“In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously.” PeopleThinkingCultureTermPerceptionConcernedMusicalLegacy Author:Alan Bishop
“In my acquaintance with John Rawls, I found him to be a simple and honest man, who just by chance also happened to be the greatest moral philosopher of the twentieth century. I would like to think that I could emulate at least his modesty - his refusal to exaggerate his perception of himself and his place in the larger scheme of things - even if my work never compares with his in its importance.” IfsThinkingMenFoundChanceSimpleMoralHappenedCenturyHonestPerceptionImportancePhilosopherCompareModestySchemesAcquaintanceTwentieth CenturyRefusalHonest ManEmulate Author:Allen W. Wood
“I think that at its best, painting can be an act of juggling perceptions, a hall of mirrors. And it can be a bit confusing and scattering. But as the artist, as the man behind the velvet rope who controls the smoke and the mirrors and the way that things move in the painted space, what I want to do is to try my best to be a good witness.” ThinkingMenWayWantTryingMovingArtistBitsSpaceBehindsHe ManPaintingPerceptionMirrorsWitnessSmokeHallsConfusingRopeVelvetJuggling Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I agree and I disagree in the sense that I think that he [Donald Trump] has a fondness for autocrats, but at the same time, isn't he talking about like perception of defending your country.” ThinkingCountryTalkingTrumpPerceptionAgreeDisagreeFondness Author:Greg Gutfeld
“The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.” ThinkingTryingUseMinutesPerceptionDemocraticBoycott Author:Shimon Peres
“When you're an actress you are in a very specific position, cerebrally, I would think you know. You are a thinking person but you are in a certain perception of the world between really being conceptual and completely stupid. So you are in between, with a lot of intuition and instinct. And that's not completely being intellectual because I think intuition is more blurred. It comes from intuition. Instinct. More than really reasoning.” ThinkingKnowsWorldPersonsCertainStupidPositionPerceptionIntellectualInstinctIntuitionActressesReasoningPerception Of The WorldThinking Person Author:Isabelle Huppert
“I accept that friends of ours have decided that the President's non-strike has somehow impacted perceptions of us. But I believe they are dead wrong and I think the critics are dead wrong, and here's why. The President [Barack Obama] made his decision to strike. He announced his decision to strike publicly. And the purpose of the strike was to get the chemical weapons out of Syria. That's the purpose.” ThinkingBelieveMadePurposeI BelievePresidentDecisionAcceptingPerceptionWeaponsDecidedCriticsStrikesBarackChemicalsSyriaPresident Barack ObamaChemical Weapons Author:John F. Kerry
“I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they're huge or not, you know? I'm the kind of person who doesn't realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindPersonsShowsBigsArtistRealizingDealsFireStrangeHugePerceptionTunesEmbarrassingBig DealCocoonsItunesArcadesShow TunesArcade Fire Author:Anna Kendrick
“The terrorists, they have the wrong perception. They believe that the other group is trying to destroy them as a religion, as a civilization. So they want to abolish us, to kill us before we can kill them. And the antiterrorist may think very much the same way - that these are terrorists and they are trying to eliminate us, so we have to eliminate them first. Both sides are motivated by fear, by anger, and by wrong perception.” ThinkingWayWantTryingFirstsBelieveMaySidesGroupsCivilizationPerceptionTerroristMotivatedBoth SidesAbolish Author:Nhat Hanh
“I think it is less the limited amount of information than the filters that information about the Middle East must pass through before being fairly addressed in the mainstream media. In more intellectual and geopolitical terms, the perceptions of the region are distorted by a combination of Orientalism and the priorities of the state of Israel, including the refusal to discuss the relevance of Israel's nuclear weapons arsenal in the context of addressing Iran on its nuclear program.” ThinkingStatesTermMiddleMediaInformationAmountPerceptionWeaponsIntellectualProgramIncludingIsraelEastNuclearPrioritiesCombinationRegionsIranMainstreamMiddle EastNuclear WeaponsRelevanceRefusalArsenalFiltersMainstream MediaGeopoliticalOrientalism Author:Richard A. Falk
“I don't have much to complain about in life, because I've lived a very privileged existence and continue to. I just think, What if I didn't have that confidence or strength of character, and I was left with certain perceptions of what a woman's place is in the world?” IfsThinkingWorldCharacterCertainLeftExistencePerceptionComplainingWhat IfPrivilegedStrength Of Character Author:Laura Marling
“The reason we can't attain the highest level of knowledge while incarnate is that we can't then wholly escape the influence of the body (and so of perception and of certain desires that take us away from thinking properly); and that prevents us from understanding fully what forms are, which one must do in order to have the highest level of knowledge.” ThinkingReasonBodyFormDesireCertainOrderUnderstandingLevelsInfluencePerceptionHighest Author:Gail Fine
