Perception Quotes - Page 35

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts, they paint watercolors of perception.

Space and time are not objects of perception, but qualities of awareness

Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.

Your life can only be as free as your perception of it

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

What amazes me is how far some people will go to justify their behavior to themselves, just to preserve that self-perception.

Reality, unlike perception, cannot be changed by propaganda.

In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its symbol.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?

But that is the thing about miracles: it is perception that determines them as such, not facts.

It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.

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

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

The visual does seem to me the most thoroughly grasped and recorded among my impressions; sight seems to be my principal sense organ, and "seeing" supplies the key metaphors for reporting the perception.

Lewis sought no disciples, nor does he offer a program or solution, rather his contribution is a critical discipline. Lewis is a stimulant, a mode of perception, rather than a position or practice.

I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That's not my family's fault; it was my perception.

Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.

I don't think we know yet what broadcast television did to us, although it obviously did lots. I don't think we're far enough away from it yet to really get a handle on it. We get these things, I think they start changing us right away, we don't notice we're changing. Our perception of the whole thing shifts, and then we're in the new way of doing things, and we take it for granted.

I always just wanted to have the wherewithal to make another record. I never really dreamt of fortune or fame, because it seemed so unlikely. I'm much more interested in people's perceptions of me than what my life is really like. It appears that some people think it's all cocaine and caviar for Okkervil River. And it's not. I'm making a little bit more than I was making at the video store right now.

An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen and the number of cases assimilated is the measure of experience.

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.

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

A perception of impossibility should never go unchallenged.

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