Best perception & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you saw things as they really were, you would be happy automatically.”

Ifs Mind States Would Be Able Happiness Saws Buddhism Keys Perception State Of Mind Key To Happiness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Firsts Made Care Evil Alive Media Perception Music Is Interviews Trickery Necessary Evil

Author:Jack White

“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.”

Ifs Men World Doe Use Eye Beautiful Sun Doors This World Perception All Things Infinite Filled Paint Proportion Bags Worn Grapes Vines Misers Guinea Caverns Chinks Doors Of Perception

Author:William Blake

“The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.”

Ifs Men Should Heart Guy Given Common Cases Greater Perception Stress Philosopher Common Sense Tendencies Ideology Righteous Bad Guys Discouraged Worldview Insufficient Greater Good Devalue

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“You cannot see the Milky Way in New York City any more ... We risk the loss of our sensual perception. And if you lose those, naturally, you try to compensate by other stimulations, by very loud noises, or by bright lights or drugs.”

Ifs Way Trying Light Loses Loss Cities Risk New York Drug Perception Noise Sensual Loud New York City Stimulation Milky Way Bright Lights Loud Noises

Author:Rene Dubos

“Have you ever considered that your perception of reality could be wrong? If you haven't, this is a pretty good sign that it is.”

Ifs Inspirational Reality Havens Perception Perception Reality

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“If the world does not shine brightly, even just the physical, sensual perception after meditation, you have not meditated. You have sat and thought of things that were not real.”

Ifs World Doe Real Meditation Perception Shining Sensual Sat

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect.”

Ifs Trying Action Our Lives Buddhism Activity Perception Mindfulness Direct Our Actions Sense Perception

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“If you can die, you are confused because death is a perception of something ending and something else obviously beginning, which means we're still hung up on qualities.”

Ifs Mean Stills Death Dies Quality Perception Confused Hung

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“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

“If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.”

Ifs Way Wells Reality Perception Perception Reality

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Power is the thing that holds a band of perception together, and a band of perception is life for those who perceive in that band. If the band of perception were to go away, they would not exist.”

Ifs Together Power Band Perception Perceive Going Away

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we really reflect and discriminate, we'll find that all things are created by our perception, that all states exist within the mind.”

Ifs Mind States Perception Yoga All Things All State

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great believer that one should always challenge their own perception of where their boundaries lie. Everest seemed like an irrational challenge for an Egyptian, so I embraced it wholeheartedly. This feeling grew stronger when I realized that no Egyptian had attempted, let alone stood, on the roof of the world. The desire and pride of representing my country and raising the Egyptian flag on the highest points on earth has been with me ever since.”

“If the only vision we have of ourselves comes from the social mirror - from the current social paradigm and from the opinions, perceptions, and paradigms of the people around us - our view of ourselves is like the reflection in a crazy mirror room at the carnival.”

People Ifs Social Rooms Views Vision Opinion Crazy Perception Reflection Mirrors Currents Paradigm Carnivals

Book:Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

“Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them with detachment, not giving rise to grasping and rejecting discrimination, then this is virtually tantamount to awakening from the dream.”

Ifs Giving Dream Realizing Views Activity Perception Awakening Discrimination Detachment Awakened Grasping Rejecting

Author:Muso Soseki

“If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to be amiss, it is difficult to change that perception.”

Ifs Looks May Reality Difficult Perception Surface Perceive

Book:The Consequences Series: Box Set

Source: The Consequences Series: Box Set

“Humour very often consists of shrewd perceptions about people. It's usually fun at someone's expense. Nowadays if you're funny at anybody's expense they run to the UN and say, "I must have an ombudsman to protect me." You hardly dare have a shrewd perception about anybody.”

People Ifs Running Fun Humour Protect Perception Dare Expenses

Author:Robertson Davies

“We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself - he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life.”

Ifs Mind Doe Art Reading Mistake Virtue Judging Demand Perception Errors Critics Worth Reading

Author:Lionel Trilling

“Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.”

People Ifs Mind Wells Reality Might Perception Perception Is Reality Perceived Reality

Author:Steve Young

“Watching violence in movies or in TV programs stimulates the spectators to imitate what they see much more than if seen live or on TV news. In movies, violence is filmed with perfect illumination, spectacular scenery, and in slow motion, making it even romantic. However, in the news, the public has a much better perception of how horrible violence can be, and it is used with objectives that do not exist in the movies.”

