Perception Quotes

If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it.

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

The perception is that more important people watch news in the evenings than in the mornings.

I think there's going to be a very sudden shift in people's perception of the International Space Station, because suddenly it's going to look much, much bigger than it already is.

Control the publics perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.

The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.

What could be a more Canadian way to indulge in the national preoccupation with perceptions - honest, hilarious, huffy or high-minded - of this country and its inhabitants?

Cooperation with others. Perception, experience, tenacity. Know when to lead and when to follow.

The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.

If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

Blessed are those that know the path out of their carnal flesh, for they shall attain intuition.

The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.

Mostly you are what they think you are.

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to be amiss, it is difficult to change that perception.

This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.

The perspective is more important than the perception

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.

Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current state of consciousness.

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.

Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.

Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.

You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.

It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus.

What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

I found out that changing the perception of myself and the NFL, and reestablishing the notion of being a gentleman was important to me.

Your life can only be as free as your perception of it

You can actually alter a person's perception when they're that young. I mean, it can affect them in a very positive way.