Perception Quotes

• When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.

  

  Andrzej Wajda
  • World
  • Words
  • Understanding

• 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.

  

  Lily Collins
  • May
  • Famous
  • Perception

• The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be satisfied with what we have.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Happy
  • Feeling
  • Perception

• Beauty has always been an ​element of discussion for black women, whether or not we were the ones having the conversation​. Out of necessity, black women have always had to consider others' perceptions of a certain beauty ideal, just starting with the skin color.

  

  Mickalene Thomas
  • Women
  • Perception
  • Discussion

• I am in a mixed race marriage myself, and I have a mixed race son....The racial perception interest is probably always going to be there to some extent.

  

  Celeste Ng
  • Son
  • Interest
  • Perception

• Fans have this perception that they can say anything to you because you are a celebrity.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Celebrity
  • Perception

• People have this perception of soul music of somebody shouting.

  

  Leon Bridges
  • People
  • Music
  • Soul

• The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become.

  

  Dan Payne
  • Changed
  • Manifestation
  • Professors

• If on one day we find the fast-spreading recognition of popular rights accompanied by a silent, growing perception of the rights of women, we also find it accompanied by a tendency towards a system of non-coercive education--that is, towards a practical illustration of the rights of children.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Children
  • Growing
  • Silent

• The reason we can't attain the highest level of knowledge while incarnate is that we can't then wholly escape the influence of the body (and so of perception and of certain desires that take us away from thinking properly); and that prevents us from understanding fully what forms are, which one must do in order to have the highest level of knowledge.

  

  Gail Fine
  • Desire
  • Reason
  • Understanding

• Is the Conservative Party still the Nasty Party? I said it was perceived as the Nasty Party. And is it? I don't think that it's a phrase that people today would apply to the Party. I think that the perception of the Party has changed.

  

  Theresa May
  • Perception
  • Changed
  • Conservative Party

• As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • True
  • Science
  • Perception

• Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is confined, and they have in fact little perception, except of their own particular kind of excellence.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Genius
  • Excellence

• If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to be amiss, it is difficult to change that perception.

  

  Aleatha Romig
  • Reality
  • Difficult
  • Perceive

• Sometimes, very quietly and graciously, you can inspire other people by showing them that there's a different way and many perceptions of beauty. You may not be feeling it inside, but if you display it like you mean it, then it can give permission to be kind to ourselves and embrace our individuality.

  

  Erin O'Connor
  • People
  • Different
  • Individuality

• To see an older woman play a little boy on stage completely blasted open my perception to what it meant to act. That was it for me.

  

  Andrea Suarez Paz
  • Boy
  • Perception
  • Act

• Promotion and perception are synonymous twins of art marketing.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Perception
  • Twins
  • Promotion

• Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.

  

  Nikolai Berdyaev
  • Philosophy
  • Existence
  • Perception

• The ability to know that your perceptions are accurate has to happen without others' validation. Intuition is not the result of diet, rituals, or wind chimes. It's the natural consequence of having self-esteem, the greatest power you can have. With self-esteem, your life can broaden into an adventure because you can know in your gut that you can handle the unknown. And you can handle helping others without fear, which is true liberation.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Ability
  • Adventure
  • Natural

• The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Art
  • Perception
  • Neglected

• Any new technology is an evolutionary and biological mutation opening doors of perception and new spheres of action to mankind. (p. 67)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Action
  • Technology
  • Perception

• The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Perception

• It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call something there, more deep and more general than any of the special and particular senses by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.

  

  William James
  • Reality
  • Feelings
  • Psychology

• The shortcoming of purely political discourse between Christians and Jews arises from the fact that it is largely built upon the perception of a common enemy.

  

  David Novak
  • Political
  • Enemy
  • Perception

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