Quotes with pre-perception

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ronald Reagan Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Albert Einstein A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Lionel Trilling A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Barry Unsworth All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Chogyam Trungpa Any perception can connect us to reality properly and fully. What we see doesn't have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.
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  • Billy Joel Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Billy Joel Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Back in the NBA's pre-mask era, ballers with busted noses or orbital bones had two unappealing options: Sit out and heal, or strap on a Michael Myers-looking opaque face shield closely related to that worn by hockey goalies.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Alan Moore Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.
    Alan Moore
    English writer (1953 - )
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  • Alexander Pope But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • C. Wright Mills Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Sigmund Freud Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Martina Navratilova Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.
    Martina Navratilova
    American Tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Simon Gray Extra-marital sex is as overrated as pre-marital sex. And marital sex, come to think of it.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Raymond Chandler Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • A. E. Housman Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
    The Name and Nature of Poetry
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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