Perception Quotes - Page 20

• I think there's going to be a very sudden shift in people's perception of the International Space Station, because suddenly it's going to look much, much bigger than it already is.

  Marc Garneau

  Thinking, Space, People

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• An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the superiorly searching perception with which that world outside of man's contamination can be penetrated and the truth drawn out from it.

  Morris Graves

  Men, Artist, Design

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• A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom.

  Roz Savage

  Expectations, People, Desire

  "Oceans apart". Interview with Ed Douglas, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2007.

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• I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical.

  Erin O'Connor

  Loss, Thinking, Looks

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• The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Ties, Comic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.85, Harvard University Press

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• All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.

  Coventry Patmore

  Love, Sunshine, Men

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet to a hillside; and he has observed his own nature, one person's random or consequential chains of thoughts and feelings and perceptions, quite as well. (And this person, in the poems, is not the "alienated artist" cut off from everybody who isn't, yum-yum, another alienated artist; he is someone like normal people only more so - a normal person in the less common and more important sense of normal.)

  Randall Jarrell

  Cutting, Artist, People

  "Poetry and the Age" by Randall Jarrell, Vintage paperback, (p. 29), 1955.

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• Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.

  Aldo Leopold

  Weed, Real, Sea

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.155, Oxford University Press

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• Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.

  Sam Keen

  Memories, People, Giving

  Sam Keen (1992). “The passionate life: stages of loving”, Harper San Francisco

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• When we say 'time', I believe we mean at least two things. We mean changes. And we mean something unchangeable. We mean something that moves . but against an unmoving background. And vice versa.Animals can sense changes. But consciousness of time involves the double sense of constancy and change. Which can only be attributed to those who give expression to it. And that can only be done through language, and only man has language.The perception of time and language are inextricably bound up with one another.

  Peter Høeg

  Believe, Moving, Mean

  Peter Høeg (2013). “Borderliners: A Novel”, p.253, Macmillan

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• I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.

  Norman Mailer

  New York, Motivation, Roots

  Norman Mailer (2013). “An American Dream: A Novel”, p.14, Random House

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• The dice cannot read their own spots.

  Frank Herbert

  Dice, Spots

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.166, Penguin

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• From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Views, Becoming, Royal

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• Sculpture is a series of 3-dimensional shapes which, while fitting together, cause the perception of lines to the viewer, even where they do not exist.

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Together, Sculpture, Shapes

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• If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to be amiss, it is difficult to change that perception.

  Aleatha Romig

  Reality, Looks, May

  Aleatha Romig (2013). “The Consequences Series: Box Set”, p.98, Romig Works LLC

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• Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls.

  Richard Attias

  Girl, Hero, Athlete

  "Sport: Bridging the Gender Gap" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left.

  Chris Murray

  Thinking, Two, Numbers

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• Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Expression, Play, Language

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• When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes them - without distortion which would mar their exact significances - into an intense expression of his perceptions and ardors that they may constitute a revelation in the speech that he uses. It isn't what he says that counts as a work of art, it's what he makes, with such intensity of perception that it lives with an intrinsic movement of its own to verify its authenticity.

  William Carlos Williams

  Art, Men, Expression

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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• I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I have a good inner ear. I know pretty well how a thing is going to sound on the stage, and how it will play. I write to satisfy this inner ear and its perceptions. That's the audience I write for.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Play, Long

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• We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself - he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life.

  Lionel Trilling

  Art, Mistake, Reading

  "The Portable Matthew Arnold " by Lionel Trilling, Viking Press, 1949.

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• Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Lying, Boredom, Enough

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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• I have always wanted to play different kinds of stuff, but it's hard, first to find good material, and then to change people's perception of you so they'll let you do it. I mean, I would really like to play a poet, but once they get this notion of you as a street guy, it's hard to change that.

  Matt Dillon

  Mean, Play, People

  "Matter of Maturation? - Actor Swapping Rebellion for Responsibility in Recent Roles". Dayton Daily News, October 01, 1995.

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• What I desire of a poem is a clear understanding of motive, and a just evaluation of feeling A poem in the first place should offer us a new perception..bringing into being a new experience Verse is more valuable than prose for its rhythms are faster and more highly organised and lead to greater compexity.

  Yvor Winters

  New Experiences, Feelings, Understanding

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• The sexist perception that violence by anyone against only women is anti-woman while violence by a woman against only men is just generic violence creates a political demand for laws that are even more protective of women.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Law, Political

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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