Perception Quotes - Page 7

Truth is universal. Perception of truth varies.

Your perception is your habitual perspective. The way you consciously choose to see life on a regular basis. The moment that you are aware of your perspective and detach to see things from a different point of view (Even SLIGHTLY) is the moment that your entire complexity from within you changes.

Matthew Donnelly

He has neither what I call the outward vision (seeing details all around you what is called an observant person) nor the inner vision--concentration, the focusing of the mind on one object. He has a purposefully limited vision. He sees only what blends and harmonises with the bent of his mind.

Agatha Christie

You can only carry the illusive personality in your mind until you realize the truth behind it, but the time you realize the truth, you just cannot hold the illusive self of yours, in the mind.

I believe we are the ones who hurt ourselves the most, by how we receive, by how we perceive.

Elasticity is a fundamental principle of perception,

Neal Shusterman

The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and the chief difference between the novelist who is an orthodox Christian and the novelist who is merely a naturalist is that the Christian novelist lives in a larger universe. He believes that the natural world contains the supernatural. And this doesn't mean that his obligation to portray the natural is less; it means it is greater.

Flannery O'Connor

If you simply get detach from yourself, it gets easier for you to see, how you perceive life.

Utopia is a collective shift of perception away. Abundance is all around us. Only our efforts at tower-building blind us to it, our gaze forever skyward, forever seeking to escape this Earth, this feeling, this moment.

Charles Eisenstein

The perspective is more important than the perception

The circularity of influence was like a trail of dominoes falling in four dimensions. Each time one slapped another and fell to the ground, from a different vantage point it appeared knocked upright, ready to be slapped and fall again. Everything was not merely relative, it was--how to put it? --relevant. Representational. Revealing. Referential and reverential both.

Gregory Maguire

No perspective, no perception.New perspective, new perception.

Toba Beta

When you're at peace, you embrace the eternity.When you're confused, you be dazzled by doomsday.

Toba Beta

Silverfish looked down."Oh. Are you a dwarf?"Cuddy gave him a blank stare."Are you a giant?" He said."Me? Of course not!""Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes.

Terry Pratchett

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.

A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Marcus Aurelius

What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey—and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.

George Gaylord Simpson

It's been said that people see what they want to see. For that exact reason, look for the good in people, rather than the bad.

Donald L. Hicks

What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however... good or bad... is totally up to you.

Donald L. Hicks

Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.

Alain de Botton

People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

DaShanne Stokes

Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.

DaShanne Stokes

How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.

Ashly Lorenzana

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.

I live in a world where people are guided by limited imagination; only facts that are favorable to them are truths. They are unable to live anyway else. When a person finds out that a fact is against them, it's usually because it's the truth. No one tries to step outside of the edge of reason. No one tries to step beyond the edge of the world.

We each project to others a reflection of the world which includes our choices of perception.

You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes.

Shannon L. Alder

A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in any spiritual endeavor, and that the conscious, rational, logical, analytical mind is the mortal enemy of spiritual awareness and soul growth.

Anthon St. Maarten

I love you because you loved me first. Yet you love me, saying I loved you first. Funny, our love thrives believing the other person started it.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Mind needs more than 3D perception to be able to see edge of the universe.

Toba Beta

Learn to see past the flaws and you will understand the perfection of the Universe.

The only kind of universe that I can even begin to conceive is an inconceivable one.

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.

Nicholas Sparks

What smells good may not always taste good, I leaned this the day I tried to eat a scented candle.

Kenny D. Eichenberg

I said once that lies have no rights against truth. I was wrong. In daily life, it's the truth that's disenfranchised. What fits the popular narrative, what makes an observer happy with the consistency of events, is what is believed.

Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.

DaShanne Stokes

We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people’s minds.

Shannon L. Alder

Perception is blind to the knowledge that you cannot understand.

My heart goes out to some of those rather hostile yet highly intelligent individuals who may see problems really because they have solutions. That hostility is learned in defense; not offense. An often stubborn and prideful world, in its self-destructive, temporary bliss of ignorance, may be violently resistant to the watchful mind.

When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.

Shannon L. Alder

What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.

Time is a structured perception of human brain on natural events. Eternity ain't based on the human perception, but on perpetual cycle.

Toba Beta

The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in livingcreatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were inrepose, their minds untroubled, their bodies motionless.

If having problems feels like a problem to you, it may not be the problems themselves, but the way you think about them that is the problem.

Clarity is a perception; it’s an emotional alignment of thoughts, intuitions, inclinations, expression and expectations.

Pearl Zhu

Fear is a perception to dare but not to scare.

Debasish Mridha

What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.

My point in mentioning this is only to say that people who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in what you do, even if you're just quietly going about a life of your own choosing. They make you doubt yourself, which, depending on cases, can be a severe distraction and a waste of time. This is a thing I wish I had understood much earlier than I did.

Marilynne Robinson

Foreign behavior? What the fuck are you talking about? Foreign behavior? Have you read Things Fall Apart? Ifemulu asked, wishing she had not told Ranyinudo about Dike. She was angrier with Ranyinudo than she had ever been, yet she knew that Ranyinudo meant well, and had said what many other Nigerians would say, which was why she had not told anyone else about Dike's suicide attempt since she came back.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

People carry around with them internalization's fixed-feature space learned early in life. Man is like other members of the animal kingdom , first, last and always a prisoner of his biological organism. No matter how hard he tries, it is impossible for him to the best himself of his own culture, where it has penetrated to the roots of his nervous system and determines how he perceives the world.

Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.

I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.' Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?

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