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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."
114
"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."
97
"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."
70
"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them fully in focus, it is merely our older images of them that we have clarified, but which are themselves already out of date."
70
"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event."
65
"Close your eyes and open your mind. You will now see the beauty with your imagination."
62
"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. The world is a reflection of you."
51
"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."
49
"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."
46
"An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face."
46
"Your eyes need to be opened wider than your heart, when love is blinder than your eyes."
44
"The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem."
43
"In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world."
43
"Watch other people for clues about who they are, not just clues about how much they are or are not like you."
43
"Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form."
43
"Have you taken leave of your senses."
41
"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."
40
"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."
40
"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."
40
"The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses."
40
"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."
40
"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?"
39
"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."
38
"We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms."
38
"We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs."
38
"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."
38
"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."
38
"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."
38
"Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality."
37
"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."
37
"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."
37
"The illusion of choice is the greatest magic trick ever performed."
37
"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."
37
"Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end."
37
"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."
37
"Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye."
36
"If you are not happy with your life, it is most probably because you have eagle eyes to see the negative parts of your life and almost blind to the beautiful side!"
36
"There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy."
35
"In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived."
35
"Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment."
35
"The Truth must dazzle gradually. Or every man be blind."
35
"Well, there would be no sound if we shout on the background."
35
"You believe what your eyes want to believe!"
35
"Then the clarifying thing happens, and what you need to do, what you must do, is not a question, not demand more revelation than what is given, be quiet in the face of it, quiet and grateful that it has been given to you to see this, to be for even a short time aware of the extraordinary layered depths and profound beauty of the world to which we mostly blind ourselves."
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