Perception Quotes - Page 44

I don't care about anybody's perception of me except for the audience.

Sometimes as you work, you find that you are learning things about your own perceptions and motivations that are way below you consciousness. If you get lucky, you recognize what you are doing, but all too often we don't find the connection between our work and our own motivations.

It crosses your mind every once in a while that it's the AFC championship, but it's not any different. It's that whole thing that pressure's a perception, not a reality. It's what you allow to be put on yourself.

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.

There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.

How sure we are that everyone's watching. How sure we are that no one sees.

It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions.

There is a common perception that there are two alternative libertarian positions on immigration: government-controlled borders and open borders. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is only one libertarian position on immigration, and that position is open immigration or open borders.

A film is like a message dropped in a bottle in the sea that somebody finds. Every time somebody finds it, it's a miracle. But, I don't know what the perception will be. I can know what I tried to do, but I never know what the perception is.

Promotion and perception are synonymous twins of art marketing.

Approach every meeting with a purposeful, high-energy, ready-to-make-a-contribution attitude, and watch how fast leadership’s perception of you follows your behavior.

The secret to a successful career in virtually any field is good public relations. Forget results. Forget the facts. Perception is all that matters.

I'm always looking for poetry's place in the prose. For that moment, let's say, that arrests time, or that sentence in which the musical matrix or trope, the sounds of the words arranged in a way that heightens perception, a tunefulness that more clearly defines and transfers the feeling I'm after to the reader.

Our beliefs are what create our experiences. As we change our beliefs, we alter our perception, our version of reality.

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

When I've written for Bill Murray - I've written six films for him - people would read it and say, "Oh, that's so perfectly Bill." He'd read it and say, "Are you kidding? I can't say these words." So it's all about perception.

That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.

What is fantastic for me is that the Romantic movement comes out as a counter balance to everything that has been accumulating since the Age of Reason. I think the downfall of imagination as a genre or as a perception starts with the Age of Reason, which says everything else that came before us, all those superstitions, all those myths, are childish.

It's impossible to just localize your perceptions - because the stimuli come from both eyes.

I like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, "Ha! My perception, my accounting for that series, will indeed cover its next and future components," or "Next time I meet with these phenomena, I shall be able to predict their total course."

The searcher's eye Not seldom finds more than he wished to find.

I don't say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.

I am very aware of the impact that television has on people, in changing perceptions.