“Only in the 20th century, artists started taking the study of perception in a more humane way. They were thinking about the eye as being an instrument, the whole body as being a visual instrument. That sort of gave way a little bit with Cartesian - the "Cogito ergo sum" argument. It's not, "I think therefore I exist." It's, "I feel therefore I think therefore I exist."” ThinkingWayFeelsLittlesWholeBodyEyeArtistBitsStudyCenturyPerceptionLittle BitArgumentInstrumentsVisuals20th CenturyHumaneHumane Way Author:Vik Muniz
“A trouble with poetry is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes for granted an interest on the reader's part in the poet's autobiographical life, in the poet's memories, problems, difficulties and even minor perceptions. I try to presume that no one is interested in me. And I think experience bears that out. No one's interested in the experiences of a stranger - let's put it that way. And then you have difficulty combined with presumptuousness, which is the most dire trouble with poetry.” ThinkingWayTryingProblemInterestMemoriesTroublePoetBearsReaderPerceptionDifficultyStrangerGrantedPoetry IsMinors Author:Billy Collins
“If you make a film, that magic is not there, because you were there while shooting it. After writing a film and shooting it and being in the editing room every day, you can never see it clearly. I think other people's perception of your film is more valid than your own, because they have that ability to see it for the first time.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingFirstsFilmAbilityRoomsMagicPerceptionFirst TimeShootingEditingAbility To See Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I think Donald Trump is very alarmed and distressed over what Obama has done to the United States military and the perception of our standing and strength in the world.” ThinkingWorldDoneMilitaryPerception Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Bigotry doesn't care about state or regional lines. It's all over the place. But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it's about perception and balance sometimes I think.” ThinkingSometimesCareBalancePerceptionExcellentBigotry Author:Adrian Matejka
“I think it's important for people to understand that dance, movement, choreography is about an experience and entertainment but it's also about perception and a lens. So when we're talking about a Black female's experience through a Black female's lens, that's going to be totally different from a Black female's perspective through a Black male's lens.” PeopleThinkingImportantDifferentBlackPerspectivePerceptionChoreography Author:Camille A. Brown
“I think we need to reckon in a very serious way with the emotional content of news and the way that people perceive facts and their perception of their situation and to me I think the tabloid is like fundamentally an emotional form of journalism and that kind of emotional valence is what distinguishes it from the broad sheet.” PeopleThinkingKindSituationEmotionalSeriousPerceptionJournalismPerceive Author:Lydia Polgreen
“When people talk about imagination, they tend to think of fantasy or something made-up. But really imagination is a mode of perception. Which is maybe why so many artists have turned to the occult. Artists tend to feel like outsiders. Whether they are actually outsiders or not is also kind of irrelevant.” PeopleThinkingKindArtistImaginationFantasyPerceptionOutsidersIrrelevantOccult Author:Janaka Stucky
“Meditation is like taking a little milk and honey bath on your psyche. "Just let that go, no, you don't need that." Then you're like, "Oh, I didn't need that," and it's really just a perception shift. I think what happens in meditation is that you drop into the oneness, and you have this little reminder that that's the truth, and what we're doing here is this game ... this life experience gift.” ThinkingMeditationPerceptionLife Experience Author:Chrysta Bell
“The silver lining of Brexit and Trump is that it has undermined the perception that globalization is an unstoppable force, whether or not we think it is a good thing or a bad thing. There have always been losers and as well as winners in this process, and cultural minorities have been among the most vulnerable losers. Now that sizable numbers of people in the most advanced economies have made their grievances felt in a fashion that is hard to ignore.” PeopleThinkingEconomyFashionPerceptionGood ThingsVulnerableWinnerSilverLoserGlobalizationGrievanceUnstoppable Author:David Wong
“What caused 2008, in my opinion, is that people just didn't see the risk. These people that took on all this risk didn't think they had it - they thought they hedged it all away. As long as there's a perception of risk, and a culture of looking for risk, it's going to be hard to deflate us.” PeopleThinkingLongCultureOpinionRiskPerceptionRisk It Author:John Manley
“It's difficult not to color our perception of author's product with his personality. There are so many examples of this. What do we think of Ezra Pound - clearly a great poet and clearly kind of an asshole? You can say the same thing about Louis-Ferdinand Céline, who clearly was a Nazi sympathizer, and yet one of the great writers of the 20th century. It is tough, but there are enough examples around where we have to somehow find a way of separating the work from the artist and seeing what there is to see in the work, while also condemning the thoughts we see in the man.” ThinkingMenKindEnoughArtistDifficultHe ManPoetPersonalityPerceptionToughNazi20th CenturyGreat WritersGreat Poet Author:Salman Rushdie
