Perception Quotes - Page 40

• ISIS is gaining strength because the perception is that they're winning. And President [Barack] Obama fuels that perception.

  Ted Cruz

  Winning, Isis, President

  CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• President Obama fuels that perception. That will change when militants across the globe see that when you join ISIS that you are giving up your life, you are signing your death warrant.

  Ted Cruz

  Giving Up, Isis, President

  The fifth Republican debate, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• I have a strong army I keep with me and we don't go out there looking for problems. A lot of people have this perception... but I don't have a superiority complex about me because I'm from New York or because I'm Peruvian/Black. I think some people get caught up in that stuff.

  Immortal Technique

  Strong, New York, Army

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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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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• We call our intuition our sixth sense, but in reality it would be called our first sense, because it's rooted in quantum nature of reality. It was around long before our solar system and our planetary system were even formulated or even organized. It is at the basis of how our normal sensing works. So instead of being our sixth sense or even â€" using the parapsychological term â€" "extrasensory perception," it's not. It's at the basis of our perception, and that's the quantum world.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Reality, Long, Intuition

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Am I a fruitcake? I don't know. Perception is reality, so if I sit here and say, "I'm not a fruitcake, I'm a lemon cake," it doesn't matter. What you see me as in your world is what I am; it doesn't matter what I am - do you know what I mean? To me, I know what my real problems are - and they're certainly not about cake. And that's just the way it is.

  Macy Gray

  Real, Mean, Cake

  "It's a Macy, Macy world" by Tim Cooper, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2001.

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• Friedrich Hayek .. seems to have been the first to postulate what is the core of this paper, namely, the idea of memory and perception represented in widely distributed networks of interconnected cortical cells. Subsequently this idea has received theoretical support, however tangential, from the fields of cognitive psychology, connectionism and artificial intelligence. Empirically, it is well supported by the physiological study and neuroimaging of working memory.

  Joaquin Fuster

  Memories, Cells, Ideas

  "Network Memory". Trends in Neuroscience, Vol. 20, Issue 10, October 1997.

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• Fear is only my ego's deluded perception that it is possible to experience a lack of love in my life.

  Bijan

  Ego, Lack Of Love, Deluded

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• That peace that we're after, lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself. You can join the game, fight the wars, play with form all you want, but to find real peace, you have to let the armor fall.

  Jim Carrey

  Real, War, Lying

  Jim Carrey's Commencement Speech at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014.

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• What could be a more Canadian way to indulge in the national preoccupation with perceptions - honest, hilarious, huffy or high-minded - of this country and its inhabitants?

  Norman Angell

  Country, Indulge In, Huffy

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• Thought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you are think-ing you are thing-ing. Thought does not report things, it distorts reality to create things, and as Bergson noted, "In so doing it allows what is the very essence of the real to escape." Thus to the extent we actually imagine a world of discrete and separate things, conceptions have become perceptions, and we have in this manner populated our universe with nothing but ghosts.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Real, Thinking, Essence

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• He is so infinitely blessed, that every perception of His blissful presence imparts a gladness to the heart. Every degree of approach to Him is, in the same proportion, a degree of happiness.

  Susanna Wesley

  Blessed, Heart, Degrees

  John Kirk, Susanna Wesley (1864). “The Mother of the Wesleys: A Biography”, p.268

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• Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks' perceptions or the leftist libel.

  Dennis Prager

  America, White, Black

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• You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.

  John Henry Newman

  Religious, Eye, Waiting

  John Henry Newman, Francis J. McGrath, FMS, Gerard Tracey (2006). “The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman Volume IX: Littlemore and the Parting of Friends May 1842-October 1843”, p.274, Oxford University Press

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• The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

  Marianne Williamson

  Goal, Miracle, Would Be

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• We are all connected and operate within living fields of thought and perception. The world is not fixed but is in constant flux; accordingly, the future is not fixed, and so can be shaped.

  Joseph Jaworski

  World, Fields, Flux

  Joseph Jaworski, Peter Senge (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.109, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.

  William James

  Reality

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• There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.

  Gautama Buddha

  Self, Giving, World

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• Your perception of the world is ... really a fabrication of your model of the world. You don't really see light or sound. You perceive it because your model says this is how the world is, and those patterns invoke the model. It's hard to believe, but it really is true.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Believe, Light, Sound

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• Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.

  Nhat Hanh

  Home, Feelings, Suffering

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Dec 01, 2016

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• Make lists of positive aspects. Make lists of things you love - and never complain about anything. And as you use those things that shine bright and make you feel good as your excuse to give your attention and be who-you-are, you will tune to who-you-are, and the whole world will begin to transform before your eyes. It is not your job to transform the world for others-but it is your job to transform it for you. A state of appreciation is pure Connection to Source where there is no perception of lack.

  Esther Hicks

  Appreciation, Jobs, Eye

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• The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.

  Stephen Covey

  Responsibility, Reality, Views

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.26, Mango Media Inc.

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• I believe that a smile is the attribute of a positive attitude, both for yourself and the perception of others.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Attitude, Believe, Attributes

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2017

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• Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.

  Don DeLillo

  Borders, Firsts, Assault

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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• It's a mind going over things, revisiting things, maybe trying to refine the original perception. You have to keep going a thing over in order to make sense off it.

  Paul Auster

  Order, Mind, Trying

  "An Interview with Paul Auster" by Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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