Best 1811 quotes in «perception quotes» category

Never accept other people's limited perceptions of you. Define yourself. You can do anything.

Nobody is expecting us to do anything. We can't let that perception become our reality, because with the ability on this team, if everybody can pick it up a notch, we'll be fine. It's not going to be Brooks coming in saving the day, or myself. It's got to be everybody as a unit playing consistent. If it happens, it's going to be great. It will be something like I've never experienced.

No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.

No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.

Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

Obviously, my perception of the world is one where humans are a threat to our survival.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

Nudity doesn't scare me at all; the only thing about it is the perception by the audience.

No waving of enchanted wands but heightened perception. No magic objects, but a transformed and enhanced reality. No spells or chants, but the raw power of the human will to enact supernatural change upon the universal fabric. This is the kind of "magic" that fills Lords of Rainbow - elemental, organic, humanistic - an extension of reality.

Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you.

Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.

Oh, that," said the king with a shrug. "That isn't your honor, Costis. That's the public perception of your honor. It has nothing to do with anything important, except perhaps for manipulating fools who mistake honor for its bright, shiny trappings. You can always change the perceptions of fools.

Once you have access to the source of creation within you, your health and wellbeing will naturally be taken care of.

Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.

One must have a thorough knowledge of anatomy and a good perception of depth for silhouette work. Otherwise they resemble those childish picture cards, snipped out by some fool who doesn't know what he is trying to do.

One of the best ways of becoming an effective parent—or, for that matter, an effective human being—is to understand the perceptions of other people, to be able to “get into their world.

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

One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.

Only in unawareness you are mortal. In awareness you are immortal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

Perception can be changed

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.

Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation.

Perception is made up of bands.

Perception determines insanity.

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.