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Samuel Alexander

"An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought."

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"An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought."

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Donna Grant

"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."

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Donna Grant

"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."

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Donna Grant

"Give thy thoughts no tongue."

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Donna Grant

"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."

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Donna Grant

"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

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Donna Grant

"Doubt isn't original."

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Donna Grant

"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."

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Donna Grant

"Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out."

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Donna Grant

"The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity."

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Donna Grant

"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

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Samuel Alexander
"Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively."

Perception

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Samuel Alexander
"Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life."

Life

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Samuel Alexander
"It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment."

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Samuel Alexander
"An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought."

Thought

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Samuel Alexander
"Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse."

Desire

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

Perception

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Samuel Alexander
"When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical."

Thought

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Samuel Alexander
"It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name."

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Samuel Alexander
"Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis."

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Samuel Alexander
"The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis."

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