Perceptions Quotes · Page 2

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

— Wallace Stevens

Perceptions are essential in politics.

— Antonio Guterres

Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.

— Gladys Taber

“People's realities are the result of their perceptions.”

— Karen Wojcik Berner

“Don't underestimate the power of being underestimated.”

— Tim Fargo

All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Life is built on perceptions, something between life and death, reality and fantasy.

— Johanna Georgsson

“I like to play with perceptions and stretch the bounds of believability.”

— Ellison James

“A language brings with it a mass of perceptions, clichés, judgements and inspirations.”

— Nicholas Ostler

I want to try to help shift perceptions people may have of me as an actor.

— Bradley Walsh

“And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Contrary to perceptions, I am completely devoted to my work, though I don't go around tom-tomming my commitment.

— Bobby Deol

People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works.

— Marcia Gay Harden

I don't dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don't know, people's perceptions of me. I truly don't.

— Matthew McConaughey

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When…

— Stephen Covey

I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate…

— Bill Gates

“Only if we transvalue the plain-vanilla standards of our life, we may bring back things to light and sense the lies behind…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Afraid of offending with an off word or the slightest insensitivity, I keep an unobtrusive and silent distance. Nevertheless, my pursed lips…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

A lot of people have their own perceptions about me, like I’m very stuck up, so full of myself, you know. But…

— Nadia Buari

'Top Gear' changed people's perceptions of me. I've had much more positive responses from my TV appearances than written articles. And I…

— James Blunt

Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.

— Ramana Maharshi

“Many patients grew up feeling their perceptions of their parents were forbidden and dangerous. They have learned to discount their own often…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

The worst thing you can do is try to manipulate or control perceptions. It's impossible, and when you are found out the…

— John Gerzema

We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have…

— Antonio Damasio

“He was all too aware of how one's perceptions can start lining up to support a particular conclusion. Once a pattern begins…

— John Verdon

Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions. Most emotions are responses to perception - what you think is true about a given…

— William P. Young

'Frankenstein' did not invent the fear of science; the novel found its audience because it dramatized anxieties that already existed. Although popular…

— Virginia Postrel

“I would begin to think that I wanted to do something, but then I would become incapable of distinguishing between the probable…

— Haruki Murakami

“Toxic people choose to judge you and treat you bad, based on their assumptions and perceptions they have about you, not based…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine…

— Christine de Pizan

“I knew her better than herself …and she was beautiful and strong and felt deep. It has always surprised me to see…

— Eiry Nieves

“The energy you bring, positive or negative, dictates your perceptions, receptions and radiations.”

— T.F. Hodge

Money can be a reflection of our perceptions of power, self-esteem, personal history, fears, and happiness.

— Mary Pilon

“Sophia Redgrave was obviously living in a world of stereotypical perceptions. ”

— Judy Angelo

We all have perceptions or boxes that we put each other in.

— Ashton Sanders

“Being you is what it is all about. Nothing less and nothing more.”

— Asa Don Brown

I had become a victim of people's perceptions. It's not just me, I think all actresses are.

— Tanushree Dutta

But Annabeth knew that people saw what they wanted to see. They didn’t need the Mist to warp their perceptions.

— Rick Riordan

“You will always receive what you are equal to and what your perceptions, judgments and positions insist.”

— Bryant McGill