Perception Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• 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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• 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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• The belief in God is not therefore based on the perception of design in nature. Belief in design in nature is based upon the belief in God. Things are as they are whether there is a God or not. Logically, to believe in design one must start with God. He, or it, is not a conclusion but a datum. You may begin by assuming a creator, and then say he did this or that; but you cannot logically say that because certain things exist, therefore there is a God who made them. God is an assumption, not a conclusion. And it is an assumption that explains nothing.

  Chapman Cohen

  God, Believe, Data

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• Most of us human beings tend to be parochial in our perceptions. What happens is that we have a very limited and narrow view of our self interest and do not adequately weight the price that has to be paid on the other side for any of these measures we are promoting.

  Alan Borovoy

  Self, Views, Weight

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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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• Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.

  Ben Affleck

  People, Credit, Actors

  ""Argo" director/star Ben Affleck grows smarter and more ambitious with each picture". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.chicagotribune.com. October 10, 2012.

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• I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Unique, Thinking, Careers

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• They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Believe, Nymphs, Tree

  "Renoir: My Father". Book by Jean Renoir, p. 137, 2001.

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• In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

  Alan Autry

  Cities, Momentum, Facts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn.

  Floyd Abrams

  Thinking, People, Police

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• Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

  Alva Noe

  Philosophy, Medicine, Psychology

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• Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

  Samuel Dash

  Needs, Ease, Information

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• The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.

  Johannes Peter Muller

  Philosophy, Medicine, Different

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• Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of dharma ("religion")-for it alone permanently uproots the cause of man's threefold suffering and reveals to him his true nature of Bliss. Self-realization is yoga or "oneness" with truth-the direct perception or experience of truth by the all-knowing intuitive faculty of the soul.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Kings, Yoga, Men

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2007). “God Talks With Arjuna”, p.750, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.

  Laozi

  Wise, Block, Names

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• I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

  Kenny G

  Real, Simple, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.

  Kevin Garnett

  Sports, Shoes, People

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• There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated certain people poorly at times. It was because of who I was. It was almost my strength. I came in all business. I tried to find ways to fit in with that demeanor, but it's not easy.

  Kirk Gibson

  People, Way, Fit

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• I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.

  Calvin Harris

  Sometimes, Pretending, Wells

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

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• The three branches of somaesthetics: the analytic study of the body's role in perception, experience, and action and thus in our mental, moral, and social life; the pragmatic study of methodologies to improve our body-mind functioning and thus expand our capacities of self-fashioning; and the practical branch that investigates such pragmatic methods by testing them on our own flesh in concrete experience and practice.

  Richard Shusterman

  Philosophy, Self, Practice

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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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• Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.

  James J. Gibson

  Philosophy, Color, Medicine

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• The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.

  Charles Jencks

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Medicine

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• Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Attachment, Political, Way

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