Receives

Famous quotes containing the word receives:

“He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.”
—Anna C. Brackett (1836–1911)

“The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stood there from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.”
—William James (1842–1910)

“My own, my human mind, which passively
Now renders and receives fast influencings,
Holding an unremitting interchange
With the clear universe of things around;”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)