Orientation Quote by Hans Magnus Enzensberger Download Open image “Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.” — Hans Magnus Enzensberger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Orientation
“I would define orientation in this way: n. 1. a state of existence where a person is accurately perceiving the environment. 2. an appropriate… — Ronald D. Davis Copy Share Image
“When you have orientational awareness, your perceptions and impressions are based on location and proximity. Orientation may imply hierarchy, position, and prestige, or be… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for ceremonial occasions,… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The true problem with virtual reality is that orientation is no longer possible. We have lost our points of reference to orient ourselves. The… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts. — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It is now a documented principle of psychology that human beings subconsciously move in the direction of their most dominant thought. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies. — Charles Tupper Copy Share Image
You attract the predominant thoughts that you're holding in your awareness. — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is always the psychic and social grounds, brought into play by each medium or technology, that readjust the balance of the hemispheres and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks misconceive its nature and function. As I have tried to suggest, utopia is not mainly about providing detailed blueprints for social reconstruction. Its concern with ends is about making us think about possible worlds. It is about inventing… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share
The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing. — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals:… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created differential rights based on race, gender and, any day now, sexual orientation. The great liberal revolution, centuries in the making, that brought forth equality in law has been overthrown. In its place we see rising a new feudal… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share
Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation—choosing to be… — Ian Gawler Copy Share Image
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be acknowledged, that a secure basis will be attained for tackling interdisciplinary problems, and that the sciences will be mobilized within a higher unity of vocabulary, thought and orientation, in which they will be able to make… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share
The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind the venetian blinds and unshaven, but ruggedly handsome, detectives working themselves with single-minded devotion into the bottle and marital breakdown. The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you've generated some sort of… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share
You shouldn't face discrimination because of your sexual orientation. That should be illegal. — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
The time has come to make the protection of children - all our children - a common cause that can unite us across the… — Olara Otunnu Copy Share Image
If you tell me I can't understand you because of my color or you can't understand me because of your sexual orientation or she… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Liberals claim to love gays when it allows them to vent their spleen at Republicans. But disagree with liberals and their first response is to call you gay. Liberals are gays' biggest champions on issues most gays couldn't care less about, like gay marriage or taxpayer funding of photos of men with bullwhips up their derrieres. But who has done… — Ann Coulter Copy Share
The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no… — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
