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“That peace that we're after, lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself. You can join the game, fight the wars, play with form all you want, but to find real peace, you have to let the armor fall.”

Want War Real Play Form Lying Fall Fighting Games Effort Personality Perception Invention Disguise Armor Perception Of Others

Author:Jim Carrey

“What could be a more Canadian way to indulge in the national preoccupation with perceptions - honest, hilarious, huffy or high-minded - of this country and its inhabitants?”

Way Country Honest Perception Indulge Preoccupation Indulge In Huffy

Author:Norman Angell

“The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.”

Problem Kids Sports Perception Dyslexic Dyslexia

Author:Bruce Jenner

“Thought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you are think-ing you are thing-ing. Thought does not report things, it distorts reality to create things, and as Bergson noted, "In so doing it allows what is the very essence of the real to escape." Thus to the extent we actually imagine a world of discrete and separate things, conceptions have become perceptions, and we have in this manner populated our universe with nothing but ghosts.”

Thinking World Doe Real Reality Universe Bits Imagine Perception Essence Ghost Reports Conception Discrete

Author:D.T. Suzuki

“He is so infinitely blessed, that every perception of His blissful presence imparts a gladness to the heart. Every degree of approach to Him is, in the same proportion, a degree of happiness.”

Heart Degrees Perception Approach Blessed Proportion Impart Gladness

Book:The Mother of the Wesleys: A Biography

Source: The Mother of the Wesleys: A Biography

“Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks' perceptions or the leftist libel.”

America Left Black White Behavior Perception Majority Tension Falsehood Leftists Animosity Libel Racial Tension

Author:Dennis Prager

“You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.”

Mind Soul Reason Eye Waiting Religious Truth Is Perception Patient Educated Perceive Reasoning Inward Be Patient Religious Truth

Book:The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman Volume IX: Littlemore and the Parting of Friends May 1842-October 1843

Source: The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman Volume IX: Littlemore and the Parting of Friends May 1842-October 1843

“The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.”

Knows Looks Would Be Goal Perception Miracle

Book:A return to love: reflections on the principles of

Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of

“We are all connected and operate within living fields of thought and perception. The world is not fixed but is in constant flux; accordingly, the future is not fixed, and so can be shaped.”

World Fields Perception Constant Connected Fixed Flux

Book:Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

Source: Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

“Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.”

Reality Perception

Author:William James

“There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.”

World Giving Self Whole Perception Illusion Concepts Whole World Idle Contradictory

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Your perception of the world is ... really a fabrication of your model of the world. You don't really see light or sound. You perceive it because your model says this is how the world is, and those patterns invoke the model. It's hard to believe, but it really is true.”

World Believe Hard Light Sound Perception Models Patterns Perceive Invoke Hard To Believe Fabrication Perception Of The World

Author:Jeff Hawkins

“Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.”

Needs Feelings Home Body Care Suffering Perception Take Care Your Body Acknowledge Need You Take Care Of Yourself

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Make lists of positive aspects. Make lists of things you love - and never complain about anything. And as you use those things that shine bright and make you feel good as your excuse to give your attention and be who-you-are, you will tune to who-you-are, and the whole world will begin to transform before your eyes. It is not your job to transform the world for others-but it is your job to transform it for you. A state of appreciation is pure Connection to Source where there is no perception of lack.”

“The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.”

Has Beens Reality Views Responsibility Perception Tests Objectives Assumption Maps Taking Responsibility Paradigm

Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“I believe that a smile is the attribute of a positive attitude, both for yourself and the perception of others.”

Believe I Believe Attitude Perception Positive Attitude Attributes Perception Of Others

Author:Jeffrey Gitomer

“Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.”

Firsts Seems Perception Borders Assault

Book:Cosmopolis

Source: Cosmopolis

“It's a mind going over things, revisiting things, maybe trying to refine the original perception. You have to keep going a thing over in order to make sense off it.”

Trying Mind Order Perception Originals Make Sense Keep Going

Author:Paul Auster

“My altered perception of reality while on psychedelic drugs came as a total shock to me.”

Reality Drug Perception Shock Psychedelic Altered Psychedelic Drugs Perception Reality

Author:Susan Schneider

“People tell me I'm a comedian, but I don't approach acting from that perspective. I do know that everything in life has to do with your timing and perception. You have to be comfortable with the rhythm that you're in. You can't just jump into a fast rhythm if yours is slow. You might have to pick up the pace but in your own particular way. It has to do with personality, too.”

