Quotes about Perceptions

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential. Votes: 3

Perceptions of impossibility are commonly disspelled by unmitigated courage and perseverance. Votes: 3

Perceptions change with time and you can't rush it, in my judgment. Votes: 3

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed Votes: 3

The key to changing our past, present, and future is to create our piece of the PIE (our Perceptions, Interpretations, & Expectations) on purpose. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. Votes: 1

Anything that opens up people's perceptions a bit is good. Votes: 1

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us. Votes: 1

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. Votes: 1

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe. Votes: 1

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience. Votes: 1

The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays. Votes: 1

Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up. Votes: 1

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy. Votes: 1

The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions. Votes: 1

Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future. Votes: 1

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. Votes: 1

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem. Votes: 1

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make. Votes: 1

Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world. Votes: 1

I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image. Votes: 1

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself. Votes: 1

Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay. Votes: 1

The worst thing you can do is try to manipulate or control perceptions. It's impossible, and when you are found out the result is disastrous. Better to be transparent and play well with others so that when bad things happen you have a reservoir of good will to bank on. Votes: 1

Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment. Votes: 1

The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,' or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way you look at things - your perceptions, mental attitudes, and beliefs. It includes the way you interpret things - what you say. about something or someone to yourself. Votes: 1

When I go to business meetings, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The mail room is downstairs,' to believe that racial perceptions don't still exist. But I figure there are always going to be knuckleheads no matter how many of their herd get stuck in the tar pits of progress. Votes: 1

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. Votes: 1

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind. Votes: 1

Life's all about perceptions. Votes: 0

Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions. Votes: 0

Expectations are the engines of our perceptions. Votes: 0

Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings. Votes: 0

I communicate my innermost perceptions through art. Votes: 0

Question Your Paradigms, your perceptions of reality. Votes: 0

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players. Votes: 0

People's realities are the result of their perceptions. Votes: 0

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. Votes: 0

Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions. Votes: 0

All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions. Votes: 0

We can control our lives by controling our perceptions. Votes: 0

Is this World a reality or just a Human perceptions? Votes: 0

If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it. Votes: 0

People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works. Votes: 0

The opinions of others are their perceptions. Define your life! Votes: 0

You can reverse your biological age by changing your perceptions. Votes: 0

Your beliefs and perceptions determine the boudaries of your world. Votes: 0

Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality Votes: 0

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions. Votes: 0

You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different. Votes: 0

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world. Votes: 0

It's just that different emotions and perceptions demand different frequencies and intensities. Votes: 0

Don't expect people to change until you change your perceptions about people. Votes: 0

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them. Votes: 0

The energy you bring, positive or negative, dictates your perceptions, receptions and radiations. Votes: 0

There's definitely a huge gap between the elite and public perceptions on immigration. Votes: 0

The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is their perceptions of reality. Votes: 0

Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own. Votes: 0

The energy you bring, positive or negative, dictates your perceptions, receptions and radiations." Votes: 0

Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe. Votes: 0

Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past Votes: 0

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world. Votes: 0

Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past. Votes: 0

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer. Votes: 0

When we become fixed in our perceptions we lose our ability to fly. Votes: 0

Things are recalibrated according to new perspectives and perceptions. It's fascinating to me. Votes: 0

As other perceptions arise...the total vision of human possibilities enlarges and is transformed. Votes: 0

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis. Votes: 0

Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered ... Votes: 0

A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying. Votes: 0

Never accept other people's limited perceptions of you. Define yourself. You can do anything. Votes: 0

To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions. Votes: 0

Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them. Votes: 0

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman. Votes: 0

What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything. Votes: 0

Its important not to focus so much on the statistics, but [on people's] perceptions. Votes: 0

What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual. Votes: 0

I am very aware of the impact that television has on people, in changing perceptions. Votes: 0

Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity. Votes: 0

Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation. Votes: 0

In our external world we create and attract with our beliefs, thoughts, emotions and perceptions. Votes: 0

Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived. Votes: 0

It's impossible to just localize your perceptions - because the stimuli come from both eyes. Votes: 0

People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork. Votes: 0

Whether it is moral or immoral, virtuous or malevolent, could mostly be captured to our perceptions. Votes: 0

Style isn't something added on; it's intrinsic to the perceptions and the way you see life. Votes: 0

There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world. Votes: 0

Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts. Votes: 0

When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. Votes: 0

I sort of challenge people's perceptions of what a gay man is, which is kinda good. Votes: 0

