Filters quotes
108 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"We do not experience things as they really are! We experience things only through a filter and that filter determines what information will enter our awareness and what will be rejected. If we change the filter (our belief system), then we automatically experience the world in a completely different way."
"Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left."
"If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them."
"Opportunity cost is a huge filter in life. If you've got two suitors who are really eager to have you and one is way the hell better than the other, you do not have to spend much time with the other. And that's the way we filter out buying opportunities."
"One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone."
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"A true friend will go with the instagram filter that flatters you."
"If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor."
"If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order."
"The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun."
"Without perceiving things through the old filter of past conditioning and conceptualization, one can sense the universe is intensely alive. Even so-called inanimate objects - I often pick up little objects and just look at them and sense that they are alive. Physicists actually confirm that what we perceive as dead matter is not dead at all. Everything is an intensely alive energy field. That aliveness is only an aspect of the aliveness or life that I am."
"People are so... seem so chaotic internally, but being filtered through some form, like making a record, sort of filters it down into something that can be understood."
"Go to the east shore of any of the Hawaiian Islands, and that's a pretty big lesson on how much plastic is ending up in the ocean. Basically, the Hawaiian Islands act as a filter out in the middle of the Pacific."
"VaynerMedia filters the world how humans interact. This is how people are going to make buying decisions."
"I think of myself as an entertainer: I'm a performing entertainer, I'm a stand-up comic. But there's an artist at work here, too. One who interprets his world through his own filter."
"Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession."
"Charlie and I have a number of filters that things have to get through before we'll think about them."
"I enjoy watching children interact with the world, the way they engage their environment without any filters, learned models, or cynicism."
"We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we have these filters."
"The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist, and that those other worlds must contain experiences which have a meaning for our life also; and that although in the main their experiences and those of this world keep discrete, yet the two become continuous at certain points, and higher energies filter in."
"The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do."
"A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information."
"I definitely have been known to be grossly insensitive in many different ways, you can ask the wife. To speak without a filter sometimes and not being able to edit myself with much sensitivity."
"When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented."
"Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties."
"There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea."
