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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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"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event."
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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 is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."
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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."
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"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. The world is a reflection of you."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Close your eyes and open your mind. You will now see the beauty with your imagination."
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"What you feel is making sense could really be dramatized nonsense. So think again."
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"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
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"The puzzle that is created by seeing the 'relative' is called worldly life (sansaar)! It would never be this way had one seen the 'Real'."
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"It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not."
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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."
2
"If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them."
2
"There. My ears are all dead. Now you try."Three times I repeated the movements she'd made. Slowly, carefully, but nothing left me with the impression that my ears had died. The wine was rapidly circulating through my system."I do believe that my ears aren't dying properly, " I said, disappointed.She shook her head. "That's okay. If your ears don't need to die, there's nothing wrong with them not dying."
2
"In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft."
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"I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk."
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"For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are."
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"The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental."
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"There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy."
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"I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things."
2
"To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself."
2
"He who has foresight has more than two eyes."
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"Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age."
2
"What is reality today was but a dream and an imagination not that long ago."
2
"On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes."
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"Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly."
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"Outer beauty you see with your eyes, but inner beauty you only see with your heart."
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"The world we create in our minds shapes the ultimate reality where we live."
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"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."
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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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"Time, Eddie had decided during this period, was in large part created by external events. When a lot of interesting shit was happening, time seemed to go by fast. If you got stuck with nothing but the usual boring shit, it slowed down. And when everything stopped happening, time apparently quit altogether. Just packed up and went to Coney Island. Weird but true."
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"So many sounds do come close to our ears each moment. What we allow into our mind and how we interpret what we listen to is what propels our thought and actions."
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"The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either."
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"Reframing encourages you to say, 'Let's look at this another way.' By changing the frame around a situation, you not only change your perception of it, but its meaning for you as well. If you were to take one painting and view it in three different frames, each combination would offer a completely different presentation. Your perceptions work the same way."
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"What you expect, it will find the way to appear."
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