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. Votes: 0

I've been around for so long, people have their perceptions of me: good, bad or indifferent. Votes: 0

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling. Votes: 0

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist. Votes: 0

Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge. Votes: 0

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over. Votes: 0

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over. Votes: 0

It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false. Votes: 0

I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change. Votes: 0

My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century. Votes: 0

Travelers perceptions do not always reflect the reality of a situation, and ignorance is costing the industry billions. Votes: 0

There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses. Votes: 0

Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny. Votes: 0

To me, it's not about being anywhere, but being able to change my perceptions and experience something new. Votes: 0

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth. Votes: 0

To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward yourself and others. Votes: 0

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Votes: 0

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable... Votes: 0

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy. Votes: 0

That is the beauty of memory, isn't it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi) Votes: 0

The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions. Votes: 0

Let's stop being so damn judgemental & crucifying everyone who doesn't fit into our boxed-in perceptions of what is right. Votes: 0

Logically there is nothing new to say about the New. Or maybe it's just a problem of articulating unfamiliar perceptions. Votes: 0

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists. Votes: 0

Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us. Votes: 0

Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete. Votes: 0

Enjoy the limitless bliss consciousness here and now. The reality of you lies much beyond your sensory perceptions and boundaries. Votes: 0

Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark. Votes: 0

No one can go back and correct his mistakes, but everyone can go forward and change their thoughts and perceptions. Votes: 0

I don't believe there is a clash between cultures. I believe there is a clash between perceptions of each other. Votes: 0

The object of my worship lies beyond perceptions reach. For those who see, the Ka'ba is a compass, nothing more. Votes: 0

But Annabeth knew that people saw what they wanted to see. They didn't need the Mist to warp their perceptions. Votes: 0

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. Votes: 0

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour. Votes: 0

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present. Votes: 0

I don't dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don't know, people's perceptions of me. I truly don't. Votes: 0

I am ever with those who practice Kriya Yoga. I will guide you to the Cosmic Home through your enlarging perceptions. Votes: 0

Wrong perceptions cannot be removed by guns and bombs. They should be removed by deep listening, compassionate listening, and loving space. Votes: 0

Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success. Votes: 0

Everything is a state of mind. Astral travel is the ability to wander through different states of mind and develop psychic perceptions. Votes: 0

Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world. Votes: 0

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance. Votes: 0

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them. Votes: 0

The moral of the story: perceptions are everything. During each moment you are in contact with a customer, you are the organization. Votes: 0

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. Votes: 0

In my view, the holy is not based so much on the physical environment, but on the experience and perceptions of it. Votes: 0

Those who do not succeed do not believe in their ability to exercise the potential power to forge beyond perceptions of limitations. Votes: 0

The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means. Votes: 0

Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future. Votes: 0

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like. Votes: 0

Ever since I left Northern Ireland, I've always been pretty comfortable on my own, which contradicts a lot of people's perceptions of me. Votes: 0

If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns. Votes: 0

It is almost impossible to be consistent with your goal, if your subconscious mind is constantly fed with negative perceptions of its road. Votes: 0

I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing. Votes: 0

One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city. Votes: 0

Create an opportunity for change to have way in your attitude and lifestyle. Sometimes, it not us, but our perceptions scare away change! Votes: 0

Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses. Votes: 0

Speak up, stand up, and keep correcting the false perceptions. Stay true to your heart's views and keep chanting for peace and justice. Votes: 0

Everyone brings their own perceptions when reading a book about a real person. At the end they will take away whatever they wish. Votes: 0

Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a moment. Votes: 0

The person who suffers most in this world is the person who has many wrong perceptions, and most of our perceptions are erroneous. Votes: 0

Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of the world. Votes: 0

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured. Votes: 0

I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions. Votes: 0

Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a material universe. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A new species is being born inside each one of us. Eventually, we will all express the perceptions and values of this new species. Votes: 0

Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things. Votes: 0

We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life. Votes: 0

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route. Votes: 0

We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life. Votes: 0

You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world. Votes: 0

In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously. Votes: 0

Remember that our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is at the center of our life. Votes: 0

The amygdala, along with related areas..., plays a crucial role in coordinating perceptions with memory and behavior. These regions are especially sensitive to social interactions. Votes: 0

It's interesting how the view from abroad can shift and remake perceptions of homegrown celebrities, the ones who are part of the gross domestic product. Votes: 0

