Filter Quotes

I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples. (John Updike)
Try to be a filter, not a sponge. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea. View quote
Jean Baudrillard
We all make mistakes, but when I made mistakes there was no filter between me and the consumer. View quote
Murray Walker
I feel like I missed my era, because I remember the time when black people uplifted each other and looked for the positives. I feel sorry for the people who live their lives in the negative default setting because they filter out what's good, and that's no way to live. View quote
Michael Jai White
I tell a lot of fart and poop jokes. I can't help it. I have no filter, and it just comes out. View quote
Tyler Posey
You've got to go with what feels instinctive and true to your heart, and filter out all of the other stuff. View quote
Alison Goldfrapp
The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter. View quote
Donald Luskin
Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something. View quote
Michaela Watkins
For every good idea, expect to have five, ten, twenty wrong or useless ideas. You cannot avoid the bad ideas if you keep your imagination free. There is no spam filter for bad ideas. View quote
Martin Lewis Perl
Cajal revealed the precision of the interconnections between populations of individual nerve cells. Mountcastle, Hubel, and Wiesel revealed the functional significance of those patterns of interconnections. They showed that the connections filter and transform sensory information on the way to and within the cortex, and that the cortex is organized into functional compartments, or modules. (Eric Kandel)
There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing. View quote
Tori Amos
The moment with Hawkeye is all about mutual attraction, expressed without filter from him, and a surrendering of social guardedness from Cora. She accepts his directness as her own. View quote
Madeleine Stowe
The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun. View quote
Elliott Smith
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left. View quote
Arianna Huffington
The reason propaganda works is that most people are too involved or too stupid to recognize it as propaganda. People claim to understand the bias and filter it out, but that's absurd. Of course they don't. View quote
Ann Coulter
I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol. View quote
Taylor Swift
More fundamentally, I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
We must pass the great filter! View quote
Elon Musk
Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it's wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don't avoid. View quote
Ray Comfort
I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective," Jennings said. Jennings said that everyone - even journalists - have points of view through which they filter their perception of the news. It could be race, sex or income. But, he said, reporters are ideally trained to be as objective as possible. "And when we don't think we can be fully objective, to be fair. (Peter Jennings)
My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them. View quote
Daniel Radcliffe
I have no limits, no filter, no class, no poise. No decorum. Just fun. View quote
Kathy Griffin
True happiness is impossible without solitude.... I need solitude in my life as I need food and drink and the laughter of little children. Extravagant though it may sound, solitude is the filter of my soul. It nourishes me, and rejuvenates me. Left alone, I discovered that I keep myself good company. View quote
Sophia Loren
Her countenance was like a newborn's, just taking everything in without filter or defense. View quote
Vanna Bonta