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Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

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Sonia Johnson
American - Activist
Born: February 27, 1936

The quality of our attention determines our experience.

Deepak Chopra

By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly discerned nature of the spirit. A symbol does not define or explain; it points beyond itself to a meaning that is darkly divined yet still beyond our grasp, and cannot be adequately expressed in the familiar words of our language.

Carl Jung

My attention determines the depth and quality of my experience.

Karen Kingston

We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language.

George Carlin

Life is a series of moments. The quality of attention and action that we bring to each moment determines the quality of our lives.

Dan Millman

Unfortunately, race still determines too much, often determines where people live, determines what kind of education in their public schools they can get, and, yes, it determines how they're treated in the criminal justice system.

Hillary Clinton

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

Ntozake Shange

The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our action.

Jean-Baptiste Andre Godin

Fire is a symbol for so much. It's a symbol for change. It's a symbol for destruction. Out of the ashes of that comes an opportunity to start over. It's one of the greatest metaphors in nature that you can possibly lean on, especially as a songwriter. You're trying to describe either something coming to a complete and utter end or something that is in flux, or something that's on the verge of becoming something else.

Sam Roberts

If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence. So the only place where true change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is the Now.

Eckhart Tolle

All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we find that we have adapted a religion strikingly similar to many traditional faiths. Change "mathematics" to "God" and little else might seem to change. The problem of human contact with some spiritual realm, of timelessness, of our inability to capture all with language and symbol-all have their counterparts in the quest for the nature of Platonic mathematics.

John D. Barrow

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

Aldo Leopold

What we do about our feelings determines the quality of our relationship with ourselves.

Cheri Huber

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.

William James

What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.

Werner Heisenberg

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