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• Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Promise, Literature, Sides

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.119, University of Georgia Press

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• I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

  Sara Blakely

  Attitude, Thinking, People

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• I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

  David Bowie

  Loyalty, Integrity, Real

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• Walk to work, even if it's four miles. Ride a bike to work. Drive a different way. On your way there, try to find beauty. You'd be surprised how much more of the neighborhood you can perceive and experience when you're looking for unique spots of beauty.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Unique, Trying, Different

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• The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

  Albert Camus

  Silence, Sound, Ears

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• How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Interest

  "Question time". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2003.

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• If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.

  Gail Collins

  Dog, Government, Order

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• Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Fate, Determine

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• Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.

  Maureen Forrester

  Mistake, Bed Of Roses, People

  "Discouragement - A power" by Rajan Thapaliya, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2017.

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• The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Inspirational Education, Individual, Educated

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• Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

  David Hasselhoff

  People

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• I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you?

  Shannon Hoon

  Selfish, People, Frustrated

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• There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.

  Shannon Hoon

  Player, Keys, Rocks

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• Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

  William James

  Real, Character, Feelings

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.124, University of Illinois Press

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• People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Two, People, Opera

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

  Steve Jobs

  Technology, Simple, Numbers

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.

  Imran Khan

  Sports, Law, Justice

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• They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

  Imran Khan

  Thinking, Play, People

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• If people perceive you as a good actor then they'll wish for you to be a good actor and they'll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you're going to clubs every night people don't root for you anymore.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Night, Roots, People

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• At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Girl, Stupid, People

  "Kendrick Lamar: the rise of a good kid rapper in a mad city". Interview with Hattie Collins, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

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• Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.

  Robert Lanza

  Reality, Influence, Existence

  "Robert Lanza doesn't seem to be kidding" by Adam Rogers, www.wired.com. March 8, 2007.

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• When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.

  Robert Lanza

  Animal, Smell, Kitchen

  "Robert Lanza doesn't seem to be kidding" by Adam Rogers, www.wired.com. March 8, 2007.

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• I think every single person perceives things differently. We are all singular.

  Julia Leigh

  Thinking, Single Person, Persons

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• The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Thinking, Careers, Knowing

  "Matthew Macfadyen: 'I do have a good eye'". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.

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• The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.

  Andrew McCarthy

  Ideas, People, Mind

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