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“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

“People wouldn't go on Facebook unless they wanted to share with groups of people. But there is this perception that you have been on a course to push people's information where it's visible across the Internet unless they do a bunch of stuff.”

People Has Beens Wanted Courses Stuff Groups Share Information Goes On Internet Perception Bunch Visible

Author:Walt Mossberg

“As a mode of perception that often becomes a style of life, paranoia weaves around the vulnerable self or group an air-tight metaphysic and world view. Paranoia is an antireligious mysticism based on the feeling or perception that the world in general, and others in particular, are against me or us. Reality is perceived as hostile. By contrast, the religious mystic experiences the ground of being as basically friendly to the deepest needs of the self. That which is unknown, strange, or beyond our comprehension is with and for rather than against us.”

World Needs Self Feelings Reality Religious Views Groups Air Style Particular Strange Perception Vulnerable Friendly Mysticism Contrast Hostile Comprehension Mystic Paranoia World View

Author:Sam Keen

“The terrorists, they have the wrong perception. They believe that the other group is trying to destroy them as a religion, as a civilization. So they want to abolish us, to kill us before we can kill them. And the antiterrorist may think very much the same way - that these are terrorists and they are trying to eliminate us, so we have to eliminate them first. Both sides are motivated by fear, by anger, and by wrong perception.”

Thinking Way Want Trying Firsts Believe May Sides Groups Civilization Perception Terrorist Motivated Both Sides Abolish

Author:Nhat Hanh

“The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.”

Country Purpose Interest Groups Perception Unique Flow Universal Pursue Legitimacy Small Groups Unesco Bihar

Book:Towards a new world: defining moments

Source: Towards a new world: defining moments

“Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly.”

People World Looks Said Different Reality Nations One Thing Groups This World Drug Perception Skins Towns Chaos Mess Desert Deceiving Perception Reality

Author:Ted Dekker

“But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of rejection, then the health of these institutions seems far more vulnerable than we think.”

Thinking Feelings Seems Powerful Groups Perception Capable Institutions Vulnerable Rejection Unconscious Primitive Stand Alone Activate

Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium. Friends was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a masters degree in comedy.”

“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