Perception famous quotes

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
-- A. E. Housman

#Perception #Literature #Dull

STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.
-- A. O. Scott

#Perception #Stories #World

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.
-- Abbas Kiarostami

#Expression #Perception #Way

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

#Art #Perception #Works Of Art

The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows.
-- Adolfo Bioy Casares

#Love Is #Perception #Shadow

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
-- Agnes Martin

#Forever #Perception #Mind

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

#Perception #World #Clear

Sometimes isn’t it better to have some time and space to ourselves? We will have new perception of things.
-- Ai Yazawa

#Space #Perception #Sometimes

Your beliefs and perceptions determine the boudaries of your world.
-- Al Duncan

#Achievement #Perception #World

The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.
-- Al Gore

#House #Perception #Climate

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
-- Al Pacino

#Stars #Perception #Actors

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.
-- Al Ries

#Successful #Perception #Mind

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.
-- Alan Autry

#Cities #Perception #Momentum

It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.
-- Alan Hansen

#Ambition #Perception #Prudent

Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.
-- Alan Hirsch

#Self #People #Perception

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.
-- Alan Moore

#Spiritual #Perception #Consciousness

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
-- Alan Watts

#Eye #Perception #Listening

But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.
-- Alan Watts

#Skills #Taoism #Perception

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
-- Alban Berg

#Reflection #Feelings #Perception

It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.
-- Albert Einstein

#Perception #World #Behinds

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
-- Albert Einstein

#Music #Discovery #Perception

If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.
-- Albert Ellis

#People #Perception #Evaluation

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.
-- Aldo Leopold

#Good Life #Rivers #Perception

To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large-This is the experience of inestimable value to everyone.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Art #Animal #Perception

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.
-- Aleatha Romig

#Reality #Perception #Looks

There is always that one band that comes along when you are 14 or 15 years old that manages to hit you in just the right way and changes your whole perception of things
-- Alex Turner

#Years #Perception #Band

We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.
-- Alexander Rodchenko

#Eye #Perception #Veils

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
-- Alexis Carrel

#Reality #Perception #Intuition

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Perception #Foundation #Eternity

Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Perception #Triumph #Negative

At last, Mythic feeling and conscious perception no longer confront each other as antagonists but as allies. Passionate nationalism is no longer directed toward tribal, dynastic or theological loyalties, but toward that primal substance, the racially based nationhood itself. Here is the message which will one day melt away all dross, eliminate all that is base, and bring into being all that is noble.
-- Alfred Rosenberg

#Loyalty #Feelings #Perception

You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.
-- Alison Jackson

#Perception #Rely

I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception.
-- Alison Jackson

#Perception #Rely

Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to find an affirmation to our own world perception and set of values.
-- Amalia Kahana-Carmon

#Book #Reading #Perception

There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but perception, viewed through various prisms of context.
-- Amish Tripathi

#Reality #Opposites #Perception

The perspective is more important than the perception
-- Amit Abraham

#Perspective #Perception #Important

Enjoy the limitless bliss consciousness here and now. The reality of you lies much beyond your sensory perceptions and boundaries.
-- Amit Ray

#Lying #Reality #Perception

From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.
-- Ananda Coomaraswamy

#Views #Perception #Royal

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.
-- Andre Breton

#Mean #Perception #Awareness

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.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky

#Emotional #Perception #Cinema

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Understanding #Perception #Way

The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.
-- Andy Stanley

#Taken #Roots #Perception

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.
-- Angelina Jolie

#Bullying #Stupid #Perception

For truly in nature there are many operations that are far more than mechanical. Nature is not simply an organic body like a clock, which has no vital principle of motion in it; but it is a living body which has life and perception, which are much more exalted than a mere mechanism or a mechanical motion.
-- Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway

#Life #Perception #Principles

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.
-- Anne Rice

#Perspective #Perception #Different

You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too.
-- Anthony Davis

#Artist #Perception #Mystery

In my view, the holy is not based so much on the physical environment, but on the experience and perceptions of it.
-- Anthony Lawlor

#Views #Perception #Environment

Women's thoughts are impelled by their feelings. Hence the sharp-sightedness, the direct instinct, the quick perceptions; hence also their warmer prejudices and more unbalanced judgments. In this the child is like the woman.
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#Children #Feelings #Perception

We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive component that announces an unequivocal link between images and the existence of life in our organism.
-- Antonio Damasio

