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Letter "P" » perception
«Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.»
Author: Martina Navratilova
(Tennis Player)
| Keywords:
disabilities, disability, Just One, needed, perception
«To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
aware, a thousand, badly, friction, good practice, oneself, perception, practice, produce, purer, qualities, shortcoming, Somebody else, speaking, unrest, useful, ways, well aware
«Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.»
«As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.»
«Generally, about all perception, we can say that a sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet ring without the iron or gold»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
impress, iron, perception, receiving, ring, sensible, signet, signets, signet ring, the matter, wax, waxes, waxing
«A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
escape from, finely, longs, objective, perception, Personal life, tempered
«For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
activity, aesthetic, any, art, certain, exist, For any, indispensable, intoxication, perception, physiological, precondition, sort, sorted, sorting, sort of, sort out
«Do what you know and perception is converted into character.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
converted, perception
«Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Civilization,
Mankind
| Keywords:
faculties, gotten, improvisation, invention, perception, so-called, The So, uses
«Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Conscience
| Keywords:
internal, operating, perception, reaction
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