“Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.” WorldWayArtInspirationMotivationPerceptionArt IsPracticalsChanging The WorldAnalogiesPractical Things Author:JR
“I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.” MotivationPsychologyMagicNew YorkPerceptionRootsUniversityProfessorsDreadExistentialThesis Book:An American Dream: A Novel Source: An American Dream: A Novel
“Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.” ThinkingMenMaySelfMotivationFallSpaceExistencePerceptionStandardsRegardSupremeTrapsEquationsTime And SpaceInclinationSelf CenteredAxiomsExpediency Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel
“Engineers, medical people, scientific people, have an obsession with solving the problems of reality, when actually ... once you reach a basic level of wealth in society, most problems are actually problems of perception.” PeopleProblemRealityInspirationMotivationWealthLevelsPerceptionMedicalObsessionEngineers Author:Rory Sutherland
“My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide understanding, comfort, and company to others.” WayWritingHumansMayMotivationUnderstandingCompanyConditionsComfortPerceptionCommunicateInsightPrimariesHuman Condition Author:Vanna Bonta
“The trouble is that all-encompassing though information technology may be, it will always convey facts and numbers ... what it does not convey is perception, belief and motivation.” MayDoeFactsMotivationBeliefNumbersTechnologyTroubleInformationPerceptionInformation Technology Author:John Harvey-Jones
“Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right” LifeMatterRunningMotivationCoursesGoalWalksPerceptionCeilings Book:Letters of Aldous Huxley Source: Letters of Aldous Huxley