Frogs into Princes Quotes

“There's an illusion
that people understand each other when they can repeat the same
words. But since those words internally access different experiences—
which they must—then there's always going to be a difference in
meaning.”
― Richard Bandler & John Grinder, Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming

“If I use any words that don't have direct sensory referents, the only
way you can understand those—unless you have some program to
demand more sensory-based descriptions—is for you to find the
counterpart in your past experience.”
― Richard Bandler & John Grinder, Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming

“As Aldous Huxley says in his book The Doors of Perception, when
you learn a language, you are an inheritor of the wisdom of the people
who have gone before you. You are also a victim in this sense: of that
infinite set of experiences you could have had, certain ones are given
names, labeled with words, and thereby are emphasized and attract
your attention. Equally valid—possibly even more dramatic and
useful—experiences at the sensory level which are unlabeled, typically
don't intrude into your consciousness.”
― Richard Bandler & John Grinder, Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming

“My understanding is that language
is the accumulated wisdom of a group of people. Out of a potentially
infinite amount of sensory experience, language picks out those things
which are repetitive in the experience of the people developing the
language and that they have found useful to attend to in consciousness.”
― Richard Bandler & John Grinder, Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming

“In order for you to understand what I am saying to you, you have to
take the words—which are nothing more than arbitrary labels for parts
of your personal history—and access the meaning, namely, some set of
images, some set of feelings, or some set of sounds, which are the
meaning for you of the word "comfortable."That's a simple notion of
how language works, and we call this process transderivational search.
Words are triggers that tend to bring into your consciousness certain
parts of your experience and not other parts.”
― Richard Bandler & John Grinder, Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming

“When it comes to language, we're all wired the same. Humans have
pretty much the same intuitions about the same kinds of phenomena in
lots and lots of different languages. If I say "You that look understand
idea can," you have a very different intuition than if I say "Look, you
can understand that idea,"even though the words are the same. There's
a part of you at the unconscious level that tells you that one of those
sentences is well-formed in a way that the other is not.”
― Richard Bandler & John Grinder, Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming