Perception Quotes

• If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Care
  • Fool
  • Humor

• I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer.

  

  Andrea Martin
  • Character
  • History
  • Help

• Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Writing
  • Paint
  • Timeless

• 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.

  

  Charlie Hunnam
  • Career
  • Path
  • Suicide

• The problem a lot of writers have is that they really, really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be dictated by reader response. But if you're going to let other people make you feel good, you're going to end up feeling bad when they say the opposite. You've got to be a cultural stoic. Then you won't be devastated by people who respond negatively. Of course, the downside is that it sort of stops you from being able to enjoy people liking your work.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana
  • Perception
  • Kurt Cobain
  • Baloney

• Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.

  

  David Abram
  • Ecosystem
  • Sensory
  • Encompassing

• People expect me to be stupid. I'm not saying I'm Stephen Fry, but it is amazing the perception people have.

  

  Jamie Dornan
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Stupid

• My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.

  

  S. R. Nathan
  • Country
  • Perception
  • Two

• I recognize that no matter how old I get, how many records I've done, or what the public perception of me is, there are still exciting things that I haven't done.

  

  John Baizley Baroness
  • Done
  • Matter
  • Exciting

• I shoot just one moment at a time... These moments are beneath the threshold of perception.

  

  Lois Greenfield
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Perception

• One must have a thorough knowledge of anatomy and a good perception of depth for silhouette work. Otherwise they resemble those childish picture cards, snipped out by some fool who doesn't know what he is trying to do.

  

  Ugo Mochi
  • Good
  • Work
  • Trying

• 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

• It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.

  

  Clement Freud
  • People
  • Family
  • Past

• It seems like everybody's perception of me is very bipolar. To one group, it's overpaid, overrated; to another group, it's underpaid, underrated, underdog. It's funny to me because there's no real balance.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • Real
  • Funny
  • Balance

• All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

  

  Chuck Close
  • Art
  • Perception

• The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.

  

  Johannes P. Muller
  • Different
  • Perception

• What has become clear to me is that it is not the inherent nature of being gay that causes such a reduced life; it is, rather, the social circumstances around being gay: the perceptions of it and the cultural norms that it is said to violate. As some of those norms have changed, I have been able to be gay, to have a marriage, to have a family, and to have - if there is wood to knock on - a fortunate and happy life.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Life
  • Family
  • Happy

• Environments are invisible. Their groundrules, pervasive structure, and overall patterns elude easy perception.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Perception

• The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

  

  Jim Bunning
  • Baseball
  • Perception

• There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime: the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, 'What are you doing here?'

  

  James Comey
  • Morning
  • Car
  • Police

• I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • Perception

• The thing that has always baffled me about people's perception of my writing is the sense that I'm a very controversial, opinionated, polarizing person. I feel like I write about things that I'm interested in, and I describe why they're interesting to me. I could be negative, I guess. It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

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