Cognitive Transformation Quotes

Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.

I want to change awareness.

The biggest lesson I have learned is the stupendous importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you what you are; by changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.

In nothing is there more evolution than the American mind.

To change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind.

I wanted to really just understand... how could a whole generation of children who were just children at the time - boys riding their bikes, flying kites, and doing all kinds of things they normally do - how could they suddenly be taught a completely different curriculum?

The only revolution that will change anything is a revolution of perception.

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.

That desire which is in us all to better other people's condition by having them think as we think.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

Reaction is what changes your understanding of the world.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears.

The aim of war now is not to defeat your enemy – that’s probably impossible – but to change the way he and his supporters think.

When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

A mind is a wonderful thing to change.

Take a person’s memories, and you change who they are.

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.

It's rewarding to be able to change people's perceptions of reality, ... They just see their environment in a different way. They have a kind of different-colored glasses that they can see their world in. To me, that's really cool - when games can change you.

To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.