Ifs Used Perfect Violence Television Tvs Perception News Program Horrible Objectives Spectators Spectacular Illumination Scenery Slow Motion Tv News Violence In Movies

Author:Steven Spielberg

“If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first to break away from ideology. To be without "isms," is to return to the individual and to return to viewing the world through the eyes of the writer, an individual who relies on his own perceptions and does not act as a spokesman for the people. The people already have rulers and election campaigners speaking in their name.”

“If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical language simply as a play upon words. Its full significance is revealed only when we approach it in a different manner, making our minds available to the new processes of inner perception which it suggests.”

Ifs Mind Different Play Seems Language Process Attitude Perception Approach Western Average Available Significance Usual Paradoxical Mental Attitude New Processes

Book:Living Zen

Source: Living Zen

“Remember, most of the things you think you need are ego trips designed to bolster your image and your perception of security.... You'll waste a lot of energy satisfying your ego only to find that, as soon as it's got what it wants, it ignores all your efforts and promptly nails another list of demands to your forehead. The ego will always try to force you to slave for its vision. I wouldn't stand for that BS if I were you.”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs Trying Remember Energy Force Effort Vision Security Demand Ego Waste Perception Slave Lists Satisfying Nails Foreheads Ego Trip

Author:Stuart Wilde

“Rush hour brings out the worst in some people. They make faces, gesture, yell, call names, bump you with their car, and lean on their horn over the slightest perception that they are right and you are wrong. If you take any of these signals seriously, you can be hurt every time you drive. If you cannot crack a joke within a few minutes of rear-ending someone on the freeway, don't go out there.”

People Ifs Faces Names Hours Hurt Minutes Worst Car Perception Jokes Driving Cracks Gestures Signals Horns Bumps Freeways Rush Hour

Author:Jennifer James

“If on one day we find the fast-spreading recognition of popular rights accompanied by a silent, growing perception of the rights of women, we also find it accompanied by a tendency towards a system of non-coercive education--that is, towards a practical illustration of the rights of children.”

Ifs Children Growing Rights One Day Perception Silent Practicals Tendencies Recognition Illustration

Book:Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed

Source: Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed

“In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?”

Ifs Thinking Life Believe Art Real Action Effort Focus Perception Management Real Life Impression Why Not Gaps Virtuous Trustworthy Persuading

Book:The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“An idea is like a play. It needs a good producer and a good promoter even if it is a masterpiece. Otherwise the play may never open; or it may open but, for a lack of an audience, close after a week. Similarly, an idea will not move from the fringes to the mainstream simply because it is good; it must be skillfully marketed before it will actually shift people's perceptions and behavior.”

People Ifs Needs May Ideas Play Moving Audience Week Behavior Perception Producers Mainstream Masterpiece Fringe Promoters

Author:David Bornstein

“If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.”

People Ifs Trying Please Perception Expectations Mad Preoccupation

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“I know I shall not live very long. But why is that so sad? Is a festival more beautiful because it lasts longer? My sensuous perceptions grow sharper, as if I were supposed to take in everything with the few years that will be offered to me ... And now love will still blossom for me before I depart, and if I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair.”

Ifs Knows Years Long Stills Hands Lasts Beautiful Three Grows Flower Hair Perception Life And Death Festivals So Sad Sensuous

Author:Paula Modersohn-Becker

“If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.”

People Ifs Reality Consciousness Known Knowledge Television Tvs Perception Mass Being True Acknowledge Collectives Fragments True Knowledge Collective Consciousness Perception Is Reality

Book:Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television

Source: Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television

“I think since I'm not particularly well-known as myself, it's funny all the different perceptions people have of me. Like, if someone's only seen me in 'Death Proof,' they think I'm sort of a ditzy girl who says stupid things and wears revealing outfits all the time.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Different Girl Known Stupid Perception Proof Well Known Revealing Stupid Things Outfits Ditzy Different Perceptions

Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead

“The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . .”

Ifs Way Soul Reason Growth Alive Movement Perception Plant Connected Intellect Instance Decay Distinguished Nourishment Spatial

Author:Aristotle

“People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.”

People Ifs Soul Enough Values Mistake Moral Serious Higher Perception Ordinary Dignity Technique Idiot Sensitive Bitterness Scream Ordinary People

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while theyre going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.”

