Perceptions Quotes

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.

You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different.

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.

Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

You know, one of the perceptions, again, about FEMA is that there's been a demise in the organization since it became the - under - it started to become part of the Department of Homeland Security.

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes.

The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

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.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.