“ The superior person is perceptive and not biased. The lesser person is biased and not perceptive. ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? ”
- Igor Stravinsky- Copy
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“ Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
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“ There's nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell. ”
- Stephen Colbert- Copy
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“ There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it. ”
- Dennis Miller- Copy
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“ I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who? ”
- Jay London- Copy
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“ I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego. ”
- Kevin Spacey- Copy
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“ I try not to do scenes a certain way, because then I become conscious of it, and it dosen't come off as realistic. I try to make it so that I'm not really aware of what I'm doing. ”
- Kirsten Dunst- Copy
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“ To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. ”
- George Boole- Copy
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“ It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny', and it is my contention that in actuality it is these musicians who are producing that which in future years perceptive critics will deem 'corny'. ”
- Don Ellis- Copy
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“ It is… axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey from the subject before me? ”
- Ansel Adams- Copy
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