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“The problem a lot of writers have is that they really, really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be dictated by reader response. But if you're going to let other people make you feel good, you're going to end up feeling bad when they say the opposite. You've got to be a cultural stoic. Then you won't be devastated by people who respond negatively. Of course, the downside is that it sort of stops you from being able to enjoy people liking your work.”

“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

“I think my view is rather more radical than Pete Mandik's. Both of us want to show that colour perception doesn't transcend what can be conceptualized, but I don't think he goes so far as to deny that it doesn't involve different responses to all the discriminable surfaces.”

Thinking Want Different Shows Views Perception Response Deny Surface Radical Colour

Author:David Papineau

“I'm really excited to act again because when I started out, there was an innocent sort of perception of the world that was coming though me, and I think now through a lot of experience and life and understanding, I've come full circle to having a purer response to things. So my craft will be really interesting to work from this place because I think acting is about being in tune with yourself - or maybe the struggle to be in tune with yourself.”

Thinking World Understanding Interesting Acting Struggle Perception Response Excited Innocent Really Interesting

Author:Mariel Hemingway

“My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.”

Trying Mind Sometimes Feelings Happens Perception Response Perceive Justify Imperfect Echoes Sync

Author:John Piper

“Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions. Most emotions are responses to perception - what you think is true about a given situation. If your perception is false, then your emotional response to it will be false too. So check your perceptions, and beyond that check the truthfulness of your paradigms - what you believe. Just because you believe something firmly doesn't make it true. Be willing to reexamine what you believe.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Given Emotion Situation Emotional Willing Perception Response Checks Paradigm Truthfulness Emotional Response

Author:William P. Young

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

People Life Inspirational Inspiration Motivational Success Differences Achieve Perception Response Average

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

“Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response to terror is righteous anger, confidence in ultimate justice, a refusal to be intimidated.”

Ifs Reality Pain Grows Justice Perception Ultimate Response Terror Denied Righteous Defeated Refusal Intimidated Righteous Anger

Book:Velocity: A Novel

Source: Velocity: A Novel

“I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics.”

People Young Generations Youth Perception Response Marijuana Not Interested

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self in earthly joys will not recapture It amidst the gossamer charms of an astral world. There he merely accumulates finer perceptions and more sensitive responses to the beautiful and the good, which are one. It is on the anvil of this gross earth that struggling man must hammer out the imperishable gold of spiritual identity.”

Men World Self Earth Beautiful Spiritual Death Joy Existence Struggle Doors Identity Perception Gold Response Finals Immortality Sensitive Charm Gross Hammers Anvils

Book:Autobiography of a Yogi

Source: Autobiography of a Yogi

“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

“To quote a recent customer email, “I really appreciate your thoughtful and professional response. I don’t get that a lot from customer service. Usually, it’s scripted nonsense that makes it seem like I’ve done something wrong. You’ve single-handedly improved my perception tenfold. Someone there ought to give you a pay raise."”

Giving Done Seems Pay Ought Perception Appreciate Raises Response Customers Thoughtful Nonsense Email Appreciate You

Author:Matt Mickiewicz