Perception Quotes - Page 39

You and I have that same power at our disposal every moment of the day. At the moment, the questions that we ask ourselves can shape our perception of who we are, what we're capable of, and what we're willing to do to achieve our dreams.

Tony Robbins

Dream, Shapes, Who We Are

Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.

Abhishek Bachchan

Hero, Play, Desire

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Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Birth, Elegance, Manners

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Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.

Allen Ginsberg

Thinking, Self, Mind

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If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.

Umberto Eco

Photography, Natural, Process

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I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly... I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way.

Lisa Kudrow

Emotional, Dumb, Way

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It's nice to represent to other people in the world that Americans actually do know what's happening in the world, can speak other languages and are conscientious. The perception quite often is that we don't know what's beyond our county line.

Cary Fukunaga

Nice, Often Is, People

Source: collider.com

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Obviously, my perception of the world is one where humans are a threat to our survival.

Kevin Bacon

Survival, World, Threat

"January Jones, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Kevin Bacon, Zoë Kravitz, Rose Byrne & Lucas Till Talk X-Men: First Class". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 1, 2011.

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It is important to note that the world changes and that perception of music changes as well.

Michala Petri

Important, World, Notes

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I only want to keep moving up and up in terms of quality and be careful with perception. I don't just want to do things that are the pretty girl with lots of makeup, I want to get into the gritty stuff and get down and dirty and dark and really feed my soul and not my vanity.

Nina Dobrev

Girl, Moving, Dirty

"Nina Dobrev’s New Chapter". Interview with Michael Peña, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2015.

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The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in some part on economic and class differences and perceptions.

David L. Bazelon

Class, Differences, Decision

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I found out that changing the perception of myself and the NFL, and reestablishing the notion of being a gentleman was important to me.

Dhani Jones

Nfl, Gentleman, Important

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I can feel how an audience is reacting when I'm on a stage, but when you are on stage, your perception is distorted. That's something you just have to know. It's like pilots that fly at high Gs and they lose, sometimes, consciousness and hand/eye coordination and they just have to know that that's going to happen. They have to be trained to not try to do too much while they are doing that. So when you are on stage, you have to be aware that you are wrong about how it feels a lot of times.

Louis C. K.

Eye, Hands, Trying

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Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way I know how to invite this experience is by removing the other things (i.e., subject matter) for you to think about.

Uta Barth

Thinking, Matter, Way

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Gradually I saw that it was less interesting for me, as an artist, to frame the world wholly according to my own perceptions. I wanted instead to create situations in which I allowed others' perceptions to surface with my own.

Wendy Ewald

Artist, Interesting, World

Wendy Ewald, Adam D. Weinberg, Urs Stahel (2000). “Collaborative works with children 1969-1999”, Scalo Verlag Ac

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Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know, and suggests a world beyond what we can see. Creativity is the gap between perception and knowledge.

Emmet Gowin

Photography, Creativity, Feelings

Emmet Gowin, Princeton University. Art Museum (1998). “Emmet Gowin: aerial photographs”

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Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It is not only their apparent 'objectivity' that grants photographs their high status in this regard, but our belief that in them, fugitive sensation has been laid to rest.

Max Kozloff

Memories, Objectivity, Anomalies

Max Kozloff (1979). “Photography & Fascination: Essays”

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What I'm after is the liquidity of things, how one things leads you on to the rest... The works are about concentration, intention, and paths of thought: the flow of totality in our perception, the fragmentation of the river of phenomenon.

Gabriel Orozco

Rivers, Flow, Path

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... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again. Really great art regenerates the perception of reality; the reality becomes richer, better or not, just different.

Gabriel Orozco

Art, Reality, Museums

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[I]n general, my work is less about expanding the possibilities of photography than about re-investing it with a truer perception of things by returning to a simple method, one that photography had from the beginning of its existence.

Thomas Struth

Photography, Simple, Investing

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This beauty ideal is everywhere. You can't escape it - TV, wallpaper, posters, billboards, magazines. They put on these crazy perceptions about what people should look like. It's really shocking the way everybody is striving for this one thing, this ultimate beauty, but what is it?

Jurgen Teller

Crazy, People, Looks

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Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.

Deepak Chopra

Emotional, Feelings, Looks

FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Jul 02, 2012

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In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them, apply yourself to the destruction of craving for them. Verily, ... the extinction of craving is Nirvana.

Gautama Buddha

Play, Feelings, Body

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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it.

Ezra Pound

Book, Receiving, Generations

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Remember that our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is at the center of our life.

Stephen Covey

Remember, Reactions, Results

Stephen R. Covey (1982). “The Divine Center”, Bookcraft Pubs

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