Perception Quotes

One of the sweet and expectable aspects of life afloat is the perpetual present moment one lives in and a perception that time is nothing more than the current, an eternal flowing back to the sea.

The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.

Perception is a powerful tool.

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.

We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing most of what's going on.

How the world perceives you is largely out of your control.

It's a common perception that science and religion are mutually exclusive. But there are many scientists who would consider themselves to be spiritual people.

Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.

He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment. [Lat., Quem dii diligunt, Adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.]

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

The French have a different take on photography than Americans do. They consider photography to be absolutely parallel to literature. That often makes for a deeper perception of the work.

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

The life you are living is your creation, your perception of reality that you can change at any time.

In order to see the world clearly, you must clean the windows of perception. The only problem is, our society doesn't do windows.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

The boundaries of design are the same as the problem of perception.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.

Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.

Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

Money itself isn’t lost or made. It’s simply transferred from one perception to another.

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

Life is not black and white when it comes to perception.

Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.

The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.

Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception.

Perception is a wave. You change as your perception of something changes because you define yourself as a reflection of whatever you happen to perceive.

The other person has wrong perceptions about himself and about us. And we have wrong perceptions about ourselves and the other person. And that is the foundation for violence and conflict and war.

A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.

Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.

Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

Consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain GOD perception.

Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

Anything the human mind can believe, the human mind can achieve

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

There was a perception that the emerging-market problems aren't over and concern that may Brazil devalue.

You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else's plan for you.