Filters Quotes

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.

People don't care how you feel. You need to paint pictures, you need to tell stories. That's what people want. They want to be entertained. Then all of the other stuff kind of filters across as part of the whole thing.

We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

I have no limits, no filter, no class, no poise. No decorum. Just fun.

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.

I tell a lot of fart and poop jokes. I can't help it. I have no filter, and it just comes out.

High level womanness occurs and is freed when the filters and the boundaries in your womanness are no longer of use to you. As a woman you then move as your own Being.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

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.

Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.

I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.

If marketers could uncover what is going on in our brains that makes us choose one brand over another-what information passes through our brain's filter and what information doesn't-well, that would be key to truly building brands of the future.

I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.

I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.

You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in the end all you can achieve are memories, hazy, intangible, dreamlike memories which are impossible to articulate. When you try to relate them, there are only sentences, the dregs left from the filter of linguistic structures.

I want to live my life without filters. I don't walk on egg shells. I say what I want and I'm a very free spirit.

The interesting products out on the Internet today are not building new technologies. They're combining technologies. Instagram, for instance: Photos plus geolocation plus filters. Foursquare: restaurant reviews plus check-ins plus geo.

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.

We can only see what our brain’s filter allows through.

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.

Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal.

A true friend will go with the instagram filter that flatters you.

Imagine if the whole point of this experience on planet Earth was to just open ourselves up more fully to who we really are, without filters, without masks, without any restrictions.

I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera.

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.

A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.

Along with filters on computers and a lock on affections, remember that the only real control in life is self-control.

Your network is your filter.

Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day, or with a new prescription for your glasses - or with a new set of ideological filters.

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

I regard myself as being the final filter so everything that ends up in the movie is there because it's something that I think was cool.

The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.

I don’t use a computer. We have too much information and it’s really impossible to filter it.

The three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And then what?

Try to be a filter, not a sponge.

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.

RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.

Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight' photographs of the 1940s and 50s were no such thing. Ansell Adams would slap a red filter on his lens, then spend three days burning and dodging in the dark room, making his prints. That's a manipulation. Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

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.

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.

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.

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.

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.