“A work of visionary art can shock a person out of their normal thinking patterns and help them to see the world in a new way, helping them to transfigure their perception of reality. Obviously, it's only one of many potential catalysts to healing and transformation, but I think it can be a significant one.” ThinkingWorldArtHelpingRealityHealingPerceptionTransformationSignificant Author:Alex Grey
“I always just wanted to have the wherewithal to make another record. I never really dreamt of fortune or fame, because it seemed so unlikely. I'm much more interested in people's perceptions of me than what my life is really like. It appears that some people think it's all cocaine and caviar for Okkervil River. And it's not. I'm making a little bit more than I was making at the video store right now.” PeopleThinkingFamePerceptionCocaine Author:Will Sheff
“I think the term "interbeing" has cropped up in a lot of places. It's in the atmosphere, because it's just so true, and the time for that truth to be revealed to mass society is here. It's like in those French bakeries where they don't need to add yeast to the dough, because the yeast is so ambient in the air that the dough gets quickened whether or not you add yeast to it. Many people, even without doing a whole lot of study and reading, are coming to the same kinds of conclusions and perceptions about the world as I am.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindReadingTermStudyPerceptionConclusionAtmosphere Author:Charles Eisenstein
“I think where you're born brings a history with it - a cultural history, a mythical history, an ancestral history, a religious context - and certainly influences your perception of the world and how you interpret everyday reality.” ThinkingWorldRealityReligiousInfluencePerceptionEveryday Author:Deepak Chopra
“I'm especially interested in what I call practitioner criticism, which is when people who practice an art form start writing about it on blogs. I think that's an immensely important development. I want to see much, much more of that. People who make music who are verbally articulate. And not all musicians are verbally articulate. But those who are should be encouraged to write about what they do and their perception of what other people do. It makes the discourse smarter.” PeopleThinkingWritingArtImportantPerceptionMusicianCriticismBe Encouraged Author:Terry Teachout
“The Democrat Party have no education in critical thinking or common sense or common sense perception. None of it. They just seethe when they hear this stuff because it's all creating knee-jerk reactions: "Racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe! Racist, sexist, bigot! Racist!" It's paralyzing us, folks, as a country. We are in a state of paralyses. These people are retarding our progress.” PeopleThinkingCountryPartyCommonProgressPerceptionDemocratCommon SenseRacistCritical ThinkingSexist Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I stopped reading articles about myself. Even if it's not bad, I think actively caring about people's daily perception of you makes you second-guess everything. I am very happily not paranoid right now.” ThinkingReadingPerceptionCaringParanoid Author:Taylor Swift
“In terms of other people's perception of me, that's their business. There are people who I have never met but, for whatever reason, I am certain that these people are jack-offs. I've never met Billy Joel, but I'm absolutely convinced he's an asshole. I can't justify that opinion, that's just what I think. But my opinion about Billy Joel isn't going to affect him in the slightest. In the same way, I am sure there are people out there who are completely convinced that I am an asshole, for whatever reason. They might even feel more justified than I feel about my presumptive opinion of Billy Joel.” PeopleThinkingReasonTermOpinionPerceptionJustifyJustified Author:Steve Albini
“Basically the job of a magician is to do impossible things that challenge the nature of the universe. And I think some magicians buy into that perception a little too much. These days that turns people off a little bit. I'm not a wizard. I don't have special powers. If I did, I would not be doing magic for a living!” PeopleThinkingUniverseChallengesImpossibleMagicSpecialPerceptionMagician Author:Justin Willman
“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.” ThinkingWorldUnderstandingInterestingActingStrugglePerceptionResponseExcitedInnocentReally Interesting Author:Mariel Hemingway
“When you get into recovery after some addiction you have to relearn a lot of perceptions, attitudes and self-awareness if you want to stay clean. You really do change. Change doesn't happen often but to a certain extent in some way, I think when you get into recovery and you stay there, you change.” ThinkingAttitudePerceptionAddictionRecovery Author:Shawn Colvin
“There's an all-enveloping destructiveness in Donald Trump's character and in his psychological tendencies. But I've focused on what professionally I call solipsistic reality. Solipsistic reality means that the only reality he's capable of embracing has to do with his own self and the perception by and protection of his own self. And for a president to be so bound in this isolated solipsistic reality could not be more dangerous for the country and for the world. He's not psychotic, but I think ultimately this solipsistic reality will be the source of his removal from the presidency.” ThinkingWorldMeanCountryCharacterRealityPresidentDangerousPerceptionCapableProtectionFocusedPsychologicalPsychoticRemoval Author:Robert Jay Lifton
