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“There is a sort of fair play, and if you can get in touch with that in your life, if you can have that perception, the world will begin to work for you, it will begin to move toward you... Nature loves courage, and it shows you that loves courage because it will remove obstacles.”

Ifs World Play Shows Moving Perception Fairs Obstacles Remove Nature Love Fair Play Courage To Love

Author:Terence McKenna

“It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false.”

Dream Right Now Perception

Author:Rene Descartes

“He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.”

Heart Imagination Perception Senses Spells

Book:The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more

Source: The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more

“The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit.”

Mean Spirit Individual Identity Perception Universal Liberation

Author:Laozi

“Science sometimes improves hypotheses and sometimes disproves them. But proof would be another matter and perhaps never occurs except in the realms of totally abstract tautology. We can sometimes say that if such and such abstract suppositions or postulates are given, then such and such abstract suppositions or postulates are given, then such and such must follow absolutely. But the truth about what can be perceived or arrived at by induction from perception is something else again.”

Ifs Sometimes Matter Would Be Given Perception Proof Realms Abstract Hypothesis Supposition Tautology

Author:Gregory Bateson

“Our perception of yesterday is the foundation for our expectations of tomorrow.”

Tomorrow Perception Expectations Foundation Yesterday

Author:Gene Simmons

“People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork.”

People Reality Perception Average Dork

Author:Art Alexakis

“As other perceptions arise...the total vision of human possibilities enlarges and is transformed.”

Humans Vision Possibility Perception Arise Transformed

Author:Jean Baker Miller

“Back then they had Elvis and they thought Elvis was so risqué. So everyone has their perception to what innocence is.”

Perception Innocence

Author:Josh Brolin

“I think there's a perception of me that I'm the dark lord of all that is scary and gory, but that's completely false. I love musicals. My house is very bright and lit. It's not what people would really expect from a Saw director, but I think that's what allows me to do the things that I do.”

People Thinking House Dark Lord Saws Directors Perception Scary Lit I Love Music

Author:Darren Lynn Bousman

“A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste, when it lifts him above mere appetite for wildness, ruggedness, and the feeling of mass and precipitous elevation, into a perception and love of the refined grandeur, the chaste sublimity, the airy majesty overlaid with tender and polished bloom, in which the landscape splendor of a noble mountain lies.”

Source: The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry

“Perception precedes reality.”

Reality Perception

Author:Andy Warhol

“The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.”

Kind Different Views Perception Microsoft Underdog

Author:Bill Gates

“All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.”

Perception Rooted Metaphorical

Author:Denis Leary

“The secret to a successful career in virtually any field is good public relations. Forget results. Forget the facts. Perception is all that matters.”

Matter Facts Forget Results Secret Careers Successful Fields Perception Relation Public Relations Successful Career

Author:Jack McDevitt

“I don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a line funny just by, I don't know, some extra-sense perception. I only know character and emotion and real acting; that's all I know how to do.”

Knows Real Character Guy Lines Acting Emotion Know How Perception Bills Extras Sense Perception

Author:John C. Reilly

“You and I have that same power at our disposal every moment of the day. At the moment, the questions that we ask ourselves can shape our perception of who we are, what we're capable of, and what we're willing to do to achieve our dreams.”

Moments Dream Asks Achieve Willing Shapes Perception Capable Who We Are Our Dreams

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.”

Play Film Desire Actors Roles Industry Hero Perception Experiments Indian Cinema Mainstream Typical Film Industry Latent

Author:Abhishek Bachchan

“Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.”

Thinking Mind Self Remember Eternal Perception Ordinary Vivid Vividness

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.”

Ifs Process Natural Perception Photography Former Latter

Author:Umberto Eco

“I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly... I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way.”

Ifs Way Want Problem Actors Felt Emotional Serious Perception Dumb Judged Emotional Problems

Author:Lisa Kudrow

“It's nice to represent to other people in the world that Americans actually do know what's happening in the world, can speak other languages and are conscientious. The perception quite often is that we don't know what's beyond our county line.”

