Quotes About Perception

Metaphor is a way of knowing the world, and no less a one than other sorts of ways of gaining knowledge.

Who can even imagine what that would mean, for blue to be—well, more? All

words can help us to see what is graceful or human where lovelines and humanity seem to fail...

You create your own game in your mind based on your beliefs, intents, perception and rules.

They manage our perception and interpretation of environmental information in a way that is consistent with what we believe.

They create our expectations. Keep in mind that an expectation is a belief projected into some future moment. Since we can't expect something we don't know about, we could also say that an expectation is what we know projected into some future moment.

Finally, our beliefs shape how we feel about the results of our actions.

now protecting ourselves from information.

When you genuinely accept the risks, you will be at peace with any outcome. When you're at peace with any outcome, you will experience a carefree, objective state of mind, where you make yourself available to perceive and act upon whatever the market is offering you (from its perspective) at any given "now moment.

If you have to win, if you have to be right, if you can't lose or can't be wrong, you will cause yourself to define and perceive categories of market information as painful.

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The second god lived by mountains that flowed By the blue shiny lit roads Had forgot what others still tried to grasp

When I fiddle around with their amps, it's because it needs to be done. I must be hearing it different to them. But you'd be surprised by how many people tell me that it works. Not that I need telling. I know it works.

extremely difficult for the average person to visualize a space of more than three dimensions, since that is the only spatial geometry with which we have had any personal experience.

True wisdom is the ability to see things as they really are. This is a gift the ring cannot bequeath. What wisdom Frodo has must come from a different source

How did the students respond to being treated like customers? They didn't seem to mind at all. From what one could see, they loved it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein famously said that the limits of one's language were the limits of one's world. By coming up with fresh and arresting words to describe the world accurately, the writer expands the boundaries of her world, and possibly her readers' world, too. Real writing can do what R. P. Blackmur said it could: add to the stock of available reality. There

Browning calls the poet God's spy and that's a complimentary way of putting it. We could say, more neutrally, that writers are almost always spies and have the kinds of lives that spying creates. They are constantly collecting information, making mental notes.

I wondered if they had my name on database now, with an alert next to it: nutter.

There is a] gulf that can exist between different emotional and perceptual worlds—all 'Chinese'—in recent times [post-Deng Xiaoping].

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.

We are what we think, having become what we thought.

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

We reduce, concretize, or substantialize experiences or feelings, which are, in their very nature, fleeting or evanescent. In so doing, we define ourselves by our moods and by our thoughts. We do not just let ourselves be happy or sad, for instance; we must become a happy person or a sad one. This is the chronic tendency of the ignorant or deluded mind, to make "things" out of that which is no thing.