Perception Quotes

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be satisfied with what we have.

I'm not worried about misconception or a perception that's bad. If I were, I'd be chasing something all the time.

My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.

Intelligence essentially means that your intellect is sharp enough to see life the way it is.

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.

Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.

Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of sensuality and perception of the corporeal self.

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.

I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended to.

Yeah, I think it's like any God-given gift. You writers have the gift of perception. If you don't use it, you're going to lose it. And it's the same thing with you [Lorraine], it's God-given.

Foosball screwed up my perception of soccer. I though you had to kick the ball and then spin around and around. I can't do a back flip, much less several simultaneously with two other guys.

I know you can't please everybody; you can't make everybody happy, but just getting that perception that I don't care about basketball and what it brings is a lie.

There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.

For the perception of the beautiful we have the term "taste"--a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and transferred to that which is active in the mind.

Truth is never negative. Only one's perception of it is.

The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.

Your perception of racing needs to be fine-tuned

In meditation the mind stops, thought ceases. When thought stops, the world stops. When the world stops, perception stops. When perception stops, the sense of "I" as a perceiver falls away.

The images we see, as a culture, help define and expand our dreams, our perceptions of what is possible. Pictures of who we are help us visualize who we can be.

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

Karma means who you are and where your awareness field is on the band of perception.

A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first step, and then you have a kind of hard road of execution.

I've got a different perception now and it's really enjoyable to be at this point in your life and be able to watch this.

I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.

Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.

Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity

I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.

To me the ambiguity is, maybe our perception of ourselves is always going to be different than somebody else's perception. There will always be that disparity.

I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.

Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception.

I've actually never been taken on a date in my whole life. I have never had a one-night stand. I'm a real relationship person — contrary to public perception.

Reality is perfect light. It frees you from the limitations of this world, from the ugliness, from the unhappiness of limited perception.

Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not.

I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth.

But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.

Reincarnation is a process in which a finite being will go through a series of transmutations and will perceive different things. There will be a continuity of perception.

It's strange how knowledge changes perception.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.

A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.