Top 100 Filter Quotes
#1. The next question is how? How does news find us?
What you need is a certain critical literacy about the fact that you are almost always subject to an algorithm. The most powerful thing in your world now is an algorithm about which you know nothing about.
Kelly McBride
#2. In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.
B. Carroll Reece
#3. Phonogram is the memory of a long period in my life through a surprisingly small filter. Those characters are basically the golem who accompanied me on that decade and a half.
Kieron Gillen
#4. Among photojournalists there is still a sense that doing a photomontage is far graver than adding a filter. I am against this type of hierarchy that demonizes some options over others, demonizes them in respect to, what - ideology or moral code?
Joan Fontcuberta
#5. It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth.
Shannon L. Alder
#6. While the Internet can't be controlled 100 percent, it's possible for governments to filter content and discourage people from organizing.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#7. I've wanted you from the moment I saw you, Cherry. You
say what you mean and don't filter it ...
Kristen Callihan
#8. The best way to filter out the bad seeds was to place a job ad for Prime Minister in a national newspaper and all those that applied would be automatically disqualified.
Alex Scarrow
#9. I'm interested in sites that help people find information and filter what's available. The Internet is so big that no one can stay on top of everything.
Garrett Camp
#10. One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.
Kobe Bryant
#11. Standard issue helmets are designed to filter out smoke, not toxins.
Alan Dean Foster
#12. I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
Al Yankovic
#13. Trust is like that. Once you lose it, you begin to adjust your attitudes toward people, you put up guards, and filter the information you want them to know.
Gilly Macmillan
#14. There are no truths, there are no lies, only the filter before your eyes.
Elissa Young
#15. The truth of the matter is that we've all got cracks in our spirits, and we have to remember they're only there because we need them ... Otherwise, how could God's grace filter in deep enough to give us the joy and peace we're all searching for in this world. It couldn't, plain and simple.
Delia Parr
#16. It's always the most fun to play that guy who, like, doesn't have a filter - that really speaks exactly what they're feeling.
David Walton
#17. Depending on where The Great Filter occurs, we're left with three possible realities: We're rare, we're first, or we're fucked.
Tim Urban
#18. The room was dark and velvety from the royal blue wallpaper with its gold pattern, but even here the echo of the flaming day shimmered brassily on the picture frames, on doorknobs and glided borders, although it came through the filter of the dense greenery of the garden.
Bruno Schulz
#19. If you listen first, and write later, then what you write will have had time to filter through your brain and you'll be in what you say. This is what makes you exist. If you are only a reflector of information, are you really there?
Jaron Lanier
#20. No matter what happens, the world can be pretty ridiculous and people be pretty ridiculous, but how would you react? That's an easy filter to put any story through.
Steve Dildarian
#21. didn't have a filter either. I tended to say what I was thinking without thinking.
L.A. Casey
#22. The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
Byron Katie
#23. Filter a website, and you protect a student for a day. Educate students about online safety in the real world environment, and you protect your child for a lifetime.
Christopher Harris
#24. People see what they expect to see," he says sharply. "Through a filter of their own hatred and prejudice.
Laurie Forest
#25. Oh, because you're an alcoholic." Only when I heard those words did it filter through my own denial. Only then did I gain understanding.
David W. Earle
#26. Luckily, she'd remembered to wear her brain-to-mouth filter today.
. . .
"How big are you?" Apparently, her filter still let stupid questions slip out. (Angie)
Annie Nicholas
#27. Steve Jobes called anybody. He was fearless. When he was very young, he had no filter. He would call the president of Hewlett-Packard and the head of Atari and say, 'I'm Steve Jobs.' He just didn't take no for an answer.
Joshua Michael Stern
#28. Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.
S. Jay Olshansky
#29. When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or conventional filter between me and reality as there is in literature. The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#30. Like a water filter, your words filter needs to be replaced regularly to continue purifying.
Fawn Weaver
#31. 1 Minute Wisdom: Rethink Your Mindset because how you view, filter, interpret and automatically give meaning your experiences; is what you'll believe them to be.
Tony Dovale
#32. Why can't I remember our family Christmas, or a warm spring day, or anything that might have been pleasant? It is as though the filter of recall is itself altered, so that it blocks out everything but the darkest colors of the spectrum.
