Perceive Quotes

• First and foremost, I'm a running back. That's how I perceive myself.

  

  Reggie Bush
  • Running
  • Perceive

• Where I think that 3D will fall apart is going to be as audiences now get treated to incredibly artistic utilizations of space. I think the films that are just sort of done as 3D transfer type films, the audience will perceive the difference in that.

  

  Christopher Meledandri
  • Film
  • Audience
  • Differences

• In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.

  

  William Lloyd Garrison
  • Truth
  • Divine
  • Embrace

• I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.

  

  Paul Banks Interpol
  • Quality
  • Feels
  • Strange

• The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Body
  • Behinds
  • Burden

• A part of the plan for creating discord, is, I perceive, to make me say things of others, and others of me, wch. have no foundation in truth. The first, in many instances I know to be the case; and the second I believe to be so; but truth or falsehood is immaterial to them, provided their objects are promoted.

  

  George Washington
  • Believe
  • Creating
  • Cases

• Man is aware; he perceives and interprets the world around him. When he uses logic as a tool for interpretation, it becomes science; when he uses feelings for interpretation, it becomes poetry; when he takes a longer view of his observations, it becomes wisdom.

  

  Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal
  • World
  • Men
  • Wisdom

• You are the owner of all that you perceive. But you can't perceive apart from your vibration. Feel your way, little-by-little, into a greater sense of abundance by looking for the treasures that the Universe is offering you on a day-to-day basis.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Universe
  • Feels
  • Perception

• In a time where the world is becoming personalized, when the mobile phone, the burger, everything has its own personal identity, how should we perceive ourselves and how should we perceive others?

  

  Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani
  • World
  • Should
  • Identity

• You may reason that we have [brains] to perceive the world or to think, and that's completely wrong.

  

  Daniel Wolpert
  • Thinking
  • Reason
  • Brain

• Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus plays a central role in defining our everyday realities.

  

  George Lakoff
  • Reality
  • Everyday
  • Structure

• Prejudices emerge from the disposition of the human mind to perceive and process information in categories. “Categories” is a nicer, more neutral word than “stereotypes,” but it’s the same thing. Cognitive psychologists consider stereotypes to be energy-saving devices that allow us to make efficient decisions on the basis of past experience; help us quickly process new information and retrieve memories; make sense of real differences between groups; and predict, often with considerable accuracy, how others will behave or how they think. We wisely rely on stereotypes and the quick information they give us to avoid danger, approach possible new friends, choose one school or job over another, or decide that that person across this crowded room will be the love of our lives.

  

  Carol Tavris
  • Information
  • Prejudices
  • Stereotypes

• Reality is what one does not perceive when one perceives it.

  

  Niklas Luhmann
  • Reality
  • One
  • Perceive

• The more we can address an issue the moment we perceive it, the calmer and more present we are, and the easier it is for others to follow our lead.

  

  Christine Comaford
  • Present
  • Issue
  • Address

• It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

  

  Sofia Kovalevskaya
  • Science
  • Perception
  • Poet

• Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Energy
  • Nuclear
  • Greenhouses

• I got fascinated by the idea that our universe itself is comprised mostly of dark matter and dark energy. Things that we can't perceive at all, and we've only discovered that relatively recently. So it's almost as if our universe is the foam on the ocean of things that we can't see, or know, or perceive, and yet we feel the affects of those things right and left.

  

  Scott Snyder
  • Energy
  • Universe
  • Dark

• My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • God
  • Desire
  • Perceive

• That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Moral
  • Republican
  • Laughable

• Why is our own participation in scapegoating so difficult to perceive and the participation of others so easy? To us, our fears and prejudices never appear as such because they determine our vision of people we despise, we fear, and against whom we discriminate.

  

  Rene Girard
  • Easy
  • Determine
  • Fears

• Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • World
  • Women
  • Conservatism

• If people perceive themselves as having very little opportunities to be fulfilled, then it cheapens their life and outlook. The solution is to reverse it; make sure they know opportunities abound.

  

  Michael Lee-Chin
  • Opportunity
  • Reverse
  • Fulfilled

• It has nothing to do with any kind of exchange or sale [of Kuril island to Japan]. It is about the search for a solution when neither party would be at a disadvantage, when neither party would perceive itself as conquered or defeated.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Party
  • Kind
  • Defeated

• We are different because our brain is wired differently. This causes us to perceive the world in different ways and have different values and priorities. Not better or worse - different.

  

  Allan Pease
  • World
  • Different
  • Perceive

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