i czego nie mo?emy zrobi?. Ogranicza nas to, czego nigdy w ogóle nie braliÅ›my pod uwagÄ™".

I elicit the submodalities of that just as we did in the inventory part of this book earlier. Stop now and think about something you no longer want to believe. Just like Myra, I want you to go through your list and find out first, where is the voice? Where is the picture?

When you find the difference, I want you to take the thing you no longer wish to believe and push it all the way off into the distance, then move it over and pop it up on the other side so that when you look at it you know it's a lie and you're angry about it.

People think they are afraid of these things, but they are not. It's not the object. It's not the height that makes you afraid, it's your brain. We know this because other people can be at the same height and they don't get afraid. The question becomes: what is the person who feels fear doing inside his head and, even more important, what is the person who feels calm or confident in those situations doing inside his head?

Once they have a choice, people always make the best choice. The trouble is that people don't think they have one.

Reframing is also the pivotal element in the creative process: it is the ability to put a commonplace event in a new frame that is useful or enjoyable.

We have been trained to believe that change isn't easy and requires a lot of effort and a lot of time. I've always found this to be simply not true.

Nothing wears off, because as long as you think differently, you will feel differently.

Look at the last image and then run it backward to the beginning so that people walk backward, so that the sounds are like playing a tape recorder backwards. In fact, if you can, spin your feelings in the reverse direction.

Next, go back to the first bad image. Not the life-size one but the little one and push it off into the distance and suddenly pull up the new picture in its place and then make it life-size. Look at how you want to be, and you end up replacing your fears with your desires.

When people start asking good questions, they make good pictures inside their heads. If you make good pictures, you will get good feelings. Then life becomes something that you feel more enthusiasm for.

Moreover, it unmasks this dominant construction of the world as an ideology of the powerful which serves to maintain their power. In its place, Revelation offers a different way of perceiving the world which leads people to resist and to challenge the effects of the dominant ideology.

This means that "meeting the current toward elimination of names is the counter current of late development, which . . . gave to simplified matter the verisimilitude of proper names.

and the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner and deeper will it cut thy fingers, if thou take not heed (647).

Cassius Gallio had been right, but being right was overrated. Being smart was safer.

Of course, that made the papers, too. Well, what of it? ... He didn't say the guy's name! ... Gaghhd! Come on! What had the guy ever done—that hadn't been handed to him? ... Dole never could figure what they saw in George Bush.