Best perception & real Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not.”

Persons Real Perception Contrary Real Relationship

“It is the mind that weaves the dream of life, it convinces us that what we see is what is apparent and what is real, and that there's nothing else outside of our perception.”

World Mind Real Dream Buddhism Perception Convince Other Worlds Convince Us

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it, providing it with a foundation of real knowledge and removing its former preconceptions as though removing scales from eyes, as happened in the case of St. Paul (cf. Acts 9:18). For an understanding of Scripture that does not go beyond the literal meaning, and a view of the sensible world that relies exclusively on sense perception, are indeed scales, blinding the soul's visionary faculty and preventing access to the pure Logos of truth.”

“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

“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

“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

“There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus annoyance. To the viewer who has reached that level of awareness, my work is no longer abstract, but very real.”

Real Force Levels Emotion Awareness Perception Abstract Contrast Viewers Versus Living Things Opposing Annoyance

Author:Eugene J. Martin

“When we erase perception, then we erase that which perceives perception. The universe dissolves and we see that it was never real to begin with.”

Real Universe Perception Yoga Perceive Erase

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.”

Mind May Real Cities Quality Sea Lessons Perception Losing Scientist South Treasure Weed Farmers Cows Splits Fractions Pastures Redwoods Adventuring

Book:A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

“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

“Somebody said, "Well, you're going to write your definitive book about your life, biography." No, I'm not. I haven't done that. I wrote a book of letters which gives an insight into the real me as opposed to the public perceptions of me. But I'm convinced historians will figure out the things we got wrong and hopefully the things we got right.”

Giving Writing Wells Said Book Real Done Havens Figures Perception Letters Insight Convinced Hopefully Historian Biographies Real Me

Author:George H. W. Bush

“It's pretty exciting to take real people living in the real world, their opinions, and have people have to react to that. As opposed to their perceptions of what people are thinking, which are often very different.”

People Thinking World Different Real Opinion Perception Exciting Real World

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“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.”

“While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.”

Want Real Moments Wisdom Might Reading Understanding Study Meditation Listening Perception Direct Mere Accomplish Technique Realization Being Real Accumulation

Author:H. E Davey

“The Four Reliances. First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words; Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher; Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation; And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on judgmental perceptions.”

Mind Firsts Real Spirit Teacher Four Teaching Personality Pure Perception Essence Thirds Buddhist Rely Interpretation Fourth Superficial Reliance Judgmental Real Wisdom

Author:Gautama Buddha

“American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.”

Real Vision Class Amount Perception Disaster Familiar Decline Ruling Apocalyptic

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?”

Should Real Action Imagination Perception

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give them proper credit and that's not true anymore - it used to be. A lot of jazz musicians would get respect in Europe.”

Giving Stills Real Used Culture Perception Musician Europe Jazz Credit Used To Be American Culture Jazz Music Jazz Musician

Author:Andrew Bird

“Everyone brings their own perceptions when reading a book about a real person. At the end they will take away whatever they wish.”

Persons Book Real Ends Reading Wish Perception Real Person

Author:Patricia Montandon

“I don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a line funny just by, I don't know, some extra-sense perception. I only know character and emotion and real acting; that's all I know how to do.”

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Author:John C. Reilly

“Am I a fruitcake? I don't know. Perception is reality, so if I sit here and say, "I'm not a fruitcake, I'm a lemon cake," it doesn't matter. What you see me as in your world is what I am; it doesn't matter what I am - do you know what I mean? To me, I know what my real problems are - and they're certainly not about cake. And that's just the way it is.”

Ifs Knows World Way Mean Real Matter Problem Reality Perception Do You Know Cake Lemons Real Problems Fruitcake Perception Is Reality

Author:Macy Gray

“That peace that we're after, lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself. You can join the game, fight the wars, play with form all you want, but to find real peace, you have to let the armor fall.”

Want War Real Play Form Lying Fall Fighting Games Effort Personality Perception Invention Disguise Armor Perception Of Others

Author:Jim Carrey

“Thought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you are think-ing you are thing-ing. Thought does not report things, it distorts reality to create things, and as Bergson noted, "In so doing it allows what is the very essence of the real to escape." Thus to the extent we actually imagine a world of discrete and separate things, conceptions have become perceptions, and we have in this manner populated our universe with nothing but ghosts.”

Thinking World Doe Real Reality Universe Bits Imagine Perception Essence Ghost Reports Conception Discrete

Author:D.T. Suzuki

“Beautiful women, wealth, sensations, celebrity, substances capable of distorting my perception, and even forcing my body into positions ready for the covers of important yoga magazines - I pursued them all, some wholeheartedly, but none would satisfy my real longing.”

Important Real Body Beautiful Wealth Position Ready Perception Capable Yoga Longing Magazines Substance Sensations Beautiful Women Pursued Wholeheartedly

Author:Rod Stryker

“If we look at the Gulf War, the same is also true. Indeed, my work on the logistics of perception and the Gulf War was so accurate that I was even asked to discuss it with high-ranking French military officers. They asked me: 'how is it that you wrote that book in 1984 and now it's happening for real?' My answer was: 'the problem is not mine but yours: you have not been doing your job properly!'”

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Author:Paul Virilio

“Asleep vision (dreaming) is perception that is not tied down to anything in the real world; waking perception is something like dreaming with a little more commitment to what's in front of you.”

