Perception Quotes

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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one… — David Schwimmer
The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. — Gail Sheehy
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit… — Beverly Sills
Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must. — Sivananda
It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance. — Arthur Smith
The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer. — Arthur Smith
Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers. — Layne Staley
I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So… — Angie Stone
I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I… — Kristin Scott Thomas
The perception of beauty is a moral test. — Henry David Thoreau
The universe is wider than our views of it. — Henry David Thoreau
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. — James Thurber
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. — Mark Twain
I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America. — Tracey Ullman
The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group… — Atal Bihari Vajpayee
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. — Leonardo da Vinci
I am an American man, and in America, we still think of figure skaters as little girls in pretty, sparkly dresses - I worked very… — Johnny Weir
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to… — H.G. Wells
There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power. — Paul Wellstone

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