Perception Quotes

• Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.

  

  Will Wright
  • People
  • Different
  • House

• Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Enough
  • Lying
  • Boredom

• Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Perception
  • Consciousness
  • Own Mind

• Perception is controlled hallucination.

  

  Andy Clark
  • Perception
  • Controlled
  • Hallucination

• I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.

  

  Kevin Garnett
  • People
  • Giving
  • Shoes

• 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
  • Up
  • Age
  • Attention

• 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
  • Work
  • Literature
  • Perception

• It's a mind going over things, revisiting things, maybe trying to refine the original perception. You have to keep going a thing over in order to make sense off it.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Perception

• Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.

  

  Bill Cowher
  • Reality
  • Difference
  • Perception

• 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
  • Brain
  • Choices
  • Intelligent

• I don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a line funny just by, I don't know, some extra-sense perception. I only know character and emotion and real acting; that's all I know how to do.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • Real
  • Character
  • Funny

• The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.

  

  Kevin Eubanks
  • People
  • Perception

• If you’re an incredibly famous rich person who does more in one day than I do in a month, does your perception of time’s passing go slower or faster than it does for me?

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Time
  • Famous
  • Perception

• Human perception is literally incarnation.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Perception

• I think that a good deal of poetry and art gives us some sense of access to another's voice, perception, texture of thought, imagination. Sometimes it gives us better access to the strangeness in ourselves.

  

  Mary Szybist
  • Good
  • Art
  • Imagination

• 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

• I think that people have a very strict perception of what a pop artist is.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • People
  • Perception

• 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
  • People
  • Today
  • Challenge

• Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Humans
  • Consciousness
  • Illness

• Perhaps, despite my objections, the success of films like: 'The Help,' 'Django,' 'The Butler,' or '12 Years a Slave,' will further persuade Hollywood to widen its view and edit its erroneous perception of what a commercial black film can look like.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Help
  • Success
  • Black

• To a synthetic chemist, the complex molecules of nature are as beautiful as any of her other creations. The perception of that beauty depends on the understanding of chemical structures and their transformations, and, as with a treasured work of art, deepens as the subject is studied, perhaps even to a level approaching romance.

  

  Elias James Corey
  • Work
  • Art
  • Nature

• I think there is sort of a general universal perception of me, or someone who looks like me, as someone who is kind of menacing, dark or mysterious.

  

  Steven Bauer
  • Perception
  • Mysterious
  • Menacing

• I've worked my entire career to try to broaden the perception of the WWE. A lot of folks think because we're so entertaining and oftentimes have such wild and well-defined characters that it's all we are. It has kind of been my life's work to tell the public that's not true.

  

  John Cena
  • Life
  • Work
  • True

• The problem is that perception is reality.

  

  John Rowland
  • Reality
  • Perception

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