Perception Quotes - Page 37

• I think having six people all with different energies and different perceptions all working around a script is quite profound. It’s not about, oh that’s what you should be doing.

  Jihan El-Tahri

  Thinking, People, Profound

  "Africa First 2012 Profile: Advisor Jihan El-Tahri On Pressures, Successes & Criticisms Of Program". Interview with Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Fate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.360, Penguin

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• It's fantastic that the world is becoming more open to different ways of working, but we still have a long way to go in terms of changing perceptions.

  Maynard Webb

  Long, Different, World

  "Meritocracy: Overcoming the Fear Factor" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• Dying is all about letting go and letting be, as is the awareness of God. People who have traveled far along the contemplative path are often aware that the sense of separation from God is itself pasted up out of a mass of thoughts and feelings. When the mind comes into its own stillness and enters the silent land, the sense of separation goes. Union is seen to be the fundamental reality and separateness a highly filtered mental perception.

  Martin Laird

  Letting Go, Reality, Land

  Martin Laird (2006). “Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation”, p.10, Oxford University Press

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• Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.

  Bruce Lee

  Choices, Anxiety, Mind

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• Approach every meeting with a purposeful, high-energy, ready-to-make-a-contribution attitude, and watch how fast leadership’s perception of you follows your behavior.

  Jack Welch

  Attitude, Energy, Watches

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• Invention and entrepreneurship isn't about pure technology. Most people take whatever they see in front of them and relate it to something they understand. For at least ten years after Ford started building cars, people called them horseless carriages. It wasn't obvious to call it a car. They used to call the radio 'the wireless.' Innovation is much more about changing people and their perceptions and their attitudes and their willingness to accept change than it is about physics and engineering.

  Dean Kamen

  Attitude, Technology, Years

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• The difference between happiness is no-where and happiness is now-here has something to do with the event, and everything to do with how you see the event. Your perception is key.

  Robert Holden

  Attitude, Keys, Differences

  Robert Holden (2011). “Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast”, p.5, Hay House, Inc

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• And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Reality, Mirrors

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Intelligence is of paramount importance to live life sensibly, because without intelligence, there is no clarity. And Clarity is intelligence everyone is capable of.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Live Life, Clarity

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• As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is the ultimate home for that sense of ambiguity.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Communication, Home, Voice

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• The unlived life is not worth examining.

  Old Tom Morris

  Life Is, Miscellaneous, Examining

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• Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation, and if we try to become less so, we may accept a definition that confines the definition of small wins to narrower issues than is necessary.

  Karl E. Weick

  Mean, Winning, Issues

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• It comes as no surprise that average Americans have a different perception of the economy than (US President) George W. Bush and his friends. They can play around with statistics as much as they want, but it's clear that we have an unfair distribution of wealth.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Average, Play, President

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In New York, no one really cares who the hell you are. It's strange to be in the public eye where people have a perception of who you are, when they have never even met you.

  Roland Orzabal

  New York, Eye, People

  "Interview: Tears For Fears lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years ago for 60 thousand dollars. I could sell it today for 600. The illusion has become real and the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it.

  Oliver Stone

  Real, Years, Dollars

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• Of one thing we can be sure: our own future is inseparable from the larger community that brought us into being and which sustains us in every expression of our human quality of life, in our aesthetic and emotional sensitivities, our intellectual perceptions, our sense of the divine, as well as in our physical nourishment and bodily healing.

  Thomas Berry

  Healing, Emotional, Expression

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.162, Crown

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

  Jonathan Ames

  Self, People, Shy

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• 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

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• Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance
  of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor
  cold rationality, but an aura of energy and a drive to grasp
  personal "truths" still emerging into perception.
  To grasp and to shape them.

  Earle Birney

  Art, Thinking, Balance

  Earle Birney (1972). “The cow jumped over the moon: the writing and reading of poetry”, Holt McDougal

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• 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.

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• The trouble is that all-encompassing though information technology may be, it will always convey facts and numbers ... what it does not convey is perception, belief and motivation.

  John Harvey-Jones

  Motivation, Technology, Numbers

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• Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

  Aristotle

  Imagination

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• Question Your Paradigms, your perceptions of reality.

  Daniel N. Robinson

  Reality, Paradigm, Perception Reality

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• 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.

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