People Knows World Speak Language Lines Nice Perception Happenings County Often Is

Author:Cary Fukunaga

“Obviously, my perception of the world is one where humans are a threat to our survival.”

World Humans Perception Survival Threat Perception Of The World

Author:Kevin Bacon

“It is important to note that the world changes and that perception of music changes as well.”

World Wells Important Perception Notes

Author:Michala Petri

“I only want to keep moving up and up in terms of quality and be careful with perception. I don't just want to do things that are the pretty girl with lots of makeup, I want to get into the gritty stuff and get down and dirty and dark and really feed my soul and not my vanity.”

Want Soul Moving Girl Stuff Term Dark Quality Perception Down And Careful My Soul Vanity Dirty Makeup Be Careful Keep Moving Pretty Girl Moving Up

Author:Nina Dobrev

“The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in some part on economic and class differences and perceptions.”

Differences Decision Class Economic Paper Perception Red Majority Distinction Bags Leather Paper Bags Class Differences

Author:David L. Bazelon

“I found out that changing the perception of myself and the NFL, and reestablishing the notion of being a gentleman was important to me.”

Important Found Perception Notion Gentleman Nfl

Author:Dhani Jones

“I can feel how an audience is reacting when I'm on a stage, but when you are on stage, your perception is distorted. That's something you just have to know. It's like pilots that fly at high Gs and they lose, sometimes, consciousness and hand/eye coordination and they just have to know that that's going to happen. They have to be trained to not try to do too much while they are doing that. So when you are on stage, you have to be aware that you are wrong about how it feels a lot of times.”

Knows Feels Trying I Can Sometimes Hands Happens Eye Loses Consciousness Audience Too Much Stage Perception Pilots Reacting Coordination

Author:Louis C. K.

“Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.”

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition

“Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way I know how to invite this experience is by removing the other things (i.e., subject matter) for you to think about.”

Thinking Knows Way Matter Consciousness Know How Subjects Awareness Activity Perception Visuals Invites Pointing Subject Matter Hyper Visual Perception

Author:Uta Barth

“Gradually I saw that it was less interesting for me, as an artist, to frame the world wholly according to my own perceptions. I wanted instead to create situations in which I allowed others' perceptions to surface with my own.”

World Wanted Artist My Own Interesting Situation Saws Perception Surface

Book:Collaborative works with children 1969-1999

Source: Collaborative works with children 1969-1999

“Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know, and suggests a world beyond what we can see. Creativity is the gap between perception and knowledge.”

Knows World Important Feelings Creativity Perception Photography Instruments Gaps Duality

Book:Emmet Gowin: aerial photographs

Source: Emmet Gowin: aerial photographs

“Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It is not only their apparent 'objectivity' that grants photographs their high status in this regard, but our belief that in them, fugitive sensation has been laid to rest.”

Has Beens Belief Memories Perception Regard Photograph Visuals Grants Sensations Objectivity Fugitive Anomalies Arbiter Visual Perception

Book:Photography & Fascination: Essays

Source: Photography & Fascination: Essays

“What I'm after is the liquidity of things, how one things leads you on to the rest... The works are about concentration, intention, and paths of thought: the flow of totality in our perception, the fragmentation of the river of phenomenon.”

Path One Thing Perception Flow Rivers Intention Concentration Phenomenon Totality Fragmentation Liquidity

Author:Gabriel Orozco

“... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again. Really great art regenerates the perception of reality; the reality becomes richer, better or not, just different.”

People Art Important Different Reality Perception Museums Really Great Great Art Gallery Perception Reality

Author:Gabriel Orozco

“[I]n general, my work is less about expanding the possibilities of photography than about re-investing it with a truer perception of things by returning to a simple method, one that photography had from the beginning of its existence.”

