“I have always wanted to play different kinds of stuff, but it's hard, first to find good material, and then to change people's perception of you so they'll let you do it. I mean, I would really like to play a poet, but once they get this notion of you as a street guy, it's hard to change that.” PeopleFirstsKindMeanDifferentHardPlayWantedGuyStuffStreetsPoetMaterialsPerceptionNotionDifferent Kinds Author:Matt Dillon
“Teenagers expressing this on a daily basis in the middle of the streets - you can't help but believe we are in the mind state of taking our losses and changing people's perceptions of us and our community. We are strong. Our families are tired of being hurt.” PeopleMindBelieveStatesHelpingStrongCommunityHurtLossStreetsMiddlePerceptionBasesTiredTeenagerOur FamilyOur CommunityBeing Hurt Author:Kendrick Lamar
“There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.” InspirationalChildrenLongPlayProblemScienceLostStreetsPerceptionSolvePhysicsLong AgoSensoryInner ChildChildren PlayingPlaytimeSensory Perception Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer
“Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that's all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingHelpingFeelingsFormYoungForceStreetsPerceptionPagesPressureSentencesYoung Writers Author:Don DeLillo
“We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.” PeopleWayUseTodayFightingCitiesEnemyPlansStreetsPerceptionWeaknessIraqTerroristAfghanistanInvitedTerrorist Attacks Author:George W. Bush
“Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic.” IfsThinkingWayImportantRealizingWalksTreeStreetsPerceptionMemes Author:Susan Blackmore
“I know many members of our community steer clear of Wall Street because of the perception that the stock market is risky, but I am convinced the biggest risk of all is not taking one.” KnowsGrowthCommunityClearRiskStreetsWallMembersPerceptionConvincedOur CommunitySteersBusiness Growth Author:Mellody Hobson
“I moved down the street like a cloud of awareness following a body that seemed simultaneously familiar and foreign. There was an incomprehensible attachment to that body, although it no longer felt like "mine". It continued to send out signals of its sensory perception, yet how or where those signals wwere being received was beyond comprehension.” BodyFeltConsciousnessStreetsAwarenessMinesPerceptionMovedCloudsFollowingFamiliarAttachmentSignalsComprehensionSensorySensory Perception Author:Suzanne Segal