Caroline Kettlewell
#33. It's simply impossible for me to filter my thoughts and feelings. I tell it from my point of view. I'm an open book.
Lori Lesko
#34. I haven't been home for years. My mother's lack of a filter.
Matthew Quick
#35. The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do,
Will.i.am
#36. Writing is still a bit of a miracle - the whole process: I see the world, filter the world, write down abstract squiggles on a page which somebody is then able to connect with. I'm still amazed by it and think I always will be.
Rebecca Miller
#37. I find acting in contact lenses is bizarre to me, because there's just a giant filter between you and the world. I know it sounds painfully, ridiculously obvious, but it's true. You're just so detached.
Matthew Rhys
#38. That's the trouble with memories: everything seems much more fantastical with a childhood lens to filter out the limitations of reality.
Brielle A. Marino
#39. No scrim, no filter, no bullshit. She wasn't all bound up in there, gagged and furious and resentful beneath some high-pitched shrink-wrapped mess of pleasantry.
Elisa Albert
#40. We all make mistakes, but when I made mistakes there was no filter between me and the consumer.
Murray Walker
#41. This can be both a blessing and a curse. You are blessed with a wonderfully unique filter but cursed with a systematic inability to understand anybody else's.
Marcus Buckingham
#42. The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on
because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.
Noam Chomsky
#43. The heart [of my work], the quintessential, remains the questioning of photographic truth. Be careful, be critical, doubt, and filter the information you receive.
Joan Fontcuberta
#44. Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#45. Attention for children is so much about input, and the brain can only filter so much - I don't know how many millions of messages that come through the brain, and we can only filter so much through it.
Goldie Hawn
#46. The house of the Lord doesn't filter out the flock - Wanda Lovell
Britney Spears
#47. Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
Arianna Huffington
#48. Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed.
Kathy Mattea
#49. You can also use the experience level filter in LinkedIn to understand what level the job is at. This will help you decide what tier of job level you want to go for.
Olivia Gamber
#50. Cecelia turned her gaze away from the girls and looked at the shimmer blue of their kidney shaped swimming pool, with its powerful underwater light, the perfect symbol of suburban bliss, except for that strange intermit sound like a baby choking that was coming from the pool filter.
Liane Moriarty
#51. My school has apparently never seen someone so gothically adorable." "What does that even mean?" She smirks at me. "You know, dark, mysterious, sullen, yet cute." I gape at her. "Do you even have a filter?" She swiftly shakes her head. "No way. Where's the fun in that?
Jessica Sorensen
#52. We are as gods on our little rock in the vast bleak cosmos and it's way past time we started getting good at that instead of just posing on Olympus and photoshopping our zits out. The future is more than an Instagram filter.
Warren Ellis
#53. As far as putting stuff on social media, I think Instagram is really cool because I like the visual aspect. You're taking pictures, and you can put a filter on them, and it's super creative.
Ross Lynch
#54. I felt everything more intensely, saw everything as if a filter had been removed.
Jojo Moyes
#55. A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.
Umberto Eco
#56. I think a valid approach to being a musician is to take all of the experience of your life and filter it through your personality and send it back out there, and that's what art is.
David Sanborn
#57. When I sit down to write a song, there is no filter. I'm not trying to write for anyone or anything specifically. It's just trying to capture a little piece of your soul - even if it's a really ugly part.
Jenny Lewis
#58. Insecure leaders think everything is about them, and as a result, every action, every piece of information, every decision is put through their filter of self-centeredness.
John C. Maxwell
#59. We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images.
Dan Gilroy
#60. I've built a network that curates interestingness. In my universe, it encompasses thousands and thousands of filters and people, each person being a filter. So it's kinda cool. Like I've created my own utopia, removing the boring stuff and showing only the amazing stuff.
Jason Silva
#61. Sometimes divulging your vulnerabilities without any kind of filter can make you more human, but then again, it can also provide material that can be used against you.
Tonya Hurley
#62. I've never been bothered with my conduct. I've only been bothered by people that don't get it correct when they gossip about me.
Shannon L. Alder
#63. Buyers of powerful cars place a high premium on the exhaust note, and manufacturers spend a lot of money getting it right. At the same time, high-end cars are expected to filter out the sounds of the mundane world.
Serge Schmemann
#64. There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.
Tori Amos
#65. Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants ... or (again) parties.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#66. Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something.
