Perception Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought such wondrous treasures-an unfailing fountain of intellectual enjoyment, where all may drink, and be awakened to a deeper feeling of the works of genius, and a keener perception of the beauty of our existence. For those whose days are all consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolities of fashion, unobservant of nature's loveliness, are unconscious of the harmony of creation

  Thomas Cole

  Fashion, Nature, Feelings

  Thomas Cole (1980). “The collected essays and prose sketches”

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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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• 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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• I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not.

  Sienna Miller

  Real, Persons, Contrary

  "Sienna Miller says she's changed her ways and she's happy to be single now". www.mirror.co.uk. August 03, 2009.

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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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• I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.

  Sade Adu

  Real

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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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• 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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• Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field. Existence only occurs through the act of perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Buddhism, Patterns

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• That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.

  Daniel Okrent

  Writing, People, Choices

  "It's curtains for Okrent". Interview with Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.

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• All the universes are bound together by a web, a matrix, which is our perception. And our perception actually has colors; it has bands. We call them bands of attention.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Color, Other Worlds

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• I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.

  Sean Parker

  Reality, Thinking, Wealth

  "Internet pioneer Sean Parker: 'I'm blazing a new path'" By Dan Simon, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2011.

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• There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way. It strictly depends upon perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Buddhism, Way

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• My own perception of cops was that they came into your neighborhood, they roughed up people that you loved for no reason and took them away. As a child you saw that.

  Sonja Sohn

  Children, People, Saws

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• Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

  Hedi Slimane

  Focus, Age, Gender

  "Hedi Slimane: putting the flounce into fashion" by Viv Groskop, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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• Some people get tired of continual perception of the finite universe. They feel the perception of the universe over and over in variant forms is kind of an unhappy condition, because it doesn't last.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Tired, Buddhism

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• Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Understanding, Drug

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• Our awareness creates life. Life does not exist independently of perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Buddhism, Doe

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• Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment.

  David Gemmell

  Simple, Views, Evil

  "No shades of grey" by David Gemmell, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2003.

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• Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Buddhism, Reality

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• Reality does appear to exist, there does appear to be birth, youth, people appear to have children. But all of it's a dream. These are isolated moments that are only connected by perception. There is no separation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Children, Buddhism

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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 on the spiritual path means you want to be a success in an existential sphere, not just on a social level.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Mean, Levels

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• The hand of the Creator is actively involved in every atom, every plant, every creature, and yourself, in every cell in your body.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Cells, Hands

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