Perception Quotes - Page 4

Do we choose to see possibilities? Do we really believe that they're there? Perception controls our reality, and if we don't believe it, we won't see it.

The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza. As he moves, the sculpture changes. Contraction and expansion of the sculpture result from the viewer's movement. Step by step the perception not only of the sculpture but of the entire environment changes.

Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?

Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

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

Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.

Life has come from a very beautiful source. If you remain in touch with that source, everything about you will be beautiful.

During the Atlantean Cycle, the earth's aura, the invisible astral energy field that surrounds and protects our planet and through which all psychic perception flows, was very pure.

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.

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.

To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.

Talk is free. You never know what's going to happen after you talk. There's always a perception about a guy until you actually sit down and talk with him.

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

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.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

My disability is that I cannot use my legs. My handicap is your negative perception of that disability, and thus of me.

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

Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.

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

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.

The only revolution that will change anything is a revolution of perception.

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.