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Perception Quotes
"Your thoughts, beliefs, and interpretations initiate and largely determine how you experience your reality."
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"I do not like odd things until I can understand them."
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"How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality, narrowly or completely."
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"It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that."
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"To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light."
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"You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will be there."
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"We don't see things. We see reflections of our feelings and perceptions."
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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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"Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively."
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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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"No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye."
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"Eyes can't sense a smell of rain before it drops.Mind can't see event of future before it happens."
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"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
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"Eating a salad (in public) is an overweight person's attempt to appear in control."
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"The creature was there, a curiously shaped creature no doubt, but all loathing had vanished clean out of his mind, so that neither then nor at any other time could he remember it, nor ever understand again why one should quarrel with an animal for having more legs or eyes than oneself."
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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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"Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another."
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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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"We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms."
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"I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?"
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"Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about."
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"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."
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"Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction."
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"A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes."
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"The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye."
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"The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception."
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"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day."
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"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
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"The deaf cannot hear wind, but can feel its touch. The blind cannot see the sun, but can feel its warmth."
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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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"The most beautiful road is the road you think it is the most beautiful road!"
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"Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless."
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"The darkness behind my closed eyelids was like the cloud-covered sky, but the gray was somewhat deeper. Every few minutes, someone would come and paint over the gray with a different-textured gray - one with a touch of gold or green or red. I was impressed with the variety of grays that existed. Human beings were so strange. All you had to do was sit still for ten minutes, and you could see this amazing variety of grays."
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"A gloss is a total system of perception and language."
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"To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour."
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"How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception."
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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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"While 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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"Distance does not define your destination, it is defined by your thoughts."
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"To see things (vastu) 'as it is' in its purest form, is called samkit (enlightened view; right belief), and to see it any other way is called mithyatva (wrong belief)."
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"She gave me this look " she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around."
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"Strictly speaking, it might not be a dream. It was reality, but a reality imbued with all the qualities of a dream. A different sphere of reality, where - at a special time and place - imagination had been set free."
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"The more you look, the less you see."
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"No is a false perception. Yes is a positive conception.Go with reality and reason."
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"Changing your perception will alter your interpretations and therefore, your reality. If you feel like you're hitting a wall because you simply don't understand something, or another person has a different approach, keep your mind open and willing to reinterpret it with fresh eyes, more information, a change in position, or a new perspective."
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"Some people aren't really light-teethed, they're merely dark-skinned."
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"Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago."
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