Perception Quotes

• I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Time
  • Character
  • Fame

• Perception creates behavior. Perception encourages behavior. And because this institution-this artifice-continues to socially reinforce patterns of perception and behavior, if this behavior is destructive, it may not be a bad idea to eliminate or curtail the institution.

  

  Derrick Jensen
  • May
  • Bad
  • Perception

• In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

  

  John le Carre
  • Why
  • War
  • Reality

• Natural thunder heralds the wetness of fresh water high clouds to quench the thirst of fields gone dry and parched, a messenger of blessed rain, but this was as dry as hell must be. My distraught perception refused to believe it, because of the insane suddenness with which it sounded, swelled and hit, and how casually it came to murder my child.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Believe
  • High
  • Water

• Comprehension follows perception.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Perception

• Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • Powerful
  • Perception

• The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.

  

  David Selby
  • People
  • Perception

• Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they're all a projection of you.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Brain
  • Thoughts
  • Perception

• The biggest thing I've learned is that it's not about me. All of the things that I do have to be about bringing service to the world and helping people shift their perception.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • People
  • World
  • Service

• I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.

  

  Colin Hay Men at Work
  • People
  • Perception

• We're seeing it the same way, we're hearing the same way, we have the same conception of the situation. And so, for all purposes, we are operating with a very similar perception.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Way
  • Situation
  • Conception

• When you look at the state of the economy right now, you have to set a priority. And my top priority is the deficit of jobs and economic growth, and especially this perception that the United States could be falling behind especially Asian economies.

  

  Mark Kirk
  • Growth
  • Perception
  • Priority

• Growth is a detox process, as our weakest, darkest places are sucked up to the surface in order to be released...often, it is not a change in partners but rather a change in perception that delivers us to the love we seek.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • Growth
  • Process

• The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Perception
  • Talk

• I'm only interested in working on records that legitimately reflect the band's own perception of their music and existence. If you commit yourselves to that as a tenet of the recording methodology, then I will bust my ass for you.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Existence
  • Ass
  • Commit

• 'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Reality

• We used to do sock puppet shows for my auntie back in the day. Me and my friends would do accents of Englishmen, and we would sip tea and act like we were rich in front of the family, and they thought it was just hilarious, the level of perception that we had about things that we'd never experienced.

  

  Keith Stanfield
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Tea

• I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about concealing. I like flawed characters that people relate to. I would never do a romcom.

  

  Emraan Hashmi
  • People
  • Different
  • Drama

• Media, by altering the environment, evoke in us unique ratios of sense perception...When these ratios change, men change.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Men
  • Environment
  • Unique

• I think perception is important.

  

  Jeff Gordon
  • Important
  • Perception

• If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.

  

  Anita Borg
  • Women
  • Perception

• I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Different
  • Society

• The phrase 'perception is reality' is overused generally. But perception can be reality in monetary policy. The bond market doesn't act merely on what it sees. It acts on what it expects of the Fed or the government.

  

  Amity Shlaes
  • Reality
  • Perception

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