Perception Quotes

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.

Humans see what they want to see.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity. It creates in the mind of the prospect the perception that there is no product on the market quite like your product.

The amygdala, along with related areas..., plays a crucial role in coordinating perceptions with memory and behavior. These regions are especially sensitive to social interactions.

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

Perception determines insanity.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.

I know many members of our community steer clear of Wall Street because of the perception that the stock market is risky, but I am convinced the biggest risk of all is not taking one.

It is a common perception that actors don’t get along.

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

Let's stop being so damn judgemental & crucifying everyone who doesn't fit into our boxed-in perceptions of what is right.

Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

Perception starts with the eye.

A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love-from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything.

Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception.

However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.

Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.

What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.

We can control our lives by controlling our perceptions.

Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

Stick with your own perception of yourself-living in your own world-and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or particular situations, control your performance.

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.

The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.

Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

Social action, just like physical action, is steered by perception.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

Perception is NOT reality. People have always said that - perception is reality. I reject that hypothesis.

If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

The joy of juxtaposition is endless.

We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. No woman can be well dressed unless she is comfortable in what she is wearing.

I like doing a challenging class because it makes me more brave in life. My perception of hardships is now completely different. I'm not whining and moaning inside as much.

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

I've never been reckless - it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.