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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.


Ansel Adams


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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.


Samuel Alexander


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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


#beyond #commendation #does #faculties #high

But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.


Laura Bush


#fine #george #good #issues #know

I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.


Ashley Judd


#being #having #i #i think #interests

But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you find it - by which morphological or expressive calibration? Where is your authentic body? You are the only one who can never see yourself except as an image; you never see your eyes unless they are dulled by the gaze they rest upon the mirror or the lens (I am interested in seeing my eyes only when they look at you): even and especially for your own body, you are condemned to the repertoire of its images.


Roland Barthes


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To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.


Lawrence Clark Powell


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So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.


Alain Resnais


#film #formal #i #make #more

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.


Thomas Szasz


#conversation #disciplined #distressed #engaging #fellow

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.


Richard Russo


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