"The environment as we perceive it is our invention,"

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Source : Heinz von Foerster (2007). “Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition”, p.212, Springer Science & Business Media

Heinz von Foerster

#Environment Quotes #Invention Quotes #Perceive Quotes

“When you help someone up a hill, you find yourself closer to the top.”
“Sometimes it seems to me that God 's way of dealing with me is not to let me see much of my friends, those who are most to me in the spiritual life, lest I should forget that the invisible bond is the only reality. That is the only way I can reconcile myself to the inevitable separations of life and death.”
“I love 'Gossip Girl.' I used to hang out with Blake Lively and Jessica Szohr. I'm also addicted to Bravo and reality shows like 'Top Chef.'”
“Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It's not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He's made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, "Let's go do that together.”
“It's amazing that for actors mostly, it's a risk to attach yourself to a film that you don't know whether or not it's going to even be made and if you sign on, in doing so, who else is going to be in the movie with you.”
“I'm not the crazy chick that people think I am. I am truly a human being, I'm not just this suspicious character in a magazine or book; I'm a real person. Be a little more gentle, be a little more kind.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“I love my friends. I love my love-life. I love my hobbies. I love eating.”
“I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. February 13, 2006.

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