Perception Quotes - Page 25

• Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Enlightenment

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• In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Summer, Grief, Unique

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• To the large extent that music can organize our perceptions of our own bodies and emotions, it can tell us things about history that are not accessible through any other medium.

  Susan McClary

  Music, Body, Emotion

  Susan McClary (2017). “Reading Music: Selected Essays”, p.164, Routledge

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• The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect only those technologies that prove functional for a culture and can be integrated into everyday life are 'left over.' However, the perception of what is functional, successful and useful is itself the product of social and cultural--and last but not least--political and economic processes. Selection processes and abandoned products and product forms are usually not discussed.

  Johannes Grenzfurthner

  Successful, Technology, Political

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• Although age has its normal limits, it may be extended by two things-the study of history and by travel. Reading history broadens one's perception of the creation of the world, while travel extends one's field of vision.

  Mahmud Tarzi

  Reading, Two, Vision

  "The Destiny of Doris: A Travel-story of Three Continents" by Julius Chambers, (Preface), 1914.

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• [On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of our lives. She and I waited a long time for someone to devise an instrument that would reflect not only one's preference for extraversion or introversion but one's preferred kind of perception and judgment as well. In the summer of 1942 we undertook to do it ourselves.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Summer, Mother, Long

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• Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses.

  Rosemary Mahoney

  Sight, Slick, Overbearing

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• As we learn we always change, and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.

  Hyemeyohsts Storm

  Teacher, New Teachers, Changed

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• What Warcollier demonstrated is compatible with what modern cognitive neuroscience has learned about how visual images are constructed by the brain. It implies that telepathic perceptions bubble up into awareness from the unconscious and are probably processed in the brain in the same way that we generate images in dreams. And thus telepathic “images” are far less certain than sensory-driven images and subject to distortion.

  Dean Radin

  Dream, Brain, Way

  Dean Radin (2009). “Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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  If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Expectations, People, Mad

  "Star Wars, Thor: The Dark World, Arrow: January 4th Comic Reel". Empire Online, www.cbr.com. January 4, 2013.

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• Somebody said, "Well, you're going to write your definitive book about your life, biography." No, I'm not. I haven't done that. I wrote a book of letters which gives an insight into the real me as opposed to the public perceptions of me. But I'm convinced historians will figure out the things we got wrong and hopefully the things we got right.

  George H. W. Bush

  Real, Book, Writing

  "Transcript: George H.W. Bush on "FOX News Sunday". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 4, 2007.

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• It's interesting how the frame rate actually changes the perception of the 3D as well as making it more comfortable to watch.

  Peter Jackson

  Interesting, Watches, Rate

  "Peter Jackson Talks THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, Coming on When Guillermo del Toro Left, and Post-Converting LORD OF THE RINGS to 3D". Press conference, collider.com. December 14, 2012.

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• It's pretty exciting to take real people living in the real world, their opinions, and have people have to react to that. As opposed to their perceptions of what people are thinking, which are often very different.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: techcrunch.com

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• I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.

  James Franco

  People, Can Do, Decided

  "A Minute With: James Franco on villains and being James Franco". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. November 27, 2013.

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• I know I shall not live very long. But why is that so sad? Is a festival more beautiful because it lasts longer? My sensuous perceptions grow sharper, as if I were supposed to take in everything with the few years that will be offered to me ... And now love will still blossom for me before I depart, and if I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Beautiful, Flower, Hair

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• The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.

  William Fleming

  Memories, Imagination, Judgment

  William Fleming (1857). “The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral, and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students”, p.264

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• My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.

  Valerie Trierweiler

  Children, Father, Support

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• Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed.

  Tobsha Learner

  Men, Design, Flow

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• Don't be a slave to style. Don't take more from the world than you're willing to give back. And learn to undo the perceptions-so heavily promoted by the media-that shopping is a form of therapy and that a purchase is nothing but a victory or a gain.

  Thanissaro Bhikkhu

  Learning, Shopping, Media

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• If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.

  Jennifer Stone

  Knowledge, Reality, People

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

  Jennifer Stone

  Reality, Light, Shots

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• Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.

  Mary Butts

  Nature, Men, Obscure

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• Fashion is not trivial. It's a huge industry and a big part of our lives. Fashion is about us - how we look and present ourselves, how we can change ourselves, and our perceptions. You can dress up to be quite glorious creatures - it's all a very important part of life.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Fashion, Important, Dresses

  Harper's BAZAAR Interview, www.harpersbazaar.co.uk. December 5, 2012.

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• The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Sleep, Loss

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.76, 谷月社

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• Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and customs. It is not quite sufficient to good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Kindness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.88, 谷月社

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