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Perception Quotes
"My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias."
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"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."
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"The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed."
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"We make sense of the world intentionally. Faced with chaos, we seek or make the familiar, and build up the world with it. Babies do it, we all do it; we filter out most of what our senses report."
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"To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition of our own initial optical inaccuracies. However, such knowledge is not possible: for, while our vision of others is being adjusted, they, who are not made of mere brute matter, are also changing; we think we have managed to see them more clearly, but they shift; and when we believe we have them fully in focus, it is merely our older images of them that we have clarified, but which are themselves already out of date."
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"Close your eyes and open your mind. You will now see the beauty with your imagination."
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"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event."
49
"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. The world is a reflection of you."
43
"Your eyes need to be opened wider than your heart, when love is blinder than your eyes."
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"Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see."
37
"Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form."
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"The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem."
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"There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago."
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"Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality."
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"From the pavement, I could see the window of Albertine's room, that window, formerly quite black, at night, when she was not staying in the house, which the electric light inside, dissected by the slats of the shutters, striped from top to bottom with parallel bars of gold."
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"An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face."
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"They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity."
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"No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area."
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"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?"
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"We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms."
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"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."
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"What we touch with our fingers is false. What we feel through our perceptions is real. What we see through our eyes is an illusion, but what we see through our heart is real."
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"In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world."
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"We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs."
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"God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box."
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"Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end."
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"Have you taken leave of your senses."
29
"There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy."
28
"He could see the tall, peeling yellow building at the periphery of his range of vision. But something about it struck him as strange. A shimmer, an unsteadiness, as if the building faded forward into stability and then retreated into insubstantial uncertainty. An oscillation, each phase lasting a few seconds and then blurring off into its opposite, a fairly regular variability as if an organic pulsation underlay the structure. As if, he thought, it's alive."
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"Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts."
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"Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye."
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"Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. 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."
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"You can convert this human system into absolute receptivity, where you can perceive life in ways that you have never believed possible. If you keep all your ideas, emotions and your nonsense aside, maybe you can take a step, move one inch. One little step existentially is worth more than all the scriptures that you can read on the planet. One little step is far more important than all the philosophies that you can spout."
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"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge."
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"In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived."
27
"What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure."
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"Well, there would be no sound if we shout on the background."
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"Watch other people for clues about who they are, not just clues about how much they are or are not like you."
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"Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception."
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"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception."
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"Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others."
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"Not all light is good. There is negative light, that can cast bad shadows."
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"Every person sees the world through lenses of his or her own design-individual goggles that alter focus and perspective as desired. For those who wish the world to be dark and ugly and unapproachable, it is. But for those who wish it to be beautiful, it is a garden playground blooming with bright, happy colors."
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"Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up."
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"Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist."
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"Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment."
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