Perception Quotes - Page 41

Behaviors and lifestyles that are classified as "normal" rarely get so generalized, public perception of heterosexual relationships, for instance, or of the "white" experience, allow for the infinite variety of experiences that exist under such headings, but people love to reduce the vastness of individuality and subjectivity within marginalized types of experience.

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.

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

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.

I should choose to be happy. You can choose; you can just throw a switch since, your whole life, it?s just in your brain anyway. It?s just your perception of it.

Compassion is an alternate perception

A brand is a person's perception. Of course, it makes marketers nervous to think that marketing is out of their control, but that's why the discipline of branding has emerged.

Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.

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

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

It takes mystical insight to see the beauty and innocence in each other, even when that is not what we are showing to the world. That is why God is needed in intimate relationships, to move us beyond the perceptions that can so often poison love.

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.

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.

We want the clear facts to be reported that we, according to the FBI, have a lower violent crime rate than Atlanta, or Houston, or Dallas, or Miami or San Antonio. To some extent, the perception that's been created is much greater than the reality.

I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.

Perception of a state is not the state.

The lack of predictability with television is something that's constantly changing what your perception of who you think your character is.

I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life.

Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.

Whether I'm a hero or a zero doesn't really matter. It's all perception.