Quotes About Perception

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There were usually not nearly as many sick people inside the hospital as Yossarian saw outside the hospital, and there were generally fewer people inside the hospital who were seriously sick. There was a much lower death rate inside the hospital than outside the hospital, and a much healthier death rate.

Não me confunde coisa nenhuma. Fico simplesmente irritado por julgarem que não passo de um pateta. Pensam que são espertos e todos nós estúpidos.

as pessoas com mentes manifestavam por vezes tendência para se tornar espertas.

Each morning they came around, three brisk and serious men with efficient mouths and inefficient eyes...

Any possibilities that I might be mistaken about her humor were dispelled by her first words.

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him. Catch 22

O fígado representa um vasto e hediondo mistério, para nós. Se alguma vez comeu fígado frito, compreende o que quero dizer. Os estudos mais recentes permitem-nos concluir que ele existe de facto e fazer uma ideia geral da sua acção, quando funciona devidamente. Para além disso, ainda navegamos nas trevas.

Gold was not sure of many things,but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew,he could name at least two of greater ability,better character, and higher intelligence who, by comparison, had failed

If Jefferson seemed predestined to tell people what they wanted to hear, Adams now acknowledged that his own destiny was just the opposite: to tell them what they needed to know.

It is well known, that when one side only of a story is heard, and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it, insensibly.

You are as young as you think you are. You are as strong as you think you are. You are as useful as you think you are. You are as young as your thoughts.

If you imagine, for example, that another person is mean, dishonest, and jealous, notice the emotion you evoke within yourself. Now reverse the situation. Begin to imagine the same person as honest, sincere, loving, and kind; notice the reaction it calls forth in you. Are you not, therefore, master of your attitudes?

As a man thinks, feels, and believes, so is the condition of his mind, body, and circumstances.

The American philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson, said, "Man is what he thinks all day long.

Fear is based on the false beliefs that there are other powers, and that external things and conditions can hurt you.

YOU ARE AS YOUNG AS YOU THINK YOU ARE

Remember, it is the world within, namely, your thoughts, feelings, and imagery that makes your world without.

You are living in a psychological prison of your own making, and you are bound by your beliefs, opinions, training, and environmental influences. Like most people, you are a creature of habit. You are conditioned to react the way you do.

subconscious mind does not engage  in  proving whether your thoughts  are  good or bad, true  or false, but it responds according to the nature of your thoughts or suggestions.

wrong. Do you imagine evil of others? If you do, notice the emotion generated in your deeper self; it is negative and destructive to your health and prosperity.

If you try too hard to hear the telephone ring, you cannot.

ahead of Chicago time, and tells a Chicago friend that it is twelve

All your experiences, events, conditions, and acts are the reactions of your subconscious mind to your thoughts.