Perception Quotes - Page 40

Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

In this world we live in now, with a 24/7 news cycle, perception can sometimes be more powerful than reality.

It's very seldom that we see the good of the South. There is a perception that Southerners are racists and everyone else in the nation is 'enlightened.' There is racism everywhere, and there is good everywhere.

My perception is that I'm a guy who really does a lot of homework surrounding any project that I do.

If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them.

There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would call over-the-top performances. Well, this is completely false.

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

The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why in order to dissipate fear, we have to remove wrong perception.

I'm sorry if my traumatized life is an inconvenience to you and your perfect existence.

A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

If the Liberal Left can create the common perception that success and failure are simple matters of 'fortune' or 'luck,' then it is easy to promote and justify their various income redistribution schemes.

The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society

Perspective should be learned - and then forgotten. The residue - a sensitivity to perspective - helps perception, varying with each individual and determined by his responsive needs.

What has happened is that we have seen a shift in the past twenty years in the very concept of hacking. So hacking twenty years ago was a neutral, positive concept. Somebody who was a hacker was someone with advanced computer skills, which could expose vulnerabilities and could explain why systems worked well or worked badly and they were generally regarded as an asset. Over the past twenty years, a combination of media and law enforcement has changed the perception of the concept so that it has almost always, if not invariably, a pejorative sense attached.

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

I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.

We saw some resistance in the Wichita market until we partnered with EPIC. The increased awareness and information handed out regarding ethanol-enriched fuel made a huge difference in the public's perception.

I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.

Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?

It is important to note that the world changes and that perception of music changes as well.

The [Edward] Snowden disclosures created this perception that people's privacy was being put at significant risk.

Companies made these decisions about encryption when they were finding it very difficult to sell their products overseas because the [Edward] Snowden disclosures created the impression that the U.S. government was inside this hardware and software produced by them. They needed to do something to deal with the perception.

Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by their effects.

I get very surprised and shocked because there is so much prejudice against me as a celebrity, instead of them looking at the quality of my work. Just look at the work. Forget about who I am. But there is so much perception in the art business that blurs that insight. The work speaks, so just look and then judge from there.

... and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.