Perception Quotes

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.
H. P. Blavatsky

Everything, Universe, Conscious

I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.
Kevin Garnett

Yourself, Giving, Understand

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.
Shia LaBeouf

Important, Sometimes, Almost

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.
Layne Staley

Life, Whatever, Meaning

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.
Daniel Radcliffe

Start, Stuff, Name

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.
Daniel Radcliffe

Famous, Person, Thinking

Logic will never change emotion or perception.
Edward de Bono

Change, Emotion, Logic

People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them, what good do they do?
Eric Davis

Time, Good, Money

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Reality, Rather, Bite

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
Edward de Bono

Mistakes, Thinking, Rather

I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.
Helena Bonham Carter

Change, Struggle, Frustrated

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?
Robert Fripp

I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
Gary Oldman

Crazy, Playing, Guy

I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not.
Sienna Miller

Real, Person, Public

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.
Muhammad Iqbal

Life, Growth, Unity

I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.
Danica McKellar

Change, Able, College

Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective.
Ron Fournier

Trust, Health, Care

I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.
Fred Frith

Politics, Win, Through

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

Public, Meet, Industry

Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.
Rashida Jones

Care, Control, Talent

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
Beverly Sills

Art, Him, Thought

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Home, Words, Same

And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
Harlan Coben

Love, Time, Fool

When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and your instincts are in play, so you make much quicker and more intelligent choices.
Martha Beck

Everything, Brain, Through

You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.
Maimonides

Matter, Reading, Physical

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

Conscious, Enslaved, Freed

'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.
Jason Reitman

Reality, Writing, Remember

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Great, Hope, Children

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

Important, Joke, Changing

Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
Raymond Chandler

Good, Bad, Writing

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