#Perception #Mind #Links

Perception starts with the eye.
-- Aristotle

#Eye #Perception

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . .
-- Aristotle

#Soul #Perception #Growth

Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.
-- Arne Glimcher

#Art #Perception #Tools

I communicate my innermost perceptions through art.
-- Arshile Gorky

#Art #Perception #Painting

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.
-- Arthur C. Clarke

#Learning #Technology #Perception

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Laughter #Real #Perception

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

#Real #Perception #Painting

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.
-- Arthur Smith

#People #Interesting #Perception

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.
-- Asger Jorn

#Artist #Perception #Fields

The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.
-- Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#Country #Unique #Perception

All existing things upon this earth, which have knowledge of their own existence, possess, some in one degree and some in another, the power of thought, accompanied by perception, which is the awakening of thought by the effects of external objects upon the senses.
-- Augustus De Morgan

#Perception #Degrees #Earth

By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar

#Drawing #Silence #Perception

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

#Crazy #Perception #Needs

Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.
-- Ben Affleck

#People #Perception #Credit

You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different.
-- Bernhard Langer

#People #Perception #Different

There are many types of emotional abuse but most is done in an attempt to control or subjugate another person. Emotional abuse is like brainwashing in that it systematically wears away at the victim's self-confidence, sense of self, trust in her perceptions and self-concept.
-- Beverly Engel

#Self Confidence #Emotional #Perception

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
-- Beverly Sills

#Art #Perception #Environmental

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.
-- Beyonce Knowles

#Views #Feminist #Perception

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.
-- Bill Blass

#Fashion #Reality #Perception

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

#Reality #Differences #Perception

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

#Reality #Perception #Might

I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.
-- Bill Nighy

#Average #Perception

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
-- Billy Joel

#Artist #Sea #Perception

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Faith #Perception

No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Men #Perception #Doe

Experiencing a massage therapy session is its own best advertisement for changing perceptions. A recent national consumer survey found Americans had overwhelmingly positive feelings about their massage experience. Ninety-four percent express favorable feelings. Fully 85 percent expressed very favorable feelings about their most recent massage, with 37 percent rating it a perfect ten-out-of-ten. What is striking is that there are very few detractors. Most of those who haven't yet received a massage simply haven't felt a need for it
-- Bob Benson

#Perfect #Feelings #Perception

I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
-- Bobby Seale

#Fire #Political #Perception

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.
-- Brian Greene

#Perception #World #Patterns

Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance.
-- Brian Tracy

#Average #Excellence #Perception

Our perception of time is indeed our reality.
-- Brigid Schulte

#Reality #Perception

The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body.
-- Bruce H. Lipton

#Perception #Body #Chemistry

We can control our lives by controling our perceptions.
-- Bruce H. Lipton

#Health #Perception #Live By

Life has everything in it. But you only see what your perception allow you to see
-- Bruce H. Lipton

#Perception

With the exception of weapons of mass destruction, there is no other type of attack that is more effective than suicide terrorism. The perception is that it's impossible to guard against.
-- Bruce Hoffman

#Suicide #Perception #Weapons

The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.
-- Bruce Jenner

#Sports #Kids #Perception

Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion
-- Bruce Lee

#Understanding #Perception #Inquiry

Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.
-- Bruce Lee

#Self #Perception #Rewards

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
-- Byron Katie

#Positivity #Perception #Filters

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
-- Byron Katie

#Perception #Stories #World

I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.
-- Calvin Harris

#Perception #Sometimes #Pretending

But that is the thing about miracles: it is perception that determines them as such, not facts.
-- Camilla Gibb

#Miracle #Perception #Facts

Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time perhaps more old-fashioned than modern.
-- Carl Bernstein

#Feminist #Perception #Saint

Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.
-- Carl Jung

#Ideas #Intuition #Perception

There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.
-- Carl Jung

#Psychics #Psychology #Perception

The education situation which most effectively promotes significant learning is one in which (1) threat to the self of the learner is reduced to a minimum and (2) differential perception of the field of experience is facilitated
-- Carl Rogers

#Self #Feminist #Perception

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.
-- Carl Sagan

#Errors #Perception #Optical Illusions

Perception is everything and that becomes the reality. It's a big problem for Hillary Clinton.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Reality #Perception #Problem

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.
-- Carrie Vaughn

#Reality #Perception #Arguing

I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
-- Carson McCullers

#Tree #Perception #Green

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.
-- Caspar David Friedrich

#Perception #Painting #Should

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.
-- Cat Deeley

#Perception #Fame #Changed