Perception Quotes

My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like “Spy Kids.”

There's a perception that good writing is writing which runs smoothly. But smooth-running prose can work against what you're trying to express in a novel.

The IMPP work was already very important. The recent AOL action might reinforce public perception that a standard is needed, but I think the public already realized this.

He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against for a lifetime.

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.

It's very difficult to change the perception people have of you.

Gasoline inventories are tighter than they were a few weeks ago. It's all about perception, because inventories are well above where they have been in previous years.

Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it.

What if nothing needs to change other than our perception of what we see?

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

Whether I'm a hero or a zero doesn't really matter. It's all perception.

Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.

I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life.

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

The lack of predictability with television is something that's constantly changing what your perception of who you think your character is.

Perception of a state is not the state.

I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.

We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.

There's definitely a huge gap between the elite and public perceptions on immigration.

There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses.

No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

Human perception is literally incarnation.

Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

A brand is a person's perception. Of course, it makes marketers nervous to think that marketing is out of their control, but that's why the discipline of branding has emerged.

Compassion is an alternate perception

Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.

I should choose to be happy. You can choose; you can just throw a switch since, your whole life, it?s just in your brain anyway. It?s just your perception of it.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.

It's fantastic that the world is becoming more open to different ways of working, but we still have a long way to go in terms of changing perceptions.

Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance.

You can't control the perception of others no matter how hard you try. Do things that promote personal growth and health.

... and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.

The [Edward] Snowden disclosures created this perception that people's privacy was being put at significant risk.

It is important to note that the world changes and that perception of music changes as well.

I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.

I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.

I think that there are a lot of reasons to be insecure as an actress... But I don’t really have a perception issue. I’ve been pretty good about being who I am in the public’s eye.

I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.

Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.

Perspective should be learned - and then forgotten. The residue - a sensitivity to perspective - helps perception, varying with each individual and determined by his responsive needs.

The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society

I am telling you that your perception of ultimate reality is more limited than you thought, and that Truth is more unlimited than you can imagine.

A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.