World Littles Real Dream Vision Fronts Perception Commitment Real World Waking Tied

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“I know perception is reality in politics and I know how it looks, but the reality is Democrats lost the election and what they thought it was gonna be, a landslide with the best candidate they could have ever nominated, Hillary Clinton, look at the rejection. The rejection is real. They're creating a Fantasy Island world in which none of this happened. And that's where they're choosing to live. That's not healthy, folks.”

World Real Reality Fantasy Healthy Perception Election Clinton Democrat Rejection

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share our perceptions and feelings. It creates a culture of individualism and exchange even though the real society doesn't promote it. There isn't a single Chinese university that can invite me to give a talk. Even though I know there are many students who would like to hear what I have to say.”

Giving Real Feelings Culture Individual Share Students Internet Perception Chinese Individualism

Author:Ai Weiwei

“The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.”

Real Painting Perception Viewers Real Change

Author:Arthur Smith

“Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.”

Art Real Reality Certain Individual Difficult Love Is Moral Morality Perception Discovery Essence Oneself Realization Real Love

Author:Iris Murdoch

“What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light shining in a dark corner. Our ability to shift our perceptions and seek creative alternatives to the conondrums of modernity is in direct proportion to our empathy. Can we imagine, witness, and ultimately feel the suffering of another?”

Feels Real Light Suffering Dark Ability Creative Imagine Awareness Perception Empathy Direct Shining Corners Focused Witness Alternatives Proportion Modernity

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives--we are each of us unique.”

Ifs Knows Men Different Real Stories Feelings Action Asks Wish Perception Unique Narrative Our Thoughts Biographies Discourse Our Actions Narration

Author:Oliver Sacks

“The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.”

Men Real Lying Greatness Perception Proof Chiefs Holmes Smallness

Book:The Sign of Four

Source: The Sign of Four

“The best learners... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.”

Real Challenges Education Teach Struggle Learning Teacher Imagine Teaching Worst Perception Intellectual Intelligence Learners Bad Teacher

Book:Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher

Source: Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher

“There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.”

Real Moments Shows Pleasure Perception Regard Victim Silent Bullying Bully

Author:Thornton Wilder

“My paintings are inspirational for they allow the observer to experience infinite viewpoints and perceptions. They are not abstract for they represent what is actually more real than what our eyes are able to see. They allow the viewers to be inspired by taking their own perception beyond their senses and their surroundings.”

Art Real Inspiration Eye Able Painting Perception Infinite Inspired Senses Abstract Viewers Observers Surroundings Viewpoints Be Inspired

Author:Freydoon Rassouli

“There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.”

Ideas Real Moon Perception Senses Grass

Author:Jane Campion

“All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction.”

World Writing Real Fiction Five Perception Details Senses Rely Real World Accumulation Five Senses

Author:Rohinton Mistry

“I've actually never been taken on a date in my whole life. I have never had a one-night stand. I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not. I get kind of emotionally involved very quickly, and I'm not going to spend time with someone unless I love them. But it's not hard for me to fall in love.”

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Author:Sienna Miller

“The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is not, strictly speaking, manufactured in the brain; it is received by the brain, like any 'real' sense datum, and the patient act in response to this to-him-very-real perception of reality in as logical a way as we do to our sense data. In any way to suppose he only 'thinks he sees it' is to misunderstand totally the experience of psychosis.”

Source: The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings

“Perception is real, truth is not. I'm not fighting for money and possessions. I'm fighting for something more precious. I pray that as we enter the cyber age -- the Age of Transparency -- the facts and the truth will out.”

Real Facts Age Fighting Praying Truth Is Perception Possession I Pray Transparency Cyber Real Truth

Author:Imelda Marcos

“Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free that can look and understand immediately. Freedom implies really, doesn't it, the total emptying of the mind. To completely empty the whole content of the mind — that is real freedom.”

“In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true. This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow. It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one's deepest integrity.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Mean Doe Real Feelings Desire Order Choices Given Goal Interest Loses Integrity Sorrow Perception Stronger Feel Good Bliss Bad Things Yearning Feel Better

Author:Adyashanti

“Perception is real even when it is not reality.”

Real Reality Perception

Author:Edward de Bono

“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

“If Christians could be trained to provide solid evidence for what they believe and good answers to unbelievers’ questions and objections, then the perception of Christians would slowly change. Christians would be seen as thoughtful people to be taken seriously rather than as emotional fanatics or buffoons. The gospel would be a real alternative for people to embrace.”

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Book:On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision

Source: On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision

“Any perception can connect us to reality, properly and fully. What we see doesn't have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.”

Real Reality Quality Principles Magic Perception Appreciate Something Real

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings

“One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.”

Thinking Men Different Real Women Fantasy Learning Seeing Directors Perception Men And Women Cinema Filmmaker Movie Portraying Portrayal Real Women Women Right

Book:Jane Campion: Interviews

Source: Jane Campion: Interviews

“The 2014 election has given the GOP the rare opportunity to retroactively redeem its brand. The conventional perception, incessantly repeated by Democrats and the media, is that Washington dysfunction is the work of the Party of No. Expose the real agent of do-nothing. Show that, when Harry Reid can no longer consign House-passed legislation to oblivion, Congress can actually work.”

“We pursue modernity in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her and she disappears immediately: it was just a little air. It is the instant, that bird that is everywhere and nowhere. We want to trap it alive but it flaps its wings and vanishes in the form of a handful of syllables. We are left empty-handed. Then the doors of perception open slightly and the other time appears, the real one we were searching for without knowing it: the present, the presence.”

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