What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
– Alfred Whitehead
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- We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities. – Alfred North Whitehead
- Science is a river with two sources, the practical source and the theoretical source. – Alfred North Whitehead
- Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. – Alfred North Whitehead
- Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness. – Alfred North Whitehead
- The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. – Alfred North Whitehead
- If you perceive right you receive right. If you perceive wrong you receive wrong. – John Paul Warren
- What we seem to perceive influences what we feel, and what we feel influences what we say we perceive – Jenefer Robinson
- Let go of how you perceive others and how others perceive you. – Avis J Williams
- I live for my death. While it is important how you perceive me now, It is more imperative how generations to come would perceive me – Sahndra Fon Dufe
- We need to perceive ourselves as the special race.If not, beasts will perceive themselves as the chosen. – Toba Beta
- Those who cannot perceive are no better than those who cannot see…Those who cannot empathize are no better than those who cannot perceive… – Ashok Kallarakkal
- I wanted to kill her and make her eat her fringe. And her knickers. – Louise Rennison
- …and the country is like a great unfolded mantle with a green velvet cape bordered with a fringe of silver. – Gustave Flaubert
- Haunted trees covered behind the curtains of their own leaves stare at the dark from the fringe of streets. – Suman Pokhrel
- If you look at the world today, lies are mainstream. Truth is a fringe phenomenon. – Jaggi Vasudev
- There is a lot I could have anticipated but I live in present & there is no anticipation to it, I wish I had a time machine – Pushpa Rana
- I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination. – Charles Baudelaire
- Beauty becomes tinged with sadness when experienced alone. – Ava Zavora
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- The road home is tinged with regret and the road forward is full of the unknown. – Joaquin Lowe
- You must be present in the present to make it a present. – RVM
- You must be present in the present to make it a present. -RVM – RVM
- Memories establish the past – Senses perceive the present
- Do you have vivid picture of your visions in your mind? – Lailah Gifty Akita
- You ought to have a vivid picture of what you want. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The light in meonly wants toreach the darkness in you. – Vivid Darkness
- Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions. – Debasish Mridha
- The images in our mind is more vivid than the camera could ever produce. – Raigon Stanley
- Leave no livid life in your days but vivid days in your life – Ana Claudia Antunes
- If you can’t dream big, you will never see the vivid colors of probability over the darkness of possibility. – Shannon L Alder
- My mother says: ‘People who suffer from anxiety are usually those with the most vivid imaginations. – Sara Baume
- I have a vivid picture of what I want. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- I have travel to the places I have been because, I had a vivid imagination of the places. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background. – Van Wyck Brooks
- My sense of the past is vivid and slow. I hear every sign and see every shadow. – Barry Hannah
- I saw the Earth, yes. I saw the colors so magnificent, so vivid, so real. It was hope so large and round, green and blue. – Hafsah Laziaf
- It is stronge how smells can bring back vivid memories. – Mary Balogh
- Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid. – Eloisa James
- She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seven foreign languages . . . – Salman Rushdie
- I wish I’d been born with your capacity for wonder. I wouldn’t mind living a shorter life if my short life could be as vivid as yours. – Sara Baume