Perception Quotes - Page 10

• Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

  Penelope Lively

  Past, Suits, Endless

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• A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity. It creates in the mind of the prospect the perception that there is no product on the market quite like your product.

  Al Ries

  Successful, Mind, Like You

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• Human perception is literally incarnation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Incarnation, Humans

  Howard Rollin Patch, Walter J. Ong, Marshall McLuhan (1954). “Christian humanism in leters”

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• Perception is a powerful tool.

  Shannon Lee

  Powerful, Tools

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• I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.

  Ernst Toller

  Mean, Months, Ends

  Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”

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• The Jewish Talmud says that the righteous peoples have an equal place in paradise. The Christians and Muslims agree in rejecting that; they claim that they are the fortunate recipients of God's final message and those who accepted will go to heaven and those who rejected go to hell. So there is a long struggle between the Dar al-Islam and the Dar al-Harb, which in effect was Christendom. This was the perceived enemy. And this has inevitably colored the perception of everything else.

  Bernard Lewis

  Christian, Struggle, Long

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• I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That's not my family's fault; it was my perception.

  Willie Aames

  Brother, Misunderstood, Different

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Understanding, Levels

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• Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.

  George Clinton

  Destiny, Perspective, News

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• Light and color are closely linked. The colors can make a crucial change in nature, if you switch from daylight to artificial light or just from strong to weak illumination. In addition, color perception is affected by the material structure. Even if a piece of textile can have the same color as a shiny enamel plate, then they will act completely different.

  Verner Panton

  Strong, Light, Illumination

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• We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound perception of what is at stake.

  Van Jones

  Change, Profound, Understanding

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.

  David Hume

  Different, Movement, May

  David Hume, Thom Chittom (2004). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: And Selections from a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.200, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

  Talcott Parsons

  Language, Gloss

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• Our perception of time is indeed our reality.

  Brigid Schulte

  Reality

  Brigid Schulte (2014). “Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time”, p.33, Macmillan

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• The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. Albert Einstein It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

  Anais Nin

  Art, Giving, Magic

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• In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Stories, World, Graphs

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail”, p.141, Vintage

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• The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

  Kimbra

  Fun, Mean, Play

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• What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.

  A. C. Benson

  Beauty, Uplifting, Song

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• Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.

  Willa Cather

  Miracle, Turns, Surround

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• A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work through character, so helping the reader to feel close to fictional characters is the gate through which we have to usher the reader.

  Caryl Phillips

  Reading, Writing, Character

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• Freed from the boundaries of time and space, I co-ordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be. My way leads towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.

  Dziga Vertov

  Space, World, Want

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• The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me.

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Humble, Thinking, People

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• Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.... it is to assist Nature in moving the affections... the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature.

  William Wordsworth

  Art, Moving, May

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.3779, Delphi Classics

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• Your direction is a result of your perception.

  Todd Duncan

  Results

  Todd Duncan (2002). “High Trust Selling: Make More Money in Less Time with Less Stress”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• This perception that the only people that come to Crown are helpless victims and we are just sitting there preying on them, you know, I reject that absolutely and that does upset me. And I think that that is, you know, that is a spin line from the latte set, which is completely wrong.

  James Packer

  Thinking, People, Upset

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