People Ifs Knows Way Might Acting Particular Perspective Personality Comfortable Perception Approach Picks Rhythm Comedian Pace Timing

Author:Mike Tyson

“I like to compare the first experiences of the Internet - the fortuitousness, the chance - with reality, with the experience, for example, of being in a city that you don't know. Many times - and I don't know if I can totally defend this argument - I've found that the way one experiences the world, and daily life, we are constantly dealing with these perceptions. And it seems like it works, this superficial perception of determinacy, but it's completely ridiculous.”

Ifs Knows World Way Firsts I Can Reality Seems Found Chance Cities Example Internet Perception Argument Ridiculous Compare Daily Life Superficial

Author:Sergio Chejfec

“Another trouble with poetry - and I'm gonna stop the list at two - is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes for granted an interest on the reader's part in the poet's autobiographical life, in the poet's memories, problems, difficulties and even minor perceptions.”

Two Problem Interest Memories Trouble Poet Reader Perception Difficulty Lists Granted Minors

Author:Billy Collins

“Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.”

Seems Artist Sea Poet Perception Musician Contemporary Versions Painter Officials Accurate Contemporary Life

Author:Billy Joel

“It's a common perception that science and religion are mutually exclusive. But there are many scientists who would consider themselves to be spiritual people.”

People Spiritual Common Perception Scientist Science And Religion Exclusive

Author:Katharine Hayhoe

“Being a liberal progressive has been demonized as anti-white or overly on the side of blacks. There's nothing that can be done about that; it's just where we are in the history of our perceptions.”

Has Beens Done Sides White Perception Progressive

Author:Darryl Pinckney

“For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event. Downtown Beirut became a metaphor for so many things: man's inhumanity to man, what Charles Bukowski called "the impossibility of being human." It shaped our perceptions of war and human nature, just as Vietnam did for our parents. We used it to understand how the world works.”

“One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.”

Cities Perception Negative Weird Things

Author:Matthew Specktor

“What if nothing needs to change other than our perception of what we see?”

Ifs Needs Perception What If Need A Change

Author:Lee L Jampolsky

“I think that a true economics thinker or a Marxist thinker would make nonsense of my argument, although I have given massive seminars and no one has demolished it so far. I did think that this idea from an artisanal and trading perception of the auratic quality of goods when they are given character and inscription, made the stories of phantasmic wealth read more powerfully in the 18th and 19th centuries than the stories of Cinderella's wealth, because they are conjured out of nothing by these magic means.”

Thinking Mean Made Ideas Character Stories Given Wealth Quality Magic Century Perception Economics Argument Nonsense Massive Goods Thinker Trading 19th Century Marxist Inscriptions Seminars

Author:Marina Warner

“I'm more into the perception scope of a work; I'm exploring this concept of perception and how people can look at someone, look at the community, and put in so much judgment, so much stereotype, so much misconception.”

People Looks Community Judgment Perception Concepts Exploring Stereotype Scope Misconception

Author:eL Seed

“Everywhere I've been, from South Africa to Brazil, people are connected to it. For me, art is a way to bring people together. You can put people on the same level, the perception is the same. You can bring a worker, like a cleaning guy, or the richest guy on earth, and they will have the same feeling or they would be able to feel the same.”

People Way Feels Art Feelings Would Be Able Earth Together Guy Levels Perception Art Is South Workers Connected South Africa Cleaning Brazil

Author:eL Seed

“I recognize that memory is far from infallible though. If I feel like I can't accurately describe something, I just leave it out. I also do things like write "he talked about ..." instead of writing direct quotes. But generally I feel like since my stories are very obviously meant to be my perception of an event rather than the objective truth this gives me a lot of leeway.”

Ifs Giving Feels Writing I Can Stories Memories Events Perception Direct Give Me Objectives Meant To Be Infallible Objective Truth

Author:Marie Calloway

“For me, literature is the daughter of music: a bit heavy and more level headed than its mother. Literature submits to the same principles of successive perception, which allows it to build progressively.”

Mother Literature Bits Levels Principles Perception Daughter Heavy Submit Level Headed

Author:Dumitru Tepeneag

“I don't really know what people's perception about Palestinians.All art is to better life. We want to create hope and share with others. Create more pleasure, and object to despair. Really it's about that. A space where we can be less aggressed upon.”

People Knows Want Art Space Pleasure Share Objects Despair Perception Art Is Palestinian Better Life

Author:Elia Suleiman

“I studied engineering at MIT. There, the late, great physicist Philip Morrison introduced me to the idea that, in any system, there exists the inevitability that an event will occur which is completely unrelated to anything that preceded it. It completely changed my perception of "impossible."”

Ideas Impossible Events Changed Late Perception Engineering Physicist Inevitability Philip Mit

Author:Tohoru Masamune

“I was raised by somebody with the perception of trying to allow me the space and show me the importance of knowing who I was and figuring out who I was and appreciating who I was.”

Trying Shows Space Knowing Perception Appreciate Importance Raised Show Me

Author:Patricia Arquette

“With Aquaman I worked with such talented guys, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado. And he's a great character. I mean, Aquaman's a great character, he just hasn't been positioned in a role of importance in a long, long time. We tried to do that in this series; give him this platform because he deserves it, and give a very different perception of Aquaman while at the same time staying true to who the character is. Showing his power level, his fortitude, his sense of honor and commitment and responsibility, and hopefully showing everything that makes a hero a hero.”

“I feel like people focus too much on what other people think of their lives and trying to appear like they have it all together rather than focusing on just being happy. You can't control the perception of others no matter how hard you try. Do things that promote personal growth and health. Genuine happiness is hard to miss.”

People Thinking Feels Trying Matter Hard Together Growth Too Much Focus Missing Perception Personal Growth Genuine Just Being Genuine Happiness Perception Of Others

Author:Melanie Iglesias

“People have these perceptions; maybe they've been here for a day, or have only heard about it. It was like when I first came to work here. You want to see the clean city that is always talked about, how nice the people are, the restaurants, the vibe, how diverse the city is. That's what we want to show: what an enjoyable city it is, what a great city it is. Forget about basketball.”

People Want Firsts Shows Forget Cities Nice Heard Basketball Perception Clean Restaurants Diverse Enjoyable Great Cities

Author:Masai Ujiri

“Teenagers expressing this on a daily basis in the middle of the streets - you can't help but believe we are in the mind state of taking our losses and changing people's perceptions of us and our community. We are strong. Our families are tired of being hurt.”

People Mind Believe States Helping Strong Community Hurt Loss Streets Middle Perception Bases Tired Teenager Our Family Our Community Being Hurt

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“Nudity doesn't scare me at all; the only thing about it is the perception by the audience.”

Audience Perception Scare Nudity

Author:Amanda Seyfried

“I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.”

People Past Events Shapes Perception Currents Fascinated Current Events Past Events

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“The editor needs to put his own life on hold for the better of the magazine, the crew, and the readers. And to have a bigger vision of the magazine's style and an understanding that every [issue] should be well-balanced and hopefully surprising. To have a pink wall with a door of perception where he can bang his head on.”

Needs Should Wells Understanding Vision Issues Doors Style Wall Reader Perception Bigger Magazines Hopefully Editors Surprising Balanced Crew Bangs Doors Of Perception

Author:Toni Jerrman

“I am in a mixed race marriage myself, and I have a mixed race son....The racial perception interest is probably always going to be there to some extent.”

Interest Race Son Perception Mixed Race

Author:Celeste Ng

“I don't think that we are capable of anything like this many possible colour responses. Instead I argue that the perception of colour differences between two surfaces viewed side-by-side is a gestalt phenomenon.”

Thinking Two Sides Differences Perception Capable Response Surface Arguing Colour Phenomenon Gestalt

Author:David Papineau

“I think my view is rather more radical than Pete Mandik's. Both of us want to show that colour perception doesn't transcend what can be conceptualized, but I don't think he goes so far as to deny that it doesn't involve different responses to all the discriminable surfaces.”

Thinking Want Different Shows Views Perception Response Deny Surface Radical Colour

Author:David Papineau

“I don't think that we can figure out what is going on in conscious colour perception just by phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms as well. We need to figure out what information is present in the mechanisms that constitute conscious colour perception.”

Thinking Knows Needs Wells Brain Figures Information Perception Conscious Colour Mechanism Introspection

Author:David Papineau

“The use of neuroscientific data to help resolve phenomenological questions is proving a common theme in much contemporary thinking about the mind. How rich are the contents of visual perception? Does vision only tell us about shapes and colours, or does it also represent higher categories like lemon or umbrella?”

Thinking Mind Doe Helping Use Common Vision Rich Higher Shapes Prove Perception Contemporary Data Theme Visuals Colour Resolve Categories Lemons Umbrella Visual Perception

Author:David Papineau

“I rather incline towards 'conceptualism', in line with my view of colour perception - I don't think that we can represent objects and properties for which we have no concepts, not even in perceptual experience. In this sense I differ from those who defend 'non-conceptual content' like Michael Tye and Chris Peacocke.”

Thinking Lines Views Objects Perception Concepts Property Colour Incline

Author:David Papineau

“Whether I'm a hero or a zero doesn't really matter. It's all perception.”

Matter Hero Perception Zero

Author:Lissie

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