Ifs Doe Happens Can Do Imagination Brain Seeing Involved Activity Perception Hearing Active Imagery Hallucinations Autonomous

Author:Oliver Sacks

“The mystical perception (which is only "mystical" if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is remarkably consistent in all ages and all places. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux...have the mind screens knocked away to see there is no real edge to anything, that in the endless interpenetration of the universe, a molecular flow, a cosmic energy shimmers in all stone and steel as well as flesh.”

“Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.”

Ifs Type Activity Perception Gaps Layers Sequence

Author:Douglas Coupland

“The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.”

Ifs Light Eye Color Perception Perceive Surround

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Each of our cells is a living entity, and the main thing that influences them is our blood. If I open my eyes in the morning and my beautiful partner is in front of me, my perception causes a release of oxytocin, dopamine, growth hormones - all of which encourage the growth and health of my cells. But if I see a saber tooth tiger, I'm going to release stress hormones which change the cells to a protection mode. People need to realize that their thoughts are more primary than their genes, because the environment, which is influenced by our thoughts, controls the genes.”

“We can conceive a thinking being to have either many or few perceptions. Suppose the mind to be reduced even below the life of anoyster. Suppose it to have only one perception, as of thirst or hunger. Consider it in that situation. Do you conceive any thing but merely that perception? Have you any notion of self or substance? If not, the addition of other perceptions can never give you that notion.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Mind Self Situation Perception Notion Hunger Substance Thirst Oysters

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature: Illustrated

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Illustrated

“There is no one kind of thing that we 'perceive' but many different kinds, the number being reducible if at all by scientific investigation and not by philosophy: pens are in many ways though not in all ways unlike rainbows, which are in many ways though not in all ways unlike after-images, which in turn are in many ways but not in all ways unlike pictures on the cinema-screen--and so on.”

Ifs Way Kind Different Philosophy Turns Numbers Perception Screens Perceive Cinema Pens Different Kinds Investigation Rainbow

Author:J. L. Austin

“Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness.”

Ifs Knows May Energy Know How Meditation Minutes Flower Walking Ten Perception Mindfulness Sitting Anger Twenties Embrace Come Up Following Breathing True Nature Walking Meditation

Author:Nhat Hanh

“In Zen Buddhism, the greater your doubt, the greater will be your enlightenment. That is why doubt can be a good thing. If you are too sure, if you always have conviction, then you may be caught in your wrong perception for a long time.”

Ifs May Long Time Doubt Greater Buddhism Perception Long Time Enlightenment Good Things Caught Conviction Zen Buddhism

Book:Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Easyread Comfort Edition

“If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us - our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states. That is why the practice of meditation, looking deeply, is so important.”

Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition

“Rather, risk is a perception in each investor's mind that results from analysis of the probability and amount of potential loss from an investment. If an exploratory oil well proves to be a dry hole, it is called risky. If a bond defaults or a stock plunges in price, they are called risky. But if the well is a gusher, the bond matures on schedule, and the stock rallies strongly, can we say they weren't risky when the investment after it is concluded than was known when it was made.”

Ifs Mind Wells Made Loss Results Known Risk Amount Prove Perception Investment Investing Oil Holes Analysis Dry Investors Schedules Probability Plunge Default

Author:Seth Klarman

“Intuitive cognition of a thing is cognition that enables us to know whether the thing exists or does not exist, in such a way that, if the thing exists, then the intellect immediately judges that it exists and evidently knows that it exists, unless the judgment happens to be impeded through the imperfection of this cognition.”

Ifs Knows Way Doe Happens Judging Judgment Perception Intuition Intellect Imperfection Intuitive Cognition

Book:Philosophical Writings: A Selection

Source: Philosophical Writings: A Selection

“Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.”

Ifs Thinking Inspirational Joy Fun Knowing Position Hair Perception Dresses Oneself Corrections Makeup And Beauty Perception Of Beauty

Author:Kevyn Aucoin

“Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.”

Ifs Dark Answers Moral Power Perception Remains Active Faculty Phenomenon Observers Brutes Corresponding

Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet, obviously, there are things for which the adage holds. Perception, trivially, to begin with. If elements of conscious awareness--pains, tickles, feelings of heat and cold, sensory qualia of colors, sounds, and the like--have any existence, it must consist in their being perceived by a subject.... This shows, of course, that such experiences are epiphenomenal, at least with respect to the physical world.”

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