Perception Quotes - Page 11

• Beauty is about perception, not about make-up.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Perception Of Beauty, Makeup And Beauty

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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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• 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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• But that is the thing about miracles: it is perception that determines them as such, not facts.

  Camilla Gibb

  Miracle, Facts, Determine

  Camilla Gibb (2007). “Sweetness in the Belly”, p.18, Penguin

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• I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Damaged Goods, News, Way

  Mika Brzezinski (2011). “All Things at Once”, p.212, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.

  Henri Bergson

  House, Body, Action

  Henri Bergson (2012). “Matter and Memory”, p.150, Courier Corporation

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• 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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• It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness, expansion of our range of experiences, and enlargement of our sense of understanding and discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty , and understanding. Like literature generally, fiction is a form of discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty, and understanding. If it is all these things, the question of whether it is a legitimate use of time should not even arise.

  Leland Ryken

  Discovery, Self, Expression

  Leland Ryken (2003). “Realms of Gold: The Classics in Christian Perspective”, p.180, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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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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• Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need to.

  Matthew Good

  Perfection, Needs, Want

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• Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Real, War, Self

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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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• 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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• 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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• It seems like everybody's perception of me is very bipolar. To one group, it's overpaid, overrated; to another group, it's underpaid, underrated, underdog. It's funny to me because there's no real balance.

  Jeremy Lin

  Real, Bipolar, Balance

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• Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet.

  Wallace Stevens

  Real, Poetry, Degrees

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• I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.

  Conrad Black

  Issues, Credibility, Policy

  Conrad Black (2012). “A Matter of Principle”, p.517, Encounter Books

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• Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years ago for 60 thousand dollars. I could sell it today for 600. The illusion has become real and the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it.

  Oliver Stone

  Real, Years, Dollars

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• True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehension as well as physical perception. Yet how rarely we have either. We generally only glance at an object long enough to tag it with a name.

  Ross Parmenter

  Emotional, Names, Long

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• Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things.

  Raymond Arroyo

  Mother, People, Sometimes

  "Living With a True Mother". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. December 21, 2005.

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• And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Reality, Mirrors

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't.

  Eva Hoffman

  Vision, World, Becoming

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• Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.

  Mira Sorvino

  People, Looks, Sometimes

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• Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation, and if we try to become less so, we may accept a definition that confines the definition of small wins to narrower issues than is necessary.

  Karl E. Weick

  Mean, Winning, Issues

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• I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

  Jonathan Ames

  Self, People, Shy

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