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• If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

  Angelina Jolie

  Bullying, Stupid, Inspiration

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

  Alexander Fleming

  Team, Science, Discovery

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• I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Body, Speak, Interpretation

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.173, Routledge

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• Beyond our most stubborn misperception lies often our fondest dream.

  Robert Breault

  Dream, Lying, Stubborn

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• If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Looks, World, Painting

  Ernst Hans Gombrich, Didier Eribon (1993). “Looking for answers: conversations on art and science”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• It would be frightening to think that in all the Cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning.

  Mircea Eliade

  Destiny, Thinking, Would Be

  "The Little Book of Romanian Wisdom". Book by Diana Doroftei and Matthew Cross, 2011.

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• It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more basic than that: it is perception.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Thinking, Enemy, Enlightenment

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• What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Specialists, Humans

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• The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Painting, Should, Painter

  Charles Sala, Caspar David Friedrich (1994). “Caspar David Friedrich and Romantic Painting”, Vilo International

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• Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Kingdoms, Kind, Consciousness

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.194, Penguin

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• Distance lends enchantment to the view.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Wisdom, Distance

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.59, Univ of California Press

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• There are no facts, only interpretations.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Encouraging, Witty, Truth

  Notebooks, Summer 1886 - Fall 1887.

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• Perception is reality.

  Lee Atwater

  Philosophy, Reality, Medicine

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• The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, Differences, Students

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• Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

  Stephen Colbert

  Matter, Facts, Certainty

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 25, 2006.

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• The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.

  Andy Stanley

  Taken, Roots, Debtors

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• Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and spiritual worlds are opened to him. For those who do not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the bodily world is dark and silent for a being without eyes and ears.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Eye, Dark

  Rudolf Steiner (2013). “The Essential Rudolf Steiner”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Nature, Men, Land

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• One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.

  Jane Campion

  Movie, Real, Women

  Jane Campion, Virginia Wright Wexman (1999). “Jane Campion: Interviews”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

  Tom Robbins

  Looks, World, Ability

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• In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

  George Orwell

  Fighting, Enemy, Novelists

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.198, