Perception Quotes
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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 -
People expect me to be stupid. I'm not saying I'm Stephen Fry, but it is amazing the perception people have.
Jamie Dornan
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The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
Jim Bunning -
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 -
Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.
Douglas Coupland -
When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There was a perception that women weren't important. And it's true. Women were seen historically as far inferior to men.
Alison Weir -
Disaster, to me, means in some big or small way, things going wrong. And that's obviously a matter of perception, right? Let's say your puppy chewed up all the shoes in your house. She probably had a fine time doing that. In her mind, a red letter day, the highlight of her puppy life.
Amy Gerstler -
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
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The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.
Marianne Williamson -
Environments are invisible. Their groundrules, pervasive structure, and overall patterns elude easy perception.
Marshall McLuhan -
I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
Al Pacino -
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 -
With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.
Chris Robinson The Black Crowes -
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
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Some would suggest that there has been a dramatic change in our perception of the world and ourselves within the world. Others have observed that there has been an almost complete about-face in a relatively short span of time.
Alex Campbell -
Ballet is a healthy world despite what people might think. There's a perception that ballet dancers are skinny and unhealthy, but that's rubbish. You have to be strong, so eating regularly and healthily is essential.
Darcey Bussell -
In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
Chuck Close -
I want to get into some television. There might be a perception about me being only a movie actor, you know, and there's this whole new sort of frontier opening up in that medium.
Mark Ruffalo -
Science is nothing but perception.
Plato -
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
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All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
It's very difficult to change the perception people have of you.
Kristin Cavallari -
Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.
David Abram -
If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.
Umberto Eco