Best perception & impression Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Nature, the sun itself, produces color effects... instantaneously. The impression of these evanescent visions is what we make desperate attempts to catch and fix by any means at hand. At such moments I am unconscious of materials, of style, of rules, of everything that intervenes between my perception and the object or idea perceived.”

Mean Ideas Moments Hands Vision Sun Effects Style Objects Produce Color Materials Perception Impression Desperate Unconscious

Author:Joaquin Sorolla

“The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.”

Reason Artist Special Elements Perception Opposites Impression Objectives Tendencies

Book:An Outline of Philosophy

Source: An Outline of Philosophy

“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

“Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.”

Mind Hard Science Death Desire Dying Perception Flesh Senses Impression Release Puppets Impermanence

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Companies made these decisions about encryption when they were finding it very difficult to sell their products overseas because the [Edward] Snowden disclosures created the impression that the U.S. government was inside this hardware and software produced by them. They needed to do something to deal with the perception.”

Made Government Difficult Decision Deals Company Products Needed Findings Perception Sells Impression Software Hardware Disclosure Snowden Encryption

Author:Michael Morell

“The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.”

Giving Should Writing Made Enough Stories Imagination Pleasure Perception Spring Impression

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“The visual does seem to me the most thoroughly grasped and recorded among my impressions; sight seems to be my principal sense organ, and "seeing" supplies the key metaphors for reporting the perception.”

Doe Seems Seeing Keys Perception Sight Metaphor Impression Visuals Organs Principal Supplies

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“There is an enormous thrust in our time to have a simple answer. And that simple answer is that all depends on Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve. And Alan, who is an old acquaintance of mine, is a marvelous performer in the impression he gives of enormously great perception.”

Giving Simple Answers Mines Depends Perception Enormous Impression Our Time Performers Reserves Marvelous Acquaintance Thrust Federal Reserve

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.”

Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

“Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.”

Mind Humans Animal Creation Perception Concepts Impression Humankind Arbitrary Identical Totality

Book:The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

“Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.”

Certain Objects Perception Complexes Impression Attributes Multitudes Conjunctions

Book:A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

“On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.”

Hands Perception Concepts Impression Justification Associates Totality

Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.”

Inspirational Sometimes Reality Behinds Products Perception Impression Brands Collectives Branding Personal Branding

Author:Elon Musk

“Birth Matters... It matters because it is the way we all begin our lives outside of our source, our mother's bodies. It's the means from which we enter and feel our first impression of the wider world. For each mother, it is an event that shakes and shapes her to her innermost core. Women's perceptions about their bodies and their babies' capabilities will be deeply influenced by the care they receive around the time of birth.”

Source: Birth Matters: How What We Don't Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us

“He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.”

Giving Memories Perception Impression Quintessence

Book:The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Ten Volumes: Literary and political addresses

Source: The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Ten Volumes: Literary and political addresses

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