Perception Quotes - Page 32

• All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making us reassess our thoughts and feelings about how we relate to other people. There are always people who fear that and want to suppress that.

  John Boorman

  Art, People, Feelings

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.

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• Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of contemporary Korea and its diaspora. She guides us surely through the fallout of war, immigration, and financial crisis, always alert to the possibility of tenderness, transcendence, and even humor along the way. Lee is a writer who really understands loneliness, but her voice is so appealing, and her perceptions so wise, that we feel all the less lonely for knowing her characters and experiencing their lives.

  Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

  Wise, Lonely, War

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• While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.

  Thomas Keating

  Letting Go, Prayer, Practice

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• With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while theyre going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.

  Oliver Sacks

  Imagination, Brain, Doe

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• Music should be used for the perception of God, not jitterbugging.

  George Harrison

  Used, Should

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• I hate perception. There's far too much of it in football

  Sam Allardyce

  Football, Hate, Too Much

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• The mystical perception (which is only "mystical" if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is remarkably consistent in all ages and all places. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux...have the mind screens knocked away to see there is no real edge to anything, that in the endless interpenetration of the universe, a molecular flow, a cosmic energy shimmers in all stone and steel as well as flesh.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Real, Mind, Age

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• Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

  Elvis Costello

  Looks, Deceiving, I Can

  Song: Painted From Memory, Album: Painted From Memory, 1998

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• I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.

  M.I.A.

  Mirrors, Reflecting Back, Feels

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• Mrs. Lammle's manner changed under the poor silly girl's embraces, and she turned extremely pale: directing one appealing look, first to Mrs. Boffin, and then to Mr. Boffin. Both understood her instantly, with a more delicate subtlety than much better educated people, whose perception came less directly from the heart, could have brought to bear upon the case.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Silly, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.856, Charles Dickens

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• It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Interesting, Hopeful

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.21

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• He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Agony, Numbers

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.289

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• In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of the scene. .. This personal absorption is what we mean by 'style.' It is strange that we would choose so oddly surfacey a word - style - for this most soulful aspect of writing. We could, perhaps more exactly, call this relation between consciousness and its subject 'integrity.' What else is the articulation of perception?

  Patricia Hampl

  Integrity, Writing, Mean

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• How the world perceives you is largely out of your control.

  Sheryl Crow

  World, Perceive

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• Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current state of consciousness.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Space, Events, Consciousness

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• There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Cognition, Approval, Dashing

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• The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Dark, Light

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• You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.

  James Salter

  Writing, Ideas, People

  "James Salter Interview: The Most Famous Writer You’ve Never Heard Of". Interview with Michael Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2013.

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• The perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so that profit maximization is not really the driving force. It is fear of loss rather than hope of gain that limits our behavior.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Loss, Survival, Important

  "Evolutionary economics" by Kenneth Boulding, Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, (p. 104), 1981.

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• When we become fixed in our perceptions we lose our ability to fly.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Fixed, Ability, Loses

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “Joyful Wisdom”, p.73, Random House

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• Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

  Jane Hirshfield

  Possibility, Words And Music, New Possibilities

  Jane Hirshfield (2015). “Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World”, p.8, Knopf

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• Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Anger, Walking Meditation

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• This perception that the only people that come to Crown are helpless victims and we are just sitting there preying on them, you know, I reject that absolutely and that does upset me. And I think that that is, you know, that is a spin line from the latte set, which is completely wrong.

  James Packer

  Thinking, People, Upset

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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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• Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What it does is bring you into reality as perception itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Reality, Discovery

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