Perception Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• 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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• 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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• The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Thinking, Media, People

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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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• 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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• To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's dependence upon them and one's independence of them - is the ultimate hallmark of maturity: a perception as valid for institutions as for individuals.

  Ernest Kurtz

  Inspirational, Maturity, Giving

  Ernest Kurtz (2010). “Not God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous”, p.131, Hazelden Publishing

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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 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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• A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Art, Works Of Art, Audience

  "A life in cinema: Abbas Kiarostami" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2009.

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• Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and range of movement that can afford our sensory organs greater scope in giving us knowledge of the world. Besides augmenting our own possibilities of pleasure , such improved somatic functioning and awareness can give us greater power in performing virtuous acts for the benefit of others, since all action somehow depends on the efficacy of our bodily instrument.

  Richard Shusterman

  Philosophy, Skills, Medicine

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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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• 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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• I would never do anything that makes the perception of country music worse.

  Joe Nichols

  Country

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• I'm aware that success can overwhelm you. The perception of you can be elevated to such a status that it's not you any more.

  Chris Ofili

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• Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Thinking, Shoes, People

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• Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way to his spot on the stage. It's crucial not to blow it. It sets the tempo of the show; it affects everyone's perception of the band.

  Johnny Ramone

  Blow, Play, Light

  Johnny Ramone (2012). “Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone”, p.50, Abrams

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• The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.

  David Selby

  People, Way, Persons

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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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• 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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• 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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• Life is perception. We perceive through different parts of the body of the universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Body, Different

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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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• 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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