Perception Quotes - Page 43

This beauty ideal is everywhere. You can't escape it - TV, wallpaper, posters, billboards, magazines. They put on these crazy perceptions about what people should look like. It's really shocking the way everybody is striving for this one thing, this ultimate beauty, but what is it?

I move on stage differently. The more you act, anyway, the more you live, your perception of life becomes more and more accurate.

Back then they had Elvis and they thought Elvis was so risqué. So everyone has their perception to what innocence is.

I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

We live in an extraordinary time, in which one still has the ability to mold opinion. Also, it's up for grabs. Perceptions are up for grabs in a way that it hasn't been before, which makes it really interesting. Societies that have always defined other aspects of human experience, or histories, try to hold on to it and try to find ways to continue to be the ones who do the interpreting.

For me, it feels like my ideas are more specific to random thoughts or single ideas I might have, as opposed to being influenced by a general perception of absurdity.

Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger from their folly, not from their wisdom; their weakness is what fills us with apprehension, not their strength.

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.

Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception.

To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.

There is an enormous thrust in our time to have a simple answer. And that simple answer is that all depends on Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve. And Alan, who is an old acquaintance of mine, is a marvelous performer in the impression he gives of enormously great perception.

I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.

I loved working with [ Lars Von Trier], but I've done two films before, so I was quite used to him.He's a man of incredible moods of course, but he's also a hugely perceptive man, and there's no getting away from that. And he's able to put that perception into something like film, so we're very lucky.

I recognize that no matter how old I get, how many records I've done, or what the public perception of me is, there are still exciting things that I haven't done.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art? The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.

There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

I would never do anything that makes the perception of country music worse.

And if a moment exists only in one's perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely its shadow.

As it turned out, my perception was so much more intimidating than the reality.

Disney is our contemporary landscape. The best art will reflect that and challenge you. Disney comforts you, whereas the best art shakes up your comfort level and perception.

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The faster it ran away from me. And I found myself reasoning that perhaps one more beer would unlock the doors of perception.

I'm sure that having acted like an asshole for a great deal of my life, then having played assholes for a good part of my life, created a perception that I'm an asshole.