“We enjoyed such amazing success on Sex and the City. You don't expect success on that level, it was such a big deal, and it was so intense and wonderful that it is hard for anything else to live up to it, quite frankly. So now I just try to have fun and work with interesting people. I think that there is a perception that certain films won't be popular. So it was great that The Devil Wears Prada did really well.” PeopleThinkingTryingFilmFunInterestingWonderfulPerceptionDevilIntenseHaving Fun Author:Kristin Davis
“Perception, after all, is not simply a matter of what you believe about yourself, it all encompasses what others think about you, and what has been thought of you historically. I say we can pay attention to those other dimensions of our identity - class, gender, sexual orientation, geographical region - while at the same time understanding how our historically produced racial identity continues to serve, or undercut us.” ThinkingBelieveUnderstandingAttentionIdentityPerceptionGenderPay AttentionAbout Yourself Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“I think Russia affected the perceptions and views of millions of voters at the last presedent election, we now know. I think that their intention coming from the very top with Vladimir Putin was to hurt me and to help Donald Trump.” ThinkingHelpingHurtPerceptionElectionIntentionHurt Me Author:Hillary Clinton
“To a certain extent all philosophers have been involved in a systematic questioning that undermines confidence and certainty. Philosophy as a whole unleashed skeptical forces which, outside of the tightly controlled environment of a rigorous philosophical debate, led a lot of people to throw their hands up in despair and think 'what's the point?'. A lot of the public perception of philosophy is that it leaves you with no answers, and more confused than you were at the beginning.” PeopleThinkingPhilosophyEnvironmentDespairPerceptionPhilosophicalPhilosopherDebateCertaintyConfusedQuestioningSkeptical Author:Julian Baggini
“The having of the ideas is quite otherworldly. And then the making of the art itself is quite scientific. It's a combination. L Doing figurative work or taking pictures, and looking at how light actually reflects and refracts on bodies, or how your perception of something changes based on distance. But I think the getting of the ideas, and having that space to just have the ideas, is otherworldly, and requires a clear mind.” ThinkingMindArtPerceptionDistanceThings ChangeTaking Pictures Author:Chitra Ganesh
“If you had the perception that you are very stressed out then your grey matter was fully 20 per cent smaller in volume than people who did not have that same feeling. This is the grey matter in your prefrontal cortex: It controls thinking, learning, planning, decision-making. That matters because when we are feeling more stressed, that is when we are at our most vulnerable in our inability to think our way out of it.” PeopleThinkingFeelingsPerceptionPlanningVulnerableStressedStressed Out Author:Brigid Schulte
“A brand is a person's perception. Of course, it makes marketers nervous to think that marketing is out of their control, but that's why the discipline of branding has emerged.” ThinkingDisciplinePerceptionMarketingNervousBranding Author:Marty Neumeier
“What is fantastic for me is that the Romantic movement comes out as a counter balance to everything that has been accumulating since the Age of Reason. I think the downfall of imagination as a genre or as a perception starts with the Age of Reason, which says everything else that came before us, all those superstitions, all those myths, are childish.” ThinkingReasonAgeImaginationBalancePerceptionMythFantasticDownfall Author:Guillermo del Toro
“I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.” ThinkingWellsAbleGirlCollegePerceptionMathHacks Author:Danica McKellar
“I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.” PeopleThinkingPerception Author:Joyce Meyer
“A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.” ThinkingPersonsMorningFamePerceptionGet UpGood Morning Author:Van Morrison
“There are no facts, only interpretations.” ThinkingFactsRealityTruthPerspectivePerceptionHumorousWittyThriveInterpretationEncouraging Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.” ThinkingInspirationalMotivationalViewsAttitudeVisionKnowledgeSeeingPositivePositive ThinkingPerspectiveConfidencePerceptionInnovationMy FavoritePositivityAppearancePoint Of ViewNovelistsPositive AttitudeOur WorldSpiritual WisdomTraveledBeing HappyShrinksRise AboveRisk ItConflict ResolutionSeeing The WorldEssayistsPositive ThingsPositive Thinking And AttitudeReally AmazingPositive AffirmationsThinking Of YouPositive Attitude In LifeInspirational DreamPositive OptimisticPositive Attitude Towards LifeLove Is LifeBlind EyesReally LivingPositive Thinking In LifeThoughts And ThinkingWonder Of LifePerception Of The WorldPeople Don't ChangeWonder And MysteryReally AwesomeEnjoying My LifeSouls In LoveLove And FreedomFaveSocial InnovationPerspective On Things2 Word LovePossibility Of ChangeCollecting Things Author:Anais Nin
“I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.” PeopleThinkingTryingPerceptionMadnessDwelling Author:Kate Beckinsale