I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean. Votes: 0

Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation. Votes: 0

Thirty years of spiritual practice has given me the realization that emotions are based on our perceptions, whether or not they are based on reality. Votes: 0

You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too. Votes: 0

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality. Votes: 0

The media have such a strong hand in deciding what people's perceptions are. They decide what the agenda is going to be, what the issues are. Votes: 0

Top Gear' changed people's perceptions of me. I've had much more positive responses from my TV appearances than written articles. And I have the weirdest voice. Votes: 0

What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages. Votes: 0

I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion. Votes: 0

A lot of people have their own perceptions about me, like I'm very stuck up, so full of myself, you know. But it's not true"¦, Votes: 0

Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and conceptions. Votes: 0

Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer to your heart's desire Votes: 0

That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight. Votes: 0

Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest. Votes: 0

You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else's plan for you. Votes: 0

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all. Votes: 0

Our perceptions shape whether challenges are obstacles that block our path to success or important arrows that steer us in the direction we want to go. Votes: 0

You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside from limiting conceptions and dogmas. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions. Votes: 0

If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect. Votes: 0

While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions. Votes: 0

Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last. Votes: 0

Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last. Votes: 0

What could be a more Canadian way to indulge in the national preoccupation with perceptions - honest, hilarious, huffy or high-minded - of this country and its inhabitants? Votes: 0

My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide understanding, comfort, and company to others. Votes: 0

I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it. Votes: 0

You must have absolute faith in your own perceptions of truth. Never act in haste or hurry; be deliberated in everything; wait until you know the true way. Votes: 0

In most cases, failure is not determined by the obstacles we face, but by how we approach them and what our perceptions whisper to when on encountering eventualities. Votes: 0

The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. Votes: 0

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty. Votes: 0

Synchronistic events offer us perceptions that may be useful in our psychological and spiritual growth and may reveal to us, through intuitive knowledge, that our lives have meaning. Votes: 0

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom. Votes: 0

It's fantastic that the world is becoming more open to different ways of working, but we still have a long way to go in terms of changing perceptions. Votes: 0

The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite. Votes: 0

Focus your awareness on the heart chakra. As you do, you will feel your consciousness shifting. You may feel different perceptions of energy in different parts of your body. Votes: 0

Different mind, different perceptions, different imaginations. But truth is one. You can't run away from truth. That is reality, observe the reality as it is. Stop wandering, travel inside. Votes: 0

The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality... Votes: 0

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away. Votes: 0

Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions are phantoms; everything is eternity, God, divine. Votes: 0

Focus your awareness on the heart chakra. As you do, you will feel your consciousness shifting. You may feel different perceptions of energy in different parts of your body. Votes: 0

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves. Votes: 0

The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor. Votes: 0

I've learned not to attach personal feelings to critics who review your work. It's their opinions, their perceptions - it's a very subjective thing, and you can be hurt. Votes: 0

Rather, my perceptions about how we solve problems in health care or education span across a whole range of areas. And I want to try to capture that complexity. Votes: 0

It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort. Votes: 0

It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet. Votes: 0

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory. Votes: 0

His urbane brain cut the most magnificent capers, as, chloroformed by fatigue, it directed its incoming perceptions along the most absurd paths and enjoyed the utter senselessness of its associations. Votes: 0

As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is the ultimate home for that sense of ambiguity. Votes: 0

Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental. Votes: 0

We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. No woman can be well dressed unless she is comfortable in what she is wearing. Votes: 0

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world. Votes: 0

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase. Votes: 0

I think there was always that question mark of why am I not in St. Louis anymore? I think everybody had those questions and probably had those perceptions of me. Votes: 0

I don't say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese. Votes: 0

I think having six people all with different energies and different perceptions all working around a script is quite profound. It's not about, oh that's what you should be doing. Votes: 0

It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to affirm the richness of us as human beings both as performers and audience members. Votes: 0

The risks involved in the pursuit of magic are--put simply--either getting frightened by unpleasant perceptions or becoming deluded. Unfortunately it is possible to suffer from both symptoms at the same time. Votes: 0

The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in some part on economic and class differences and perceptions. Votes: 0

To the large extent that music can organize our perceptions of our own bodies and emotions, it can tell us things about history that are not accessible through any other medium. Votes: 0

When we start building perceptions based on our own experiences and judgements and not by the influence of fake media reports, that's the indication of our transformation into a mature society." Votes: 0

Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals. Votes: 0

The images we see, as a culture, help define and expand our dreams, our perceptions of what is possible. Pictures of who we are help us visualize who we can be. Votes: 0

The consistent finding of psychological research is that we are fairly accurate in our perceptions of others. It's our self-perceptions that are distorted because we look at ourselves in a rose-colored mirror. Votes: 0

Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled people who are perfectly healthy but often convinced they're not. Votes: 0

I always feel like I can do anything. That's the main thing people are controlled by: thoughts and perceptions of yourself... If you're taught you can't do anything, you won't do anything Votes: 0

We are evolving from five-sensory humans into multisensory humans.... The perceptions of the multi-sensory human extend beyond physical reality to the larger dynamical systems of which our physical reality is a part. Votes: 0

If you facilitate your subordinates' steady progress in meaningful work, make that progress salient to them, and treat them well, they will experience the emotions, motivations, and perceptions necessary for great performance. Votes: 0

The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name. Votes: 0

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it. Votes: 0

Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed. Votes: 0

What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity. Votes: 0

Self-reflection entails asking yourself questions about your values, assessing your strengths and failures, thinking about your perceptions and interactions with others, and imagining where you want to take your life in the future. Votes: 0

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better." Votes: 0

The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence. Votes: 0

Creative freedom is determined by how we behold the world. Any one of us can make new things with our perceptions that serve as doorways to the creative imagination. No one is excluded. Votes: 0

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better. Votes: 0

The other person has wrong perceptions about himself and about us. And we have wrong perceptions about ourselves and the other person. And that is the foundation for violence and conflict and war. Votes: 0

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times. Votes: 0

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false. Votes: 0

There may be little practical difference between a Ford Mondeo and a BMW three series, but in terms of perceptions of who you are and what you are, then they are worlds apart. Votes: 0

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions. Votes: 0

Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self. Votes: 0

Women's thoughts are impelled by their feelings. Hence the sharp-sightedness, the direct instinct, the quick perceptions; hence also their warmer prejudices and more unbalanced judgments. In this the child is like the woman. Votes: 0

Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you saw things as they really were, you would be happy automatically. Votes: 0

Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of our thoughts and illuminate each one of our perceptions. Votes: 0

When you don't take an aggressive role in shaping your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, you become a helpless passenger floating through the universe like a ghost ship, merely reacting to wherever it takes you. Votes: 0

We occupy a space of our own creation-a collage compounded by bits and pieces of actuality arranged into a design determined by our internal perceptions, our hopes, our fears, our memories, and our anticipations. Votes: 0

As you evolve and develop your psychic abilities, you will enter into perceptions of life, truth, beauty and you will gain a power to live your life in an intelligent, perceptive and strong way. Votes: 0

Experiences that we remember intrusively, despite desperately wanting to banish them from our minds, are closely linked to, and sometimes threaten, our perceptions of who we are and who we would like to be. Votes: 0

You are primal awareness. Life is only primal awareness. Between two thoughts or two perceptions you are. You know moments in your life when a thought completely disappears into silence, but still you are. Votes: 0

I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions. Votes: 0

Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way. Votes: 0

We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them. Votes: 0

As you evolve and develop your psychic abilities, you will enter into perceptions of life, truth, beauty and you will gain a power to live your life in an intelligent, perceptive and strong way. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The media has enormous power. The media is undergoing huge changes now. It seemed like it's time to step back and look at how the media shapes our lives and our perceptions of reality. Votes: 0

A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first step, and then you have a kind of hard road of execution. Votes: 0

The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both of these perceptions are wrong. Votes: 0

We're using gradients of light as an auric measurement, a quantified auric measurement of the ascension of consciousness from the relatively sensorial, material perceptions of existence to the more refined spiritual perceptions of existence. Votes: 0

Sarah Palin has admitted she tried marijuana several years ago, but she did not like it. She said it distorted her perceptions, impaired her thinking, and she's hoping that the effects will eventually wear off. Votes: 0

Being a liberal progressive has been demonized as anti-white or overly on the side of blacks. There's nothing that can be done about that; it's just where we are in the history of our perceptions. Votes: 0

Not one person would admit that they didn't want me to wear a bikini because of their aesthetic preference - a preference that is shaped by our cultural perceptions of what is and isn't beautiful. Votes: 0

Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things. Votes: 0

Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions. Votes: 0