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We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us.

~Elizabeth Marvel

Topics: Able Character Experiences Imaginations Make Our Real Us Use

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We perceive through our senses a person, a situation or an event, and in an instant, we project our mental models - our fears, background and experiences - onto that perception. This often results in cognitive errors, which means we judge and respond incorrectly.

~Elizabeth Thornton

Topics: Background Cognitive Errors Event Experiences Fears Incorrectly Instant Judge Means Mental Models Often Onto Our Perceive Perception Person Project Respond Results Senses Situation Through Which

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The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and accepting what is happening in our lives. It helps us to be aware of and step away from our automatic and habitual reactions to our everyday experiences.

~Elizabeth Thornton

Topics: Accepting Attention Automatic Aware Away Before Being Creating Everyday Experiences Habitual Happening Helps Key Lives Mental Mindfulness Our Our Lives Paying Present Reactions Responding Space Step Us Way

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Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then reinforced in our memory and can continue to drive our behavior as adults.

~Elizabeth Thornton

Topics: About Adult Assumptions Behavior Childhood Continue Create Drive Emotionally Experiences Intense Memory Mental Models Our Reinforced Sometimes Strong Them Then Which

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I've been involved in politics for quite some time. I've held positions, and my experiences are very deep, and I think I have the capacity, the courage, and the character to institute the kinds of reforms that are so desperately needed.

~Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Topics: Been Capacity Character Courage Deep Desperately Experiences Held Institute Involved Kinds Needed Politics Positions Quite Quite Some Time Reforms Some Think Time Very I Think

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Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Because Been Between Conception Confessions Conflict Conventional Deep Desired Experiences Her Insight Intimidated Justly Learn Life Life Experiences Man Men Purity Regard Should Woman Womanly Women

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First, I used some of my own experiences and observations from attending a public high school. Secondly, I joined in some Internet chat rooms for gays and lesbians.

~Ellen Muth

Topics: Attending Chat Experiences First Gays High High School Internet Joined Lesbians My Own Observations Own Public Rooms School Secondly Some Used

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There's some intimacy in reading, some thoughtfulness that doesn't exist in machine experiences.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Exist Experiences Intimacy Machine Reading Some

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I think that focusing all experiences through the lens of the Internet is an example of not being able to see history through the eyes of others, to be so enamored of one's present time that one cannot see that the world was once elsewise and was not about you.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Able About Being Cannot Enamored Example Experiences Eyes Focusing History Internet Lens Once Others Present Present Time See Think Through Time World You I Think

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I wasn't able to relate to anyone on TV growing up, so I wanted to bring my own experiences to the screen.

~Ellen Wong

Topics: Able Anyone Bring Experiences Growing Growing Up My Own Own Relate Screen Tv Up Wanted

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