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“Death is simply a change in perception. It is not an end to perception as a finite being.”

“Perception is everything and that becomes the reality. It's a big problem for Hillary Clinton.”

Problem Bigs Reality Perception Clinton Big Problems

“I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their moment, so that I'm not projecting so much, so that my perception of the song doesn't interfere with what its real body is. Sometimes it's like telling a story that I heard in passing, and I don't want it to become completely mine.”

Want Kind Ideas Real Sometimes Moments Stories Body Song Heard Mines Perception Built Structure Passing Passings Fragile Interfere Improvisation

Author:Ryan Adams

“In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling.”

Knows Men Should Wells Art Feelings Age Lying Religious Common Consciousness Perception Method Fellows Unions Various Well Being Brotherhood Fellow Man Lying Men Brotherhood Of Man

Book:What is Art?:

Source: What is Art?:

“The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.”

Real Philosophy Causes Humour Projects Perception Laughter Concepts Incongruity

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality.”

People Reality Break Cutting Perception Oneness Barriers Break Through Interdependence Perception Reality

Book:Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247

Source: Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247

“The brain is the citadel of sense perception.”

Brain Perception Intellect Citadels Sense Perception

Author:Pliny the Elder

“If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.”

Ifs World Looks Asks Painting Perception Ask Me

Book:Looking for answers: conversations on art and science

Source: Looking for answers: conversations on art and science

“Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.”

Self Ignorance Perception Twenties Intolerance Pathetic Egotism Assertion Dense Nineteen Pitiful Unconsciousness Opaque Chuckles

Book:Mark Twain's Letters

Source: Mark Twain's Letters

“No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.”

Republican Perception Mass Meetings

Book:Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890

Source: Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890

“The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.”

Persons Artist Perception Training Experts

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.”

Humans Art Seems Perception Specialists Artifacts

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.”

Matter Chance Perception Intellectual Leisure Speculation Intercourse Moralist

Author:Samuel Johnson

“A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us well come what may.”

Wells May Simple Pleasure Perception Capacity Simple Pleasures

Book:Epicurean Simplicity

Source: Epicurean Simplicity

“As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.”

Giving Mind Light Knowledge Objects Perception Crowds

Author:François-René de Chateaubriand

“The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.”

Kind Natural Perception Highest Experience Artistic Mystical Intuitive Mystical Experiences Analogue

Book:The Seven Storey Mountain

Source: The Seven Storey Mountain

“Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.”

Perception Edges Daily Life Familiarity

Author:Julia Ward Howe

“It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.”

People Past Individual Essentials Perception

Author:Clement Freud

“I actually did trouble to read Marx first hand. I found it illuminating in so many ways; in particular, my perception of the relationship between people and the society in which they live was irreversibly altered.”

People Way Firsts Hands Found Trouble Particular Perception Altered Illuminating

Author:Tony Blair

“Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age. It is, of course, equally silly to condemn the new fangled simply because it is strange.”

People Book Ideas Enough Age Courses Strange Perception Silly Old Fashioned

Author:Prince Philip

“This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.”

Mind Heart Objects Perception Sight Division Seers

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“The reality of it, excuse me, is when you're in the public they already have a perception of you, ... And that can be a little awkward.”

Littles Reality Perception Excuse Awkward Excuse Me

Author:Joe Namath

“Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.”

Men Use Natural Civilization Perception Invention Faculty Improvisation

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all the skill which one can acquire. And then to stand before the judgement of time.”

Can Do Achieve Skills Achievement Perception Judgement Acquire Faculty

Author:Stephen Spender

“Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops, a certain kind of experience is usually necessary in order to perceive it.”

Way Kind May Sometimes Dream Might Certain Order Painting Perception Perceive Subconscious Chords

Author:Robert Motherwell

“Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.”

Giving Mean Literature Painting Shapes Perception Drawing Colour Sensations Concrete Abstraction

Author:Paul Cezanne

“I've got a different perception now and it's really enjoyable to be at this point in your life and be able to watch this.”

Different Able Watches Perception Enjoyable Different Perceptions

Author:Nolan Ryan

“I use visual perception as a way of bringing people into my space.”

People Way Use Space Perception Visuals My Space Visual Perception

Author:Richard Artschwager

“Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?”

Heard Perception Dancing Shallow Raisins Grapevine

Author:Pete Townshend

“My road is towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I decipher in a new way the world unknown to you.”

World Way Creation Perception New Ways Decipher Perception Of The World

Author:Dziga Vertov

“The common perception is it only happens to people who aren't paying attention.”

People Happens Common Attention Perception Pay Attention

Author:Thomas Jones

“Someone called my character the Meg Ryan of the Broken Hearts bunch. Now maybe the perception is that I'm a Meg Ryan type.”

Heart Character Broken Type Perception Bunch Meg

Author:Dean Cain

“It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more basic than that: it is perception.”

Thinking Facts Enemy Perception Enlightenment Logic

Author:Douglas Hofstadter

“Downey Savings & Loan receives high ratings from its customers in California in areas related to personal service and for being customer focused. Downey customers are also twice as likely to visit a branch as their primary transaction method, which contributes to higher overall satisfaction levels. Multiple convenient locations and extended operating hours in supermarkets positively increase customer perceptions of convenience for Downey.”

“We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.”

Thinking Different Black Differences White Views Color Perception Black And White Puritan Different Views Bright Colors

Author:Carlisle Floyd

“It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.”

Giving Feelings Artist Wish Painting Perception Observation Atmosphere Register

Author:Lucian Freud

“The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.”

Made Use Government Political Decision Cities Military Perception Bases Nuclear Enormous Bombs Atoms Arsenal Atom Bomb

Book:A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat

Source: A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat

“It is a little surprising given the strength of the economy that there is a perception - at least among some of the public - that the economy is not very good.”

Littles Given Economy Perception Very Good Surprising

Author:Edward Lazear

“With the exception of weapons of mass destruction, there is no other type of attack that is more effective than suicide terrorism. The perception is that it's impossible to guard against.”

Impossible Type Perception Weapons Mass Destruction Suicide Terrorism Exception Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction

Author:Bruce Hoffman

“Gasoline inventories are tighter than they were a few weeks ago. It's all about perception, because inventories are well above where they have been in previous years.”

Years Wells Has Beens Week Perception Gasoline Inventory Previous Years

Author:Kyle Cooper

“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, but the viewing of many images together.”

Together Understanding Focus Perception

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.”

Persons Perception Program Deny Enlightened Locked Ongoing Premises Monotonous Victimization

Author:Robert Brustein

“I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.”

Ifs Stills Body Speak Fronts Perception Relation Interpretation Self Perception

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.”

World Natural Fields Perception Setting Settings My Thoughts Explicit

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception.”

May Different Reality Remember Doubt Risk Groups Shapes Perception Rewards Perceive Internals Incentives Marketplace Risk And Reward

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive.”

People Leadership Decision Perception Associates Decisiveness Indecisive

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“What's the first image that comes to mind when you think of a mental hospital? Jack Nicholson in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' right? We need to change that perception, and places like this one are doing that.”

Thinking Needs Mind Firsts Perception Hospitals Nests Flew Need A Change Cuckoos Nicholson One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Author:Deborah Norville

“No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area.”

Thinking Want Giving Ability Dog Exercise Perception Areas Abandon Accurate Tails Blanche

Author:Michael Scheuer

“The IMPP work was already very important. The recent AOL action might reinforce public perception that a standard is needed, but I think the public already realized this.”

Thinking Important Might Action Needed Perception Standards

Author:Keith L. Moore

“The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.”

Whole Artist Interest Fields Perception Highest Details

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

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