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Perception Quotes
"Finding beauty in the common is the sign of a gifted mind."
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"We don't need eyes to judge people's beauty, but unfortunately we judge them as we see."
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"That was the problem with the outside world, the human world. The whole thing was made up puzzles, of a language she didn't quite speak."
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"Even if everybody is looking at the same light bulb, the unique composition of an individual will dictate how they interpret and see things. Some people will only see things with their left eye (mind/moon), while others will use only their right (heart/sun). Some people are completely void of light and repel it immediately. For instance, a beetle will chase after an opening of light, while a cockroach will scatter at a crack of it. How are we different than the insects? Nobody is purely good or purely evil. Most of us are in-between. There are moths that explore the day and butterflies that play at night. Polarity is an integral part of nature - human or not human."
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"Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip."
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"Perception is assumed to be reality until clients encounter the reality of the brand, don't fake it."
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"Your EYES not only see everything around you AS IS, but also PROJECT what you wish look in this world!"
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"When I look into my past, only then can I see the trending future."
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"You can see the whole entire world in the eyes of a person who knows how to simply stand there and take all of it into him but then you can look into the eyes of someone else and the whole entire world goes away and all that's left is you."
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"Taken together, it's almost a sure sign. The letters float off the page when you read, right? That's because your mind is hardwired for ancient Greek. And the ADHD-you're impulsive, can't sit still in the classroom. That's your battlefield reflexes. In a real fight, they'd keep you alive. As for the attention problems, that's because you see too much, Percy, not too little. Your senses are better than a regular mortal's."
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"Some people are farsighted and some people are nearsighted. In the mind and in the heart. A farsighted person forgets your magic the closer that you get to them; the nearsighted person sees your magic more and more, the closer and closer that you become to them. You've got to find the nearsighted people. That's just a rule in life. And you've got to be one, too."
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"The paramanus [indivisible atoms] of mind-speech and body are effective. That is why things appear as good or bad. It shows good as being bad and bad as being good. And because of that, opinions are formed. The parmanus [indivisible atoms] of mind-speech-body themselves express opinions."
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"People will look at the world without seeing anything beyond their unconscious expectation."
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"Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought."
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"Eyes are a deaf man's ears. Ears are a blind man's eyes."
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"The world we create in our minds shapes the ultimate reality where we live."
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"Florentino Ariza always forgot when he should not have that women, and Prudencia Pitre more than any other, always think about the hidden meanings of questions more than about the questions themselves."
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"I tend to think my eye's vision is still 20/20, because they mind their own business."
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"Everybody loves comfort, but that is an illusion my friends."
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"Using two-dimensional lenses to perceive the multi-faceted world can limit your ability to observe the world more objectively."
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"What other people think is important to them. What you think has great importance to you."
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"Some of the things he's said over the past few days are starting to make sense, and I begin to feel more and more like the people I despise. He told me outright that he would answer anything if I just asked, yet I chose to believe the rumours about him instead. No wonder he was so irritated with me. I was treating him just like everyone else treats me."
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"Two people can illustrate crudity to you.The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one."
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"What lies behind the innocent looks? What lies behind the kind words? What lies behind the gentle smiles? Do not remain on the surface of the things; go behind them so that you can compare the seen with the unseen, the surface with the depth to find out whether they are the same or not!"
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"Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth."
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"Everyone has beautiful eyes but they often see ugliness not the beauty of life."
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"When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!"
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"There is something great in whatever you look at. Many people look but few people see;to leave a distinctive footprint, do not just look but see for seeing will make you different."
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"They were making a riotous noise, but it was much more like music - rather advanced music which you don't quite take in at the first hearing - than birds' songs ever are in our world."
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"What you focus upon will always tend to rule what is experienced."
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"Eating a salad (in public) is an overweight person's attempt to appear in control."
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"It's in my head now. It's a memory. No camera could have captured what I saw and felt."
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"We perceive the world through the rear window of life, observe all the puzzles and little pieces of our existence and assemble them in a comprehensive pattern. This allows us to reassess and evaluate our world view. ['Waiting for the pieces to fall into place']"
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"Not how well you see in a clear weather but how well you see in a foggy weather determines how better you are than others!"
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"You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking."
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"The earliest bird gets the worm only if the worm is stupid enough to show up."
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"Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole universe emerges from the activity of the little specks of jelly inside our skull."
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"What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?"
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"A beautiful gift does not decrease in value because it is wrapped in ugly paper."
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"People see what they expect to see."
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"Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself."
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"Do you look like the photograph on your book jackets? Authors, I find, seldom do."
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"It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary."
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"Each man lives in many worlds within different life.Mind can only see world in which it lived and located."
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"There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black - in itself."
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"As long as your mind has the contemplation 'the tiger is a violent animal', it will remain violent. And if your contemplation is, 'the tiger is a pure soul', then it will not remain violent. Everything is possible."
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"The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in livingcreatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were inrepose, their minds untroubled, their bodies motionless."
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"I found a way to see in the dark. Close your eyes."
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"Ah, sir, that's just mean. She's not a Victoria's Secret model. but she's pretty in her way."
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