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Perception Quotes
"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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"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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"Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age."
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"Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment."
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"The Truth must dazzle gradually. Or every man be blind."
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"The illusion of choice is the greatest magic trick ever performed."
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"You believe what your eyes want to believe!"
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"An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft."
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"Moderation sees itself as beautiful, it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking."
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"I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks."
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"Miracles' rely on their observer's ignorance. 'Perfection' relies on the observer's failure to notice the observed's defects."
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"You would say you don't see it: at least I flatter myself I read as much in your eye (beware, by-the-by, what you express with that organ, I am quick at interpreting its language)."
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"What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?"
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"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!"
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"It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not."
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"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing."
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"He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything?"
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"It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid."
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"She knew it wasn't real. She knew the holograph wouldn't hurt. But she also knew that fire was dangerous, and illusions were dangerous, and being tricked into believing things that weren't real was often the most dangerous thing of all."
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"To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself."
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"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."
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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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"When one says, I won't judge you for that, what they're really saying is, I am judging you for that. Think about it. If you walk into my house and I tell you, "I won't judge you for wearing those pants," what am I really saying?"
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"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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"If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me."
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"It's as if they actually think that what other people think of them somehow doesn't matter. I mean, I know we're all supposed to believe that, but obviously, none of us actually do. And nor should we, because it does! It does matter! And the people who genuinely believe it doesn't tend to be the very people who ought to care most what other people think of them, because what the other people are thinking is, 'No, actually, I don't think the Chinese are "up to something,"' or, 'You should use mouthwash,' or, 'Your mania for the collective socialization of agriculture will surely cause the deaths of millions,' or, 'Forty cats is too many cats."
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"No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye."
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"Our understanding is correlative to our perception."
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"We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world."
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"What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency."
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"I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa."
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"I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose."
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"There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several."
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"We were just standing there, and her eyes were so interesting. Not in the usual way of being interesting, like being extremely blue or extremely big or flanked by obscenely long lashes or anything."
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"The world is best viewed through the lens of your heart."
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"You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject."
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"The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were:Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.'My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said.My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent."
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"It's a queer business, making oneself blind."
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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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"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution."
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"It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide."
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"A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses."
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"Staring at the light of another blinds the view of our own."
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"Disappointment focuses on 'what is not,' and completely misses the far greater reality of 'what now is."
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"We do not actually know other people, we only know our judgements."
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