Perception Quote by John Steinbeck Download Open image ““Eventlessness has no post to drape duration on.”” — John Steinbeck ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Perception Philosophical Time
Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy—that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“All events are but the consummation of preceding causes, clearly seen but not distinctly apprehended.” — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“Too often, an event’s importance is not recognized until it is too late for proper recording.” — Benoît B. Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“For it is not true that an uneventful time in the past is remembered as fast. On the contrary, it takes the time-stones of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I started to apply the “one-minute rule”; I didn’t postpone any task that could be done in less than one minute.” — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“... That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I’d think there are degrees of greatness,” Adam said. “I don’t think so,” said Samuel. “That would be like saying there is a little… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“You come back a changed man. Samuel, you don’t change him. He changes you. I can see the look of him in your face.”… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
“According to this model, human beings are, at least in one aspect, sensation-receiving machines; and although our receptory apparatus is competent to select and… — Cruce Stark Copy Share Image
There's no reason for men to be better at maths than women - it's just about our perception. — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
When you hang the 'bipartisan' tag on something, the perception is that differences have been worked out, and there's a broad agreement that that's… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely,… — J. Willard Gibbs Copy Share Image
“No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
If people in Indonesia look 'different', they are afraid. Racist insults fly if someone does not look like part of the majority. Indonesia is… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and… — Raymond Cattell Copy Share Image
Gasoline inventories are tighter than they were a few weeks ago. It's all about perception, because inventories are well above where they have been… — Kyle Cooper Copy Share Image