Perception Quotes - Page 34

• We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound perception of what is at stake.

  Van Jones

  Change, Profound, Understanding

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.

  Conrad Black

  Issues, Credibility, Policy

  Conrad Black (2012). “A Matter of Principle”, p.517, Encounter Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things.

  Raymond Arroyo

  Mother, People, Sometimes

  "Living With a True Mother". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. December 21, 2005.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

  Jonathan Ames

  Self, People, Shy

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  6 Copy quote

• I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Damaged Goods, News, Way

  Mika Brzezinski (2011). “All Things at Once”, p.212, ReadHowYouWant.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  10 Copy quote

• 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.

  62 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Anchors, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.88, Courier Corporation

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's weird to be called a celebrity or talk about it. I don't talk about being a celebrity in my business meetings. I don't talk about it with my friends. It's not a part of my life. It's a media perception of who I am.

  Mary-Kate Olsen

  Media, Who I Am, Business Meeting

  "Mary-Kate Olsen On Being Sexy, Sister Ashley And Heath Ledger". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2008.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination.

  George Berkeley

  Lying, Men, Odds

  6 Copy quote

• When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the colours which it employs are faint and dull, in comparison of those in which our original perceptions were clothed.

  David Hume

  Past, Mirrors, Faithful

  David Hume, Eric Steinberg (1992). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.10, Hackett Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• How often must I repeat, that I know or am conscious of my own being; and that I myself am not my ideas, but somewhat else, a thinking, active principle that perceives, knows, wills, and operates about ideas?

  George Berkeley

  Thinking, Ideas, Principles

  George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.69

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your energy and your awareness are directly connected. If your energies are intense, your awareness naturally grows and sharpens.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Energy, Clarity

  5 Copy quote

• There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.

  Lily Collins

  Names, Needs, May

  29 Copy quote

• Sure, there's a chunk of African-Americans out there who associate the Republican Party with racism, frankly particularly in the Deep South. It's an unfair perception, but it exists. Over a period time, that perception will die away if Republicans are focusing on issues that happen to impact African-Americans.

  Artur Davis

  Party, Impact, Issues

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Sade Adu

  Real

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  5 Copy quote

• Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual consciousness, lies not in vague theological ideas, but in the acquisition of Self-realization.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Lying, Self

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1977). “Self-realization”

  121 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know that I'm an animal that displays bilateral symmetry. I understand that one side should be the mirror of the other, and that human perceptions of beauty are intimately associated with symmetry. For example, I am very handsome.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Animal, Mirrors, Perception Of Beauty

  14 Copy quote

• The love of God uplifts and enlarges us. I can never think of myself anymore as exclusively in this body; I feel that I am present in all bodies. I have no awareness of race or other distinctions at all. In my perceptions, just as I feel my own consciousness in every part of my physical form, I feel you all to be a part of me. Everything that is living I feel within this body. I know the sensations of all. It is not imagination; it is Self-realization. This consciousness is far beyond telepathy. It is awareness of the perceptions of every being. That is the meaning of Christ Consciousness.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Uplifting, Thinking, Christ Consciousness

  26 Copy quote