Perception Quotes - Page 16

Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—without the pestilence of panic or fear.

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates.

No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.

Promenade was totally driven by the context. The internal relationships of measurement and placement related to the central axis of the site. The placement of the rectangular plates followed a strict logic in that the plates tilted away and towards the center line in an asymmetrical counterpoint. However, the perception of the sculpture contradicts the logic of its relation to the site. As you walk inbetween the plates you see fragments, you see the work in part, you cannot grasp the whole.

To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be... It is at those times when we feel we are contributing to that ultimate end... we feel true elation.

Your perception of the world around you is not necessarily the same as what is actually occurring.

Troops must be fed with ammunition and so on but also with information, with images, with visual intelligence. Without these elements troops cannot perform their duties properly. This is what is meant by the logistics of perception.

The expectations of theory colour perception to such a degree that new notions seldom arise from facts collected under the influence of old pictures of the world. New pictures cast their influence before facts can be seen in a different perspective.

Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose.

Beauty has always been an ​element of discussion for black women, whether or not we were the ones having the conversation​. Out of necessity, black women have always had to consider others' perceptions of a certain beauty ideal, just starting with the skin color.

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

True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy.

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up.

Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you

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.

You are a piece of creation. If you go against any other piece of creation, you are unknowingly going against yourself.

Back when I had a little, I thought that I needed a lot. A little was overrated, but a lot was a little too complicated. See, zero didn't satisfy me. A million didn't make me happy. That's when I learned a lesson that it's all about your perception....THERE'S HOPE. It doesn't cost a thing to smile. You don't have to pay to laugh. Better thank God for that.

The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.

As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity is required to pass from a nervous sensation to the conception of an external object, which the sensation has aroused. The sensations of our nerves of sense are mere symbols indicating certain external objects, and it is usually only after considerable practice that we acquire the power of drawing correct conclusions from our sensations respecting the corresponding objects.

Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doors of perception.)

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

Drake just stands for Do Right And Kill Everything

We need to believe that we're good people, and we'll do just about anything to maintain that perception.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.