Quotes about perception
perception firsts energy
...The human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty. James Redfield
perception world knows
Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it. Lamar Odom
perception church doe
Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was. It not only divides States and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine. Henry David Thoreau
perception absurdity
For me, it feels like my ideas are more specific to random thoughts or single ideas I might have, as opposed to being influenced by a general perception of absurdity. Jon Glaser
perception care talent
Control the publics perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent. Rashida Jones
perception care voters
Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective. Ron Fournier
perception puppets may
It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974) Stanley Milgram
perception world function
I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan? Stephen Baldwin
perception matter facts
Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty. Stephen Colbert
perception matter facts
It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. Stephen Colbert
perception world vastness
The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness. Robert Delaunay
perception mind essentials
Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential. Wallace Stevens
perception essentials conception
Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential. Wallace Stevens
perception world imagine
We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception. Walter Lippmann
perception madness reason
What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them. Voltaire
perception desire
Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived. William Blake
perception ease information
Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information. Samuel Dash
perception experience vulgar
Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena. Samuel Beckett
perception phrases lenses
Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase. Salman Rushdie
perception earth spirit
When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance. Rudolf Steiner
perception awareness indirect
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge. Ramana Maharshi
perception birth elegance
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth. Ralph Waldo Emerson
perception mind division
How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is. Ralph Waldo Emerson
perception structure senses
The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of. Ralph Waldo Emerson
perception degrees taste
We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with. Ralph Waldo Emerson
perception life-is should
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again. Ralph Waldo Emerson
perception action social
Social action, just like physical action, is steered by perception. Kurt Lewin
perception world ornaments
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another. Neil Postman
perception world life-is
The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception. Marcus Aurelius
perception human-nature unhappiness
Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception Marcus Aurelius
perception haste hours
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. Marcus Aurelius
perception language gloss
A gloss is a total system of perception and language. Talcott Parsons
perception quality generations
The perception is that -- and I know many of us have heard this anecdotally -- many third and fourth generations of IU families are opting not to go to here because they perceive the quality of IU is going down. Tom Reilly