Simple Existence Possibility Perception Photography Method Investing Expanding

Author:Thomas Struth

“This beauty ideal is everywhere. You can't escape it - TV, wallpaper, posters, billboards, magazines. They put on these crazy perceptions about what people should look like. It's really shocking the way everybody is striving for this one thing, this ultimate beauty, but what is it?”

People Way Should Looks One Thing Crazy Tvs Perception Ideals Ultimate Strive Magazines Shocking Posters Billboards

Author:Jurgen Teller

“Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.”

Looks Feelings Grows Levels Situation Emotional Perception Emotional Intelligence Present Situation

Author:Deepak Chopra

“In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them, apply yourself to the destruction of craving for them. Verily, ... the extinction of craving is Nirvana.”

Way Play Feelings Body Consciousness Break Perception Destruction Your Body Cease Craving Extinction

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it.”

Book Lost Generations Perception Tradition Direct Permanent Dependent Faculty Receiving Flavor Mystic Peaches Book Learning Apricots

Author:Ezra Pound

“Remember that our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is at the center of our life.”

Remember Results Our Lives Products Perception Reactions

Book:The Divine Center

Source: The Divine Center

“ISIS is gaining strength because the perception is that they're winning. And President [Barack] Obama fuels that perception.”

Winning President Perception Barack Fuel Isis President Barack Obama

Author:Ted Cruz

“President Obama fuels that perception. That will change when militants across the globe see that when you join ISIS that you are giving up your life, you are signing your death warrant.”

Giving President Giving Up Perception Fuel President Obama Globes Isis Signing Warrants

Author:Ted Cruz

“I have a strong army I keep with me and we don't go out there looking for problems. A lot of people have this perception... but I don't have a superiority complex about me because I'm from New York or because I'm Peruvian/Black. I think some people get caught up in that stuff.”

People Thinking Problem Strong Stuff Black New York Perception Army Complexes Caught Superiority Caught Up Superiority Complex Peruvians

Author:Immortal Technique

“A lot of things occurred to me with shamans in Peru.There were a number of different kinds of experiences that you learn from doing ritual and taking ayahuasca [a common tropical forest hallucinogen] is the key to understanding the native consciousness and perception of the world with the Peruvian shamans that you wouldn't get unless you had been with them, but every shamanic tradition, including the Native American tradition of medicine and cleansing ritual, like the Sun Dance or the sweat lodge.”

“We call our intuition our sixth sense, but in reality it would be called our first sense, because it's rooted in quantum nature of reality. It was around long before our solar system and our planetary system were even formulated or even organized. It is at the basis of how our normal sensing works. So instead of being our sixth sense or even â€" using the parapsychological term â€" "extrasensory perception," it's not. It's at the basis of our perception, and that's the quantum world.”

World Firsts Long Reality Would Be Term Normal Perception Bases Intuition Organized Rooted Quantum Solar System Sixth Sense Sensing

Author:Edgar Mitchell

“Am I a fruitcake? I don't know. Perception is reality, so if I sit here and say, "I'm not a fruitcake, I'm a lemon cake," it doesn't matter. What you see me as in your world is what I am; it doesn't matter what I am - do you know what I mean? To me, I know what my real problems are - and they're certainly not about cake. And that's just the way it is.”

Ifs Knows World Way Mean Real Matter Problem Reality Perception Do You Know Cake Lemons Real Problems Fruitcake Perception Is Reality

Author:Macy Gray

“Friedrich Hayek .. seems to have been the first to postulate what is the core of this paper, namely, the idea of memory and perception represented in widely distributed networks of interconnected cortical cells. Subsequently this idea has received theoretical support, however tangential, from the fields of cognitive psychology, connectionism and artificial intelligence. Empirically, it is well supported by the physiological study and neuroimaging of working memory.”

“All perception is colored by emotion.”

Emotion Perception

Author:Immanuel Kant

“Fear is only my ego's deluded perception that it is possible to experience a lack of love in my life.”

Ego Perception Deluded Lack Of Love

Author:Bijan