"There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago."

J. Robert Oppenheimer, American Physicist

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"How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality, narrowly or completely."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Changing your perception will alter your interpretations and therefore, your reality. If you feel like you're hitting a wall because you simply don't understand something, or another person has a different approach, keep your mind open and willing to reinterpret it with fresh eyes, more information, a change in position, or a new perspective."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"Everybody loves comfort, but that is an illusion my friends."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"With your mind alert and your eyes wide open, you will be better able to assess your space and your place for optimizing exchanges and your communication impressions."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"When the brain becomes too tired, the mind stops decrypting the perceptions in our mental world and surrenders willingly to the unguarded moments of life.For some time, the safeguards of our thinking pattern weaken and discontinue the decoding of the chips of daily reality.The mind picks the instants which are above suspicion, pure and innocent. ['Uber alle Gipfeln ist Ruh']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

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"They were making a riotous noise, but it was much more like music - rather advanced music which you don't quite take in at the first hearing - than birds' songs ever are in our world."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The creature was there, a curiously shaped creature no doubt, but all loathing had vanished clean out of his mind, so that neither then nor at any other time could he remember it, nor ever understand again why one should quarrel with an animal for having more legs or eyes than oneself."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Some people aren't really light-teethed, they're merely dark-skinned."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"We often focus on what is wrong and complain that nothing is beautiful."

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"Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth."

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"How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality, narrowly or completely."

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"There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago."