Perception Quotes

The new limitations are the human ones of perception.

Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception.

Perception is reality.

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.

When you look at the state of the economy right now, you have to set a priority. And my top priority is the deficit of jobs and economic growth, and especially this perception that the United States could be falling behind especially Asian economies.

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

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Science is nothing but perception.

I think perception is important.

Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.

In fact, I think - our view of this is that while the agreement, the compromise did not achieve the kind of super-sized deficit reduction that we sought, it did end the uncertainty around the perception, the possibility that the United States might default on its obligations for its first time. That was a good thing.

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.

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

Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.

Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality.

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

How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am.

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.

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