Michaela Watkins
#67. There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea.
Jean Baudrillard
#68. I regard myself as being the final filter so everything that ends up in the movie is there because it's something that I think was cool.
Peter Jackson
#69. I had to send away for the
beacuse they are not available in any store.
They look the same as any sunglasses
with a light tint and silvery frames,
but instead of filtering out the harmful
rays of the sun.
they filter out the harmful sight of you
Billy Collins
#70. Any film that exists that is thorough, you can't give it to an audience of one and have that be effective communication. Communication involves an audience of many that have a conversation, put it through the ringer, filter it and then a sense of it coalesces.
Shane Carruth
#71. I tell a lot of fart and poop jokes. I can't help it. I have no filter, and it just comes out.
Tyler Posey
#72. What a time to have a brain-to-mouth filter malfunction.
E.L. James
#73. The rain is a screen that changes the colour of the sky, causing a sepia filter to fall over the city. It is as if the city has gone back in time, to the age before the invention of full-coloured photographs. Light becomes suffused and quiet.
Justin Ker
#74. There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.
Clay Shirky
#76. Machismo requires Latin blood. I'd say I never experienced machismo up close until I worked in a French office; the typical Wall Street gunner has the soul of a coffee filter in comparison.
Rosecrans Baldwin
#77. I wondered if she really was that rude, or if she had some sort of medical condition where the filter between her brain and her mouth had been broken since birth.
Robin Palmer
#78. As the evening mist worked its way into the scene, creating a warm filter through which the lowering sun bathed its light, it was all I could to to keep painting, and not just put my brushes down and soak it all in. Which, of course, I did for a while anyway.
Cory Trepanier
#79. Newspapers and magazines have been valuable to us precisely because they apply filters to information, otherwise known as editing, and often the Internet seems valuable for exactly the opposite reason: You can get your news without a filter.
Michael Specter
#80. The web can be a fast trip to the library, giving you immediate access to a government report, or it can filter media for you, which is why I look at around 15- 20 of these sites every day.
Ben Schott
#81. It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.
Leonard Shlain
#82. Lipstick stains on a cigarette filter summons to mind noir evenings of decadence. A girl with carmine lips smoking is obviously a girl who does not intend to go home alone that night.
Chloe Thurlow
#83. destroy me. love me. warp my image in photoshop with filter presets
push me off the brink of sanity. edit my sister sister fan fiction without my permish
Heiko Julien
#84. I don't think kids should think their lives have to be perfect or have a filter or the best angle or anything like that. I think it's important to see that everybody is human and everyone has their ups and downs.
Tyler Oakley
#85. Go to the east shore of any of the Hawaiian Islands, and that's a pretty big lesson on how much plastic is ending up in the ocean. Basically, the Hawaiian Islands act as a filter out in the middle of the Pacific.
Jack Johnson
#86. Yes and I appreciate it. But this is going to be difficult enough without running my words through a filter of illiteracy.
Kevin Hearne
#87. We can only see what our brain's filter allows through.
Eben Alexander
#88. I think Africa will have a crisper impact on Europe, as it has traditionally, and then that will filter into the American cultural psyche, in the way that India has.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#89. Women at the top are the ones chosen to be there by men and not eliminated by women, a dual filter that excludes most witches: those with brilliance and originality and those capable of disturbing the status quo.
Heather Marsh
#90. Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind.
Wes Nisker
#91. It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.
Joshua Foer
#92. Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.
Max Lucado
#93. You cannot survive in the information era, unless you breathe and filter information at your own pace, according to your own interests and passions.
Anonymous
#94. Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#95. Moving man's view of himself and life past common thinking, the true visionary faces great difficulty: exactly that deluded mindset the sage would have listeners outgrow is the very filter through which any new perspective must pass.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#96. It is easy to hurt people when we do not filter our thoughts, when we do not choose our words, when we do not control the tone of voice and the body language.
Saif Samir
#97. As I work, I see my writing - each scene, each chapter, each section, each book - in three-act structures and classic myths, and I analyze them through the handy filter of the detective story.
Nick Harkaway
#98. Why anyone needed to hold her breath above water was beyond me, but when I make things up, I rarely have a filter.
Chelsea Handler
#100. With no filter, he said, I thought it would have been softer. It was kinda salty ...
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