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“A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first step, and then you have a kind of hard road of execution.”

Thinking Firsts Kind Art Hard Steps Perception Photography Art Is Photographer Painter First Steps Execution

Author:Jay Maisel

“It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.”

Ifs Thinking Want Running Careers Path Perception Hollywood Suicide What You Want Downfall

Author:Charlie Hunnam

“Our self-perception determines our behavior. If we think we’re small, limited, inadequate creatures, then we tend to behave that way, and the energy we radiate reflects those thoughts no matter what we do. If we think we’re magnificent creatures with an infinite abundance of love and power to give, then we tend to behave that way. Once again, the energy around us reflects our state of awareness.”

“I think there's a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures. There's really so much more to me than that.”

People Thinking Knows Looks Two Hours Hair Perception Dresses Magazines Makeup Know Me Glamorous Hair And Makeup

Author:Victoria Justice

“I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement with our will. It is strange to realize that even our own thoughts pass by like scenery out the window of a bus, a bus we took by accident while trying to get somewhere else. Most of the time, thinking is an autonomous process, something that happens outside of our control. This perception of machine-like quality of the self is something many people discover, then try to overcome, through meditation.”

Source: Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism

“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

“The mainstream perception that conservatives are close-minded and dogmatic while liberals are open-minded and free-thinking has it almost exactly backward. Liberal dogma is settled: The government should do good, where it can, whenever it can. That is President Obama's idea of pragmatism and bipartisanship: He's open to all ideas, from either side of the aisle, about how best to expand government and get the state more involved in our lives.”

“Self-reflection entails asking yourself questions about your values, assessing your strengths and failures, thinking about your perceptions and interactions with others, and imagining where you want to take your life in the future.”

Thinking Want Self Values Humility Perception Reflection Asking Interaction Self Reflection Thinking About You Assessing Interaction With Others Asking Yourself Questions

Author:Robert L. Rosen

“Day and night will not cease. Yet, you need not continue viewing them as opposites. There is no longer a need to think that night has the same power as day. There is just the power of light, with variations of intensity and interruption. Once the full scope of understanding is attained, duality fades away. Higher intelligence is manifested through integrated perceptions of wholeness which restore your recognition of the one spirit. The sons of God are those who do not explain life or manage it with dualistic concepts. The sons of God are those who seek to perceive wholeness in all things.”

Source: Love Without End: Jesus Speaks--

“When all mental activity around who you think you are or what you need for happiness is stopped, there is a crack in the authority of perception, in the structure of the mind. I invite you to enter through that crack. Come in through that opening. When you do, the mind is no longer filled with its latest self-definition. In that moment, there is only silence. And in that silence, it is possible to recognize absolute fulfilment: the truth of who you are.”

Thinking Mind Self Moments Wisdom Spiritual Silence Activity Authority Perception Absolutes Filled Structure Who You Are Definitions Opening That Moment Cracks Invites Fulfilment

Author:Gangaji

“The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.”

Thinking Reality Process Perception Mass Unlimited Scope Adjustment

Book:Illuminations

Source: Illuminations

“The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways. This is the point, reality is nothing, perception is everything.”

Thinking Reality Perception Cat Mice

Author:Terry Goodkind

“Well, I think I'm not a non-believer, and I'm not a believer. But, on the other hand, I couldn't give you a good enough reason why EVP doesn't exist. I don't know enough about it, so how could I say it's not true. Plus, a person's reality is a person's reality so that's your belief system. It's all perception anyway, isn't it.”

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Author:Michael Keaton

“This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness.”

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Author:Swami Vivekananda

“It would be frightening to think that in all the Cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning.”

Thinking Humans Would Be Life Is Destiny Equal Perception Happenings Human Life Cosmos Frightening Harmonious

Author:Mircea Eliade

“I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. Perhaps this is why in 1776, Thomas Paine used these words as a title for the most famous pamphlet ever written.”

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Author:Jack White

“I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false”

Thinking Humanity Perception Arts And Humanities

Author:Clifford Geertz

“I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.”

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Author:Samuel Alito

“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

“I think perception is important.”

Thinking Important Perception

Author:Jeff Gordon

“When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of 'symbolic images.' The first step to thinking is a painted vision of these inner pictures whose origin cannot be reduced only and firstly to the sensual perception but which are produced by an 'instinct to imagining' and which are re-produced by different individuals independently, i.e. collectively... But the archaic image is also the necessary predisposition and the source of a scientific attitude. To a total recognition belong also those images out of which have grown the rational concepts.”

Thinking Firsts Ideas Different Individual Attitude Vision Steps Source Perception Conscious Concepts Instinct Rational Recognition Sensual First Steps Symbolic

Author:Wolfgang Pauli

“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.”

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Author:Susan Blackmore

“Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you”

Thinking Needs Able Perception Need You

Author:Julian Assange

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

Source: Tempest-tost

“People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them, what good do they do?”

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Author:Eric Davis

“I think and hope I have changed the way we look at hats. They are no longer symbols of conformity but highly individual acts of rebellion. I am constantly challenging the perception of what a hat should be and what role it should play.”

Thinking Way Should Looks Play Individual Challenges Roles Changed Perception Symbols Hats Rebellion Conformity I Have Changed

Author:Philip Treacy

“People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making, responsibility and ethics that life throws up.”

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Author:Simon Blackburn

“Sarah Palin has admitted she tried marijuana several years ago, but she did not like it. She said it distorted her perceptions, impaired her thinking, and she's hoping that the effects will eventually wear off.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“Integrity is what you do behind closed doors or when you think nobody is watching. Integrity is the true essence of who you are, your beliefs and your values. Reputation is the public perception of who you are. It is how others view your integrity or strong moral principles.”

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Author:Erik Qualman

“Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.”

Thinking Believe Might Imagination Perception Effortless

Book:Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

Source: Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

“When the environment makes gender salient, there is a ripple effect on the mind. We start to think of ourselves in terms of our gender, and stereotypes and social expectations become more prominent in the mind. This can change self-perception, alter interests, debilitate or enhance ability, and trigger unintentional discrimination. In other words, the social context influences who you are, how you think and what you do.”

Source: Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences

“Many of you would like to take evil and step on it, destroying it like you would a bug. Squish, smash! Begone into another reality! This practice of eliminating human life because it is perceived as evil does you no good. In the end your history and experience are filled with war of one kind or another; humans fighting one another for the right to speak their truth and share their perception.And one human or another is always wanting to suppress someone else's ideas, someone else's thinking.”

Source: Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living

“The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.”

Thinking Feels Mind Moments Memories Brain Perception Connections Complexes Smell Setting Settings Recognition Going To Work Odor Polling Old Memories

Author:Lewis Thomas

“All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“This one question-'What do I know for certain?'-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it's meant to. You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true. Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.”

Source: The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment

“Thinking... is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas”

Thinking Ideas Eye Sound Perception Ears Perceive Colour Organs

Book:The Way of Initiation

Source: The Way of Initiation

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