Samuel Alexander Quotes

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

Samuel Alexander

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• When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Think
  • Disappear

• I write in a small office at home.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Small
  • Office

• If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll. If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Long
  • You
  • Enjoy

• You can't choose up sides on a round world.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • World
  • Choose

• I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Why
  • Want
  • Body

• On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Long
  • Children
  • Home

• I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • World
  • Kids
  • Focus

• Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Fear
  • Worst
  • Hazards

• CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Going
  • Minute
  • Fired

• I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Guess
  • Willingness
  • Audacity

• Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • You
  • Eye
  • Look

• Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Growth
  • End
  • Win

• I do not live in the world of sobriety.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • World
  • Live
  • Sobriety

• Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Language

• My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Long
  • American
  • Law

• One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!

  

  Zendaya
  • Fashion
  • Dreams
  • Week

• The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
  • Way
  • Poor

• I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • More
  • Certainly
  • Mail

• It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Act
  • Smoke
  • Absurd

• I am not against the pharmaceutical companies. I love them. That's not the issue. The issue is, in some cases, when they do these clinical trials, they control the data. They analyze the data. In some cases, they even write the article. And that leads to at least the perception, if not the reality, that there's a conflict of interest.

  

  Catherine D. DeAngelis
  • Writing
  • Reality
  • Interest

• I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • You
  • Friend
  • Said

• If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you're going to polarize people. And without that polarity, there's no discussion. Discussion is what I want, which means that I'm fine with the consequences.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Opinion
  • Consequences
  • Online

• The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Perception
  • Act
  • Mental