Perception Quotes

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as 'I'm cool, look at how many e-mails I get.' That perception doesn't scare me, because I know who I am.

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.

I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

Perception is reality.

To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.

Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.

But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.

What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

We live in a twilight sort of world where, unfortunately, the perception of the seriousness of abortion - has grown progressively obscured in the minds of many of our contemporaries.

In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.

I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.

The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

It's very difficult to change the perception people have of you.

Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that.

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

Modern morality is all about perception.

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?

However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

I think perception is important.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

I learned quickly that if the student's perception is that you're not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.

I'm not worried about misconception or a perception that's bad. If I were, I'd be chasing something all the time.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

I think there's a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures.

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics.

The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.

I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.

What I had to learn was, that I'm only responsible for my perception of things. The world's not out to get you. That's not the way it works.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries.

The problem is that perception is reality.

The perception is that more important people watch news in the evenings than in the mornings.

The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.

We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.

Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi,' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

Weight issues, race issues will always be there and if you allow them to get to you and you allow them to affect you then yes they affect you. But my thing is I have so many other things to worry about I can't worry about other people's perception of me.

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.

There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.