Perception Quotes - Page 5

The entire pursuit of value investing requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their misperceptions.

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.

Perception precedes reality.

Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

The object of my worship lies beyond perceptions reach. For those who see, the Ka'ba is a compass, nothing more.

The source of creation is within you. You can be just a piece of flesh, or you can be the Creator himself - this is the choice and potential you have.

It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.

The Statist has an insatiable appetite for control. His sights are set on his next meal even before he has fully digested his last. He is constantly agitating for government action. And in furtherance of that purpose, the Statist speaks in the tongue of the demagogue, concocting one pretext and grievance after another to manipulate public perceptions and build popular momentum for the divestiture of liberty and property from its rightful possessors.

I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception.

Just remember that nothing is as bad as it seems and nothing is as good as it sometimes appears.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.

Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

You are primal awareness. Life is only primal awareness. Between two thoughts or two perceptions you are. You know moments in your life when a thought completely disappears into silence, but still you are.

There is evidence that acupuncture influences the production of and distribution of a great many neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, and that this in turn alters the perception of pain.

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

The media has enormous power. The media is undergoing huge changes now. It seemed like it's time to step back and look at how the media shapes our lives and our perceptions of reality.

The music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment. And I’m not willing to contribute my life’s work to an experiment that I don’t feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists, and creators of this music. And I just don’t agree with perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free.

Everything begins as an internal reality and then is externalized through perception.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.