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Perception Quotes
"The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing."
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"While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him."
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"The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition."
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"People say not to judge a book by its cover, but what if you somehow read the inside of the book without seeing the cover first? And what if you really liked what was inside the book? Of course when you go to close the book and are about to see the cover for the first time, you hope it's something you'll find attractive. Because who wants an incredibly written book sitting on their bookshelf if they have to stare at a shitty cover?"
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"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing."
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"If I were a blind man and were told by you that you possess a faculty called sight, I should be unreasonable if I railed at you as a conceited enthusiast."
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"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."
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"I recollect it was settled by general consent that India was quite a misrepresented country, and had nothing objectionable in it, but a tiger or two, and a little heat in the warm part of the day."
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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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"You may not like what I see but I don't like what you do."
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"Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye."
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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 a queer business, making oneself blind."
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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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"The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either."
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"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."
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"Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites."
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"I often see through things right to the apparition itself."
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"Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic."
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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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"A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes."
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"He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it."
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"Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that."
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"Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic."
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"Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route."
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"The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye."
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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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"Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception."
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"There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt."
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"Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy."
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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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"Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone."
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"Q: What is wrong with the world?A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves."
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"You believe what your eyes want to believe!"
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"Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say "This silk is fake! I thought it was soft, I thought it was delicate, but look, I cannot even tear it" ? Surely, this man is not in his right mind! The silk is not fake! This silk is 100% real. It's the man who is stupid!"
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"I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold."
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"When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it."
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"I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out at the world and its secret places, poetry lost in time and words left hanging in space...sentences that are perfectly understood, even when left unspoken. Feelings that simultaneously exalt and suffocate."
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"A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception."
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"The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?"
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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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"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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"But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility."
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"Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction."
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"So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality."
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"People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time."
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