Perception Quotes
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With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.
Chris Robinson The Black Crowes
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The visionary, industrious, Christian, and segregated black community of the early- to mid-1960s understood and embraced the importance of a positive self-perception. It was this same recognition that drove millions of young patriotic black men throughout our nation's history to be among the first to volunteer when our nation went to war.
Burgess Owens
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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
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Perception is reality.
Lee Atwater
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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
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Hannity-'You seem to be angry with religion, angry with god. Am I wrong in my perception?' Hitchens-'Not with god, obviously,that would be absurd.'
Christopher Hitchens
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The planetary emergency unfolding around us is, first and foremost...a crisis of thought, values, perceptions, ideas and judgments. In other words, it is a crisis of mind, which makes it a crisis of those institutions which purport to improve minds.
David W. Orr
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I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
Al Pacino
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Perception is controlled hallucination.
Andy Clark
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
Don DeLillo
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The entertainment business is such a strange, crazy perception business that you're either given way too much respect, like people saying, "You should be the head of the sitcom!" Or you're given no respect, where they're like, "You should audition to be the garbage man that lives four houses down."
Jim Gaffigan
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To most people in the U.K., indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is - in many respects - a valid one. Superpower rivalry during the Cold War ramped up U.S. and Soviet space efforts to a scale that Western Europe had no motive to match.
Martin Rees
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I can't comment on any outside perception. I'm happy to come out and talk about movies that I've worked on in a setting like this. Otherwise, I have my own life that I live which is very different and private.
Jennifer Connelly
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No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.
Karen Marie Moning
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Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.
Edwin S. Shneidman
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All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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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
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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
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As the perception of the United States as a welcoming place for all changes among travelers globally, the country's tourism market, which is a huge revenue generator for the economy, could get hurt.
Dara Khosrowshahi
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The unlived life is not worth examining.
Thomas Mitchell Morris
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I grew up in front of the camera from an early age. It distorts your perception of who you are. Having a lot of attention at a young age is not healthy.
Amanda de Cadenet
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When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and your instincts are in play, so you make much quicker and more intelligent choices.
Martha Beck
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A miracle is a shift in perception. The moment that we choose to perceive our life with love, we can create miraculous change.
Gabrielle Bernstein
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Most people think of leaders as being these outgoing, very visible, and charismatic people, which I find to be a very narrow perception. The key challenge for managers today is to get beyond the surface of your colleagues. You might just find that you have introverts embedded within your organization who are natural-born leaders.
Douglas Conant