Perception Quotes

• The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children's adaptive capacity.

  

  David Elkind
  • Children
  • Together
  • Taken

• I'm very aware of my image and the perception of me.

  

  Jon Jones
  • Perception

• The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.

  

  David Hanson
  • Up
  • Identity
  • Perception

• Art is that imaginative expression of human energy, which, through technical concretion of feeling and perception, tends to reconcile the individual with the universal, by exciting in him impersonal emotion. And the greatest Art is that which excites the greatest impersonal emotion in an hypothecated perfect human being.

  

  John Galsworthy
  • Art
  • Feeling
  • Energy

• Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
  • Song
  • Stage
  • Careers

• Everyone who means well gives advice based on his or her perception. I have realized that while it's important to hear the suggestions, one should only listen to oneself.

  

  Emraan Hashmi
  • Important
  • Advice
  • Perception

• When things begin to go bad, the perception of people makes it worse.

  

  James Mirrlees
  • People
  • Bad
  • Perception

• Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Giving

• Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism. … Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into categories … human perception is by nature a dualistic phenomenon—which makes the quest for enlightenment an uphill struggle, to say the least.

  

  Douglas Hofstadter
  • World
  • Nature
  • Struggle

• The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden chord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors.

  

  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  • Perception
  • Dancing
  • Deeds

• People are put off by the perception of science fiction, and it doesn't help if you've got references to quantum this and quantum that on the first page, and people think, 'This isn't for me,' and chuck it. I'm probably a pretty bad offender, given how far in the future some of my stuff is.

  

  Peter F. Hamilton
  • People
  • Bad
  • Help

• It's very difficult to change the perception people have of you.

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • People
  • Perception

• Perception is reality. Media is omnipresent. Therefore, he who controls the media controls perception, and therefore controls reality TV, and therefore controls reality.

  

  Cintra Wilson
  • Reality
  • Media
  • Controls

• I want to bring magic back to where it started, which is not about the props, and it's not about me as a magician: it's about the audience and playing with their minds and playing with their perception of magic and having fun with it.

  

  Keith Barry
  • Fun
  • Magic
  • Perception

• You can't compare the effect of multimedia-tasking and the effect of playing action games. They have totally different effects on different aspects of cognition, perception and attention.

  

  Daphne Bavelier
  • Different
  • Action
  • Attention

• I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.

  

  Fred Frith Aksak Maboul
  • Friends
  • Period
  • Perception

• The encompassing, creative mind recognizes no boundaries. The mind has ever brought new spheres under its control. All our experiences culminate in the perception of the universe as a whole, with man as its center.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Universe

• Scientists are supposed to study animals in a totally objective fashion, similar to the way we inspect a rock or measure the circumference of a tree trunk. Emotions are not to interfere with the assessment. The animal-rights movement capitalizes on this perception, depicting scientists as devoid of compassion.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • Fashion
  • Rock
  • Study

• We perceive through our senses a person, a situation or an event, and in an instant, we project our mental models - our fears, background and experiences - onto that perception. This often results in cognitive errors, which means we judge and respond incorrectly.

  

  Elizabeth Thornton
  • Judge
  • Perception

• The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

  

  James J. Gibson
  • Perception

• Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • True
  • Moments
  • Religious

• The fluctuations of certainty, the change Of degrees of perception in the scholar’s dark.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Dark
  • Perception

• What I had to learn was, that I'm only responsible for my perception of things. The world's not out to get you. That's not the way it works.

  

  Chris Robinson The Black Crowes
  • World
  • Perception

• Objectivity may also be defined as freedom: the objective individual is bound by no commitments which could prejudice his perception, understanding, and evaluation of the given.

  

  Georg Simmel
  • May
  • Freedom
  • Understanding

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