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Perception Quotes
"It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be."
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"The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed."
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"My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias."
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"In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft."
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"The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental."
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"The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye."
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"We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs."
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"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
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"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see."
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"Our eyes are as open as much our minds are."
"It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not."
"The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception."
"Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything."
"Everybody loves comfort, but that is an illusion my friends."
"We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis."
"The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem."
"The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either."
"What other people think is important to them. What you think has great importance to you."
"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."
"What you expect, it will find the way to appear."
"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?"
"It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that."
"We don't see things. We see reflections of our feelings and perceptions."
"Everyone has beautiful eyes but they often see ugliness not the beauty of life."
"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."
"Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality."
"No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye."
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
"I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk."
"Your ears hear much, but your heart hears more. Your eyes see much, but your mind sees more. Your toungue says much, but your soul says more. Your feet travel much, but your imagination travels more. Your hands do much, but your mind does more."
"The earliest bird gets the worm only if the worm is stupid enough to show up."
"Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites."
"Those who look outside can only see an illusion. Those who look inside may see the reality."
"I often see through things right to the apparition itself."
"Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color."
"Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up."
"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge."
"Close your eyes. Now see the world, not with your vision but with your feelings and passion."
"Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic."
"We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms."
"We never learn to value what is simple; what is difficult is worthy to us. But, the beauty of life is in the simplicity."
"I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?"
"A beautiful gift does not decrease in value because it is wrapped in ugly paper."
"Materialistic perception of life makes us spiritually shortsighted."
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