Perceptive Quotes

64 Perceptive quotes by 62 unique authors

But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive… — Laura Bush
So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally. — Alain Resnais
Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be… — Russell M. Nelson
As you evolve and develop your psychic abilities, you will enter into perceptions of life, truth, beauty and you will gain a power to live… — Frederick Lenz
Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye. — Douglas Sirk
It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny',… — Don Ellis
Shelley was an idol of mine -- and many -- an extraordinary woman with powerful charisma, enormous talent and a keen, perceptive mind. — Connie Stevens
The thing itself is one; the images are many. What leads to a perceptive understanding of the thing is not the focus on one image,… — Rudolf Steiner
Women are increasingly perceptive about the way media images are manipulated — Cynthia Leive
The area between the nose and the chin, the subject of kissing and the vehicle for speech, is perhaps even more known and set upon… — Robert Genn
I'm sometimes sort of in touch with the readership, and they seem to have perceptive questions, for the most part. — Bryan Lee O'Malley
The Brightwood Stillness is a novel I could not put down. On the surface, it is the lives of normal people in trying circumstances. Deeper,… — Andrew X. Pham
My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke
Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss. — Naomie Harris
My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke. — John Hodgman
I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive. — Christopher Meloni
A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s. — Alan Moore
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children. — Michael Morpurgo
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. — Lawrence Clark Powell
Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions. — Richard Russo
Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper… — Thomas Szasz
There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal. — Michael Chabon
Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final… — J D Salinger
Of course there is enough to stir our wonder anywhere; there's enough to love, anywhere, if one is strong enough, if one is diligent enough,… — William H. Gass
Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer. — Thomas Harris

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