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• Aldous Huxley took the drug mescaline and then chronicled his experience in the book The Doors of Perception. Now, I don't actually think that's the first thing he wrote: he probably wrote 'my brain is melting' ten thousand times, but it was the book that the critics latched on to.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Book, Humor

  "Is It Bill Bailey?". Comedy, Music, 1998.

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• Magazines don't have enough confidence to have their own style, so they use a borrowed style. That is shocking to me, but your perception is very accurate. It's a way to be more commercially viable, but to me, that's not having a style, that's having a schtick.

  Gregory Heisler

  Style, Use, Magazines

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• I recognize that no matter how old I get, how many records I've done, or what the public perception of me is, there are still exciting things that I haven't done.

  John Dyer Baizley

  Done, Records, Matter

  "BARONESS' John Dyer Baizley Interview About His Artwork Process". Interview with Michael Weigman, www.metalinjection.net. July 10, 2014.

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• There's probably no one who understands Method acting better academically than I do, or actually uses it more in his work. But it's funny - nobody really sees that. It's perception versus reality, I suppose.

  Jack Nicholson

  Reality, Acting, Use

  Source: www.esquire.com

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

  Grimes

  People, Cameras, Because I Can

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When we cross the gates of death, our karma is all we take with us. Everything else that we enjoyed in this life we leave behind... Our karma is the only thing that will count in determining our rebirth, for our next life is nothing but the effects of our karmic tendencies that materialize in our perception.

  Tulku Thondup

  Karma, Next, Life Is

  Tulku Thondup (2006). “Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth: A Tibetan Buddhist Guidebook”, p.29, Shambhala Publications

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• I was a heavy drinker, but the alcohol affected my heart rather than my liver. So I stopped. I smoke grass now. I say that to everybody, because marijuana should be legalized. It's ridiculous that it isn't. If at the end of the day I feel like smoking a joint I do it. It changes the perception of what I've been through all day.

  Robert Altman

  Heart, Marijuana, Smoking

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• The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

  Charles Fillmore

  Life, Art, Cells

  Charles Fillmore (2012). “Metaphysical Bible Dictionary”, p.895, Simon and Schuster

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• Outside of being an actress, I feel like being out is the biggest way that gay people can change perception. There are people that give millions of dollars to gay organizations but are closeted to their own families

  Jill Bennett

  Gay, Organization, People

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• It's rewarding to be able to change people's perceptions of reality, ... They just see their environment in a different way. They have a kind of different-colored glasses that they can see their world in. To me, that's really cool - when games can change you.

  Will Wright

  Reality, Glasses, Games

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• What I had to learn was, that I'm responsible for my perception of things.

  Chris Robinson

  Responsible

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• In your system of reality you are learning what mental energy is, and how to use it. You do this by constantly transforming your thought and emotions into physical form. You are supposed to get a clear picture of your inner development by perceiving the exterior environment. What seems to be a perception, an objective concrete event independent from you, is instead the materialization of your own inner emotions, energy, and mental environment.

  Seth

  Independent, Reality, Use

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• Expectations are the engines of our perceptions.

  Seth

  Expectations, Mediocrity, Status Quo

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• Language is virtually always pathological; hence the solution is to move as fast and far as possible from language to experience, from linguistic to experimental or psychological philosophy. In order to know that we are not in the linguistic maze, we need to determine, according to Berkeley, whether the things we are talking about exist; hence we need to look for the relevant perceptions. For him, this usually means retiring into himself and trying to imagine whether x exists, having formed the best definition possible of x.

  David Berman

  Philosophy, Moving, Mean

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• To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.

  John Locke

  Men, Ideas, Firsts

  John Locke (1996). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.36, Hackett Publishing

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• Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

  Robert Hughes

  Running, Art, Thinking

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• What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

  Voltaire

  Madness, Reason

  Voltaire (1824). “A philosophical dictionary: from the French”, p.383

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• I am free, and always have been; free to accept my own reality, free to trust my perceptions, free to believe what makes me feel sane even if others call me crazy, free to disagree even if it means great loss, free to seek the way home until I find it.

  Martha Beck

  Crazy, Believe, Home

  Martha Beck (2005). “Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith”, p.284, Broadway Books

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• It is not the eye that sees the beauty of the heaven, nor the ear that hears the sweetness of music or the glad tidings of a prosperous occurrence, but the soul, that perceives all the relishes of sensual and intellectual perfections; and the more noble and excellent the soul is, the greater and more savory are its perceptions.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Eye, Perspective, Perfection

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• There are people who want awards because it changes the perception of the audience. But I'm not into all that.

  Salman Khan

  Awards, People, Want

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• What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.

  Robert Hughes

  Running, Art, Thinking

  "A bastion against cultural obscenity". www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2004.

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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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• For many ages it has been allowed by sensible men, Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuit prius in sensu: That is, There is nothing in the understanding which was not first perceived by some of the senses. All the knowledge which we naturally have is originally derived from our senses. And therefore those who want any sense cannot have the least knowledge or idea of the objects of that sense; as they that never had sight have not the least knowledge or conception of light or colours.

  John Wesley

  Men, Light, Sight

  John Wesley, John Emory (1835). “The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc”, p.406

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• Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

  John Locke

  Men, Mind, Consciousness

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.59

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• Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them.

  John Locke

  Eye, Use, Want

  John Locke (1812). “The works of John Locke. To which is added the life of the author and a collection of several of his pieces, publ. by mr. Desmaizeaux”, p.114

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