Perception Quotes

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But what we're really trapped by is perceptions. You think you need to lose weight for someone to love you. I think if I gain… — Jennifer Weiner
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our… — Stephen Covey
Yes,â€ I told him. â€œI think the guy playing the Pirate King was awesome.â€ He stopped where he was. â€œWhat?â€ I asked, frowning at the… — Patricia Briggs
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness. — Arthur Conan Doyle
But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of… — Susan Cain
This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would… — Rene Descartes
You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect. — Tsitsi Dangarembga
A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules… — Jacques Derrida
Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this… — David Abram
Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists. — Anthony Kiedis
I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception. — Glen Duncan
All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions â€¦ In nature there is no effect without a cause â€¦ Experience never errs; it is… — Leonardo da Vinci
America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say â€œperceptionâ€ because America is a very all-or-nothing… — Max Brooks
Never limit your view of life by any past experience. — Ernest Holmes
There's a truth deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound… — Gregory David Roberts
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure. — John C. Maxwell
You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody elseâ€™s, not something that you have been told, because… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated… — Ayn Rand
Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind. — Siri Hustvedt
Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own. — Daniel Goleman

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