Best 1811 quotes in «perception quotes» category

On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.

Our perception of yesterday is the foundation for our expectations of tomorrow.

Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.

Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.

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.

Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.

Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our sight is impeded by intervening bodies and shadows. To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions. We must transmit our intelligence, travel, transport the materials and transfer the energies necessary for our existence.

Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings of our sensory receptors in the light of previous triggering of our sensory receptors.

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.

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.

Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.

Our world exists onlythrough our perception of it. Change our perception of our world and we change the world -- for us.

Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

Painted time is a different zone. This is why I don't believe that a painting - although I've been accused of it many times now - can be truly topical. A painting's physicality gives it a different persistence and a different perception.

People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.

People tell me I'm a comedian, but I don't approach acting from that perspective. I do know that everything in life has to do with your timing and perception. You have to be comfortable with the rhythm that you're in. You can't just jump into a fast rhythm if yours is slow. You might have to pick up the pace but in your own particular way. It has to do with personality, too.

People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.

People wouldn't go on Facebook unless they wanted to share with groups of people. But there is this perception that you have been on a course to push people's information where it's visible across the Internet unless they do a bunch of stuff.

People have a perception of me because of Victoria's Secret that I'm sexy, but I'm not a sexy girl. I'm very tomboyish.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

People must be aware of their problems in a realistic way. They must be able to analyse their problems and to work out common solutions. In other words a community is easily divided when their perception of the same thing is different

Perception can be changed

Perception is a tool that's pointed on both ends.

Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation.

Perception is made up of bands.

Perception is everything and that becomes the reality. It's a big problem for Hillary Clinton.

Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

Perception is a wave. You change as your perception of something changes because you define yourself as a reflection of whatever you happen to perceive.

Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.

Perception determines insanity.

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

Perception is naturally surpassed toward action; better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is revealed as an "always future hollow", for we are always future to ourselves.

Perception is NOT reality. People have always said that - perception is reality. I reject that hypothesis.

Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.

Perception is, in essence, who we are. We are what we perceive. What we perceive defines who we are.

Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made between who we are and what we perceive.

Perception of ideas, rather than the storing of them, should be the aim of education.

Perspective should be learned - and then forgotten. The residue - a sensitivity to perspective - helps perception, varying with each individual and determined by his responsive needs.

Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet.

Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need to.

Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions. Philosophy is about the caustic or cauterizing effect of the truth, not the currying of sensibilities.