Alva Noe Quotes

Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

Alva Noe

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• Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Model

• My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Believe
  • Strong
  • Alone

• Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Position
  • Arts
  • Lillian Gish

• I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Country
  • Art
  • Parents

• I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Friend
  • Years
  • Sad

• The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Paper

• I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Like
  • Always
  • Leave

• Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Remember
  • Reality
  • Alone

• One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Me
  • Issues
  • Reform

• Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Taste
  • Personal
  • Niche

• I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Job
  • Black

• Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Age
  • Think
  • You

• A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Funny
  • Worth
  • Dime

• First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Process

• The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Cinema
  • British
  • Conformist

• The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Tired

• So things have gradually and gradually gotten worse and worse until the country is absolutely on the rocks now, and the people are suffering. And this is our hope, because so many people are suffering, have been persecuted and have been told 'Get into line, or else', and they know what 'or else' means.

  

  Ian Smith
  • People
  • Country
  • Hope

• Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Writing

• We never envisioned this much stuff. I'm overwhelmed by the support out there for the troops, ... only one company that will remain nameless turned us down.

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • Support
  • Company
  • Stuff

• Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • She
  • Woman
  • Old

• Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!

  

  Jerry Hall

• This house will bear witness to his piety; this town, his birthplace, to his munificence; history to his patriotism; posterity to the depth and compass of his mind.

  

  John Quincy Adams
  • Mind
  • History
  • House

• Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

  

  Alva Noe
  • Happens
  • Perception
  • We Do