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Perception Quotes
"For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are."
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"I know everything I need to about a person by their hands. Eyes may be the window to ones soul but hands disclose the being."
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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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"What you feel is making sense could really be dramatized nonsense. So think again."
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"To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind."
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"You must learn to ignore what people say, Sebastian murmured, coming to her. Standing behind her, he rested his fingers lightly on her shoulders, causing her to start a little. "You'll be much happier that way. Suddenly his voice was tipped with amusement. "I've learned that while gossip about others is often true, it's never true when it is about oneself."
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"We lack trust in the present, this moment, this actual seeing, because our culture tells us to trust only the reported back, the publicly framed, the edited, the thing set in the clearly artistic or the clearly scientific angle of perspective. One of the deepest lessons we have to learn is that nature, of its nature, resists this. It waits to be seen otherwise, in its individual presentness and from our individual presentness."
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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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"She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for."
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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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"He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking."
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"So many sounds do come close to our ears each moment. What we allow into our mind and how we interpret what we listen to is what propels our thought and actions."
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"But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see."
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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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"Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl."
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"You perception of a person, place, or thing may not be accurate. Just because it looks good does not mean it is good and vice versa. Always be aware of your surroundings. Pay attention to the people, places, and things around you. Don't allow your misperception to put you in an uncomfortable situation."
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"To see anything other than 'as it is' - that is called the world."
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"The earliest bird gets the worm only if the worm is stupid enough to show up."
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"Then as for those who gaze upon many beautiful things but don't see the beautiful itself, and aren't even capable of following someone else who leads them to it, and upon many just things but not the just itself, and all the things like that, we'll claim that they accept the seeming of everything but discern nothing of what they have opinions about."
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"Every body has their taste in noises as well as other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity."
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"To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended directly and unconditionally by Mind at Large-- this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual."
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"He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star."
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"... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not having yet become accustomed to the dark or whether it has come from greater ignorance into greater light and is dazzled by the increased brillance."
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"What you see and what you focus on has a profound impact on your behaviour."
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"Its like reproaching someone who has no ear for music because he's bored at a symphony concert. Is it fair to blame me because you ascribed to me qualities that I hadn't got? I never tried to deceive you by pretending I was anything I wasn't. I was just pretty and gay. You don't ask for a pearl necklace or a sable coat at a booth in a fair, you ask for a tin trumpet and a toy balloon."
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"The way you separate Reality from Imagination is the number of bandages you have to use."
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"Much smoke has been seen, and caused great fear of fire - even when no fire ensued."
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"Until you see beauty everywhere, in every face, until then, you are blind."
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"Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure."
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"I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things."
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"Your perception is your habitual perspective. The way you consciously choose to see life on a regular basis. The moment that you are aware of your perspective and detach to see things from a different point of view (Even SLIGHTLY) is the moment that your entire complexity from within you changes."
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"I know it's not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!"My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow"Is that so? Well, miss, you are glowing like a pig!"
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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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"It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words."
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"Beautiful gifts sometimes come adorned in ugly wrapping."
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"Distance does not define your destination, it is defined by your thoughts."
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"This [worldly suffering] is indeed the result of a flawed-vision. When this flawed-vision goes away, the world will be seen "As it is. By sitting with the 'Experienced Person' whose flawed-vision is gone, our flawed-vision will go away. Nothing else will make it go away."
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"I tell you as well as myself: what we see with our own eyes is nothing other than a cloud concealing what we should perceive with our inner sight, while what we listen to with our ears is merely a ringing sound disturbing what we should understand with our hearts. When we see a man being taken to prion by a police officer let us not hasten to assume he is a wrong-doer. When we see a corpse, and a man standing beside it with bloodstained hands, let us not conclude that this is a victim and his assassin. When we hear one man singing and another lamenting, let us ascertain which one of the two is truly happy."
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"Close your eyes. Now see the world with your mind, and feel the joy of your magnificent life."
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"What is reality today was but a dream and an imagination not that long ago."
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"Close your eyes to see the world with your imaginative mind."
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"Each one sees what he carries in his heart."
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"It is always easier to find fault and criticize than it is to find beauty and appreciation."
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"Reality depends a great deal upon one believing what he sees-or seeing what he believes. Either way."
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"Isn't it always the things that you can't see that hurt you?"
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"A blind man sees with his cane, like all the rest of us."
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