Perception Quotes

Everything is a state of mind. Astral travel is the ability to wander through different states of mind and develop psychic perceptions.

We need to believe that we're good people, and we'll do just about anything to maintain that perception.

It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)

Songs are as sad as the listener.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

We have to change the perception that ANC members are corrupt just because of a few greedy individuals.

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

It's the not the subject that interests me as much as my perception of the subject.

Beyond our most stubborn misperception lies often our fondest dream.

Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things.

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.

In our business, except in media buying, there are few economies of scale. Client perception of creative agencies is that the bigger they are, the worse they are.

You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent.

I think perception is important.

Never accept other people's limited perceptions of you. Define yourself. You can do anything.

You are a piece of creation. If you go against any other piece of creation, you are unknowingly going against yourself.

The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.

As we learn we always change, and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.

In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

Perception has always interested me. The idea thatbehind every face, there are a thousand faces. Beneath the placidveneer of middle America, there lies terror.

I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don't have any regard for anyone else's perception.

Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you.

You don't need Beanie Sigel in the building with a pre-perception that this crazy dude might do anything.

The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.

I communicate my innermost perceptions through art.

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.

There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence