Best perception & differences Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.”

States Dream Differences Cases Special Essentials Perception Absence Waking Relative Input Sensory

Author:Stephen LaBerge

“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

“The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.”

Art Differences Teach Effects Students Perception Traffic Subtlety Small Differences

Author:Elliot W. Eisner

“We saw some resistance in the Wichita market until we partnered with EPIC. The increased awareness and information handed out regarding ethanol-enriched fuel made a huge difference in the public's perception.”

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Author:Mike Hoffman

“Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology I mean, roughly, the view that many fundamentally different kinds of psychological mechanisms must be postulated in order to explain the facts of mental life. Faculty psychology takes seriously the apparent heterogeneity of the mental and is impressed by such prima facie differences as between, say, sensation and perception, volition and cognition, learning and remembering, or language and thought.”

“Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.”

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Author:Bill Cowher

“The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.”

“What, then, is the basic difference between today's computer and an intelligent being? It is that the computer can be made to seebut not to perceive. What matters here is not that the computer is without consciousness but that thus far it is incapable of the spontaneous grasp of pattern--a capacity essential to perception and intelligence.”

Made Matter Today Differences Consciousness Essentials Computer Perception Capacity Intelligent Patterns Perceive What Matters Incapable Spontaneous

Book:Visual Thinking

Source: Visual Thinking

“Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.”

People Different Differences Perception Shadow Different Peoples Similarity Resemblance

Book:Pale fire

Source: Pale fire

“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 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

“The big difference is, as a man, I can go to a bar at two in the morning and people will be like "He's just a fun guy! That's cool that he can balance all these things." But if you see a person that you know who has two young kids and is a mom, there's no way those perceptions are the same. It's like "Oh, there must be a problem." That's usually what women face.”

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Author:Robert Greene

“The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way: internally generated activity is modulated by sensory input. In this view, the difference between being awake and being asleep is merely that the data coming in from the eyes anchors the perception.”

Way Eye Differences Views Secret Brain Activity Perception Nervous Data Awake Anchors Input Nervous System Sensory Cords Central Nervous System Spinal Cord

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be”

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Author:Creflo A. Dollar

“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.”

Men Challenges Differences Attitude Positive Blessing Perception Ordinary Excellence Warrior Curse Ordinary Man Shamanism Don Juan Juan Spiritual Warrior Warrior Spirit

Book:Tales of Power

Source: Tales of Power

“It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”

Source: True Believer

“The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure.”

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Book:The Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You

Source: The Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You

“In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.”

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence

“The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.”

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Book:Confessions of an S.O.B.

Source: Confessions of an S.O.B.

“For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.”

Humans Real Matter States Political Evil Differences Animal Views Common Perception Etc Good And Evil Household Unjust

Book:A New Aristotle reader

Source: A New Aristotle reader

“Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal.”

World Differences Space Perspective Perception Our World Infinity Magnificent Jewels Facets Vastness Vastness Of Space

Author:Fred Rogers

“Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.”

Has Beens Made Helping Seems Names Differences Perception Enormous Admire Psychological Benevolence

Author:Joanna Trollope

“The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various 'individuals', or groups of 'individuals', experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their "pursuit of happiness" to outright obliterating it.”

America Individual Differences Issues Groups Perception Impact Various Arguing Pursuit Pursuit Of Happiness Misperception

Author:Aberjhani

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