Perception Of The World Quotes - Page 2

• There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is transformed by the camera, that you can't use the limitations or the transformation to have an observation that is a very subtle perception of the world.

  Stephen Shore

  Mean, Perception, Cameras

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Freed from the boundaries of time and space, I co-ordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be. My way leads towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.

  Dziga Vertov

  Space, Perception, World

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• I'm walking this walk and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

  Stephen Baldwin

  Perception, World, Function

  "Stephen Baldwin: 'Jesus or no Jesus, if my daughter started working in a strip club, I'd beat her ass'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

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• You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.

  Douglas Coupland

  People, Perception, World

  Douglas Coupland (2009). “Generation A: A Novel”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Thinking, Opposites, People

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• Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

  Theodore Bikel

  Perception, World, Paper

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• When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Understanding, Perception, World

  "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

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• Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of the world.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Effort, Understanding, Perception

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• All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Wild Places, Perception, World

  Robert MacFarlane (2009). “Wild Places”, p.103, Granta Books

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• Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

  Tina Weymouth

  Order, Perception, Want

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• Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Perception, Way, World

  Stephen Batchelor (1983). “Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism”, p.98, Grove Press

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• The private experience that you perceive forms your world, period. But which world do you inhabit? For if you altered your private sensations of reality, then that world, seemingly the only one, would also change. You do go through transformations of beliefs all the time, and your perception of the world is different. You seem to be, no longer, the person you that you were. You are quite correct — you are not the person that you were, and your world has changed, and not just symbolically.

  Jane Roberts

  Reality, Perception, World

  Jane Roberts (2011). “The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.350, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.

  Pattie Boyd

  Writing, Perception, Musician

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• A lot of things occurred to me with shamans in Peru.There were a number of different kinds of experiences that you learn from doing ritual and taking ayahuasca [a common tropical forest hallucinogen] is the key to understanding the native consciousness and perception of the world with the Peruvian shamans that you wouldn't get unless you had been with them, but every shamanic tradition, including the Native American tradition of medicine and cleansing ritual, like the Sun Dance or the sweat lodge.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Native American, Ayahuasca, Sweat

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Your hopes and dreams, as well as your perception of the world around you, come through in your work and make it unique.

  Nita Leland

  Dream, Unique, Perception

  Nita Leland (2006). “The New Creative Artist”, p.19, North Light Books

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• Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.

  Will Wright

  Change, Games, Play

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• Your perception of the world around you is not necessarily the same as what is actually occurring.

  Peter Ralston

  Perception, World

  Peter Ralston, Laura Ralston (2011). “Zen Body-Being: An Enlightened Approach to Physical Skill, Grace, and Power”, p.7, North Atlantic Books

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• My road is towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I decipher in a new way the world unknown to you.

  Dziga Vertov

  Perception, World, Way

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