Perception Quotes

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I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy. — Gary Oldman
There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. — Chuck Palahniuk
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to… — Blaise Pascal
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. — Pablo Picasso
But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses. — Steven Pinker
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. — Camille Pissarro
I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built… — Brad Pitt
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. — Edgar Allan Poe
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through… — Edgar Allan Poe
It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning. — Colin Powell
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. — Marcel Proust
We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's… — Queen Rania of Jordan
I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and… — Daniel Radcliffe
I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because… — Daniel Radcliffe
'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film… — Jason Reitman
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide… — Tony Robbins
Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they… — Salman Rushdie
We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not… — Sharon Salzberg
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us. — Virginia Satir

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