Perception Quotes · Page 138

It's maybe a better thought to change the perception of an accent than to avoid it all together.

— Jimmy O. Yang

Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the…

— Flann O'Brien

The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of…

— Ezra Pound

I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute…

— Plutarch

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense…

— Beverly Sills

I don't want people to feel sorry for me, I want them to realize how strong I am.

— Anonymous

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

— Sigmund Freud

These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the…

— Alan Turing

If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you…

— Laozi

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.

— Kristi Yamaguchi

Looking at everything through your phone is only numbing your perception - it does not really enhance your experience of life in…

— Jaggi Vasudev

Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification…

— Leland Ryken

I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but…

— Kenny G

The most beautiful people are the ones that don't know they are. Love isn't blind it makes us see the beauty inside…

— Brad DRoza

... and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.

— Michael Chabon

All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small…

— Robert Macfarlane

“Though we may choose to view them symbolically, dreams are actually no more or less symbolic than everyday waking reality. When the…

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Value-first is a perception. If your customer does not perceive it as value, then it's not very valuable.

— Jeffrey Gitomer

Every once in a while it is important to take out the trash out of your head.

— JREYES

“I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if held in…

— Kahlil Gibran

“Our perceptions shape whether challenges are obstacles that block our path to success or important arrows that steer us in the direction…

— Julie Connor

This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style…

— Robert Teeter

There are so many levels of understanding and experience when it comes to this thing we call love. In our human relationships,…

— Michael Beckwith