Perception Quotes
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Acting is perception, and as long as I'm honest with myself in my work, someone will appreciate it.
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But that is the thing about miracles: it is perception that determines them as such, not facts.
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Fans have this perception that they can say anything to you because you are a celebrity.
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Beauty as a “greeting”. At the moment one comes into the presence of something beautiful, it greets you. It lifts away from the neutral background as though coming forward to welcome you – as thought the object were designated to “fit” your perception.
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Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
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I'm especially interested in what I call practitioner criticism, which is when people who practice an art form start writing about it on blogs. I think that's an immensely important development. I want to see much, much more of that. People who make music who are verbally articulate. And not all musicians are verbally articulate. But those who are should be encouraged to write about what they do and their perception of what other people do. It makes the discourse smarter.
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What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.
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As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
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Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.
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To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.
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The problem is that perception is reality.
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I like to use light as a material, but my medium is actually perception. I want you to sense yourself sensing - to see yourself seeing.
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Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.
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It's hard not to love Roomba. Roomba had such an amazing impact on the field. When we launched, we asked people, 'Is it a robot?' and got an overwhelming no - 'robots' have arms and legs; they command data. There was a very strong perception that robots had to look like people.
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Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.
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Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.
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There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.
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Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present against the backdrop of the past, within a frame of perception that is so familiar, so safe that is is terrifying to risk changing it even when we know our perceptions are distorted, limited, constricted by that old view.
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You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.
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It's a common perception that science and religion are mutually exclusive. But there are many scientists who would consider themselves to be spiritual people. Not only that, but in the case of climate change - a scientific issue with strong moral implications and difficult decisions to be made - it's essential to connect the science to our values. And for many of us, our values come from our faith.
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Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way I know how to invite this experience is by removing the other things (i.e., subject matter) for you to think about.
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You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else's plan for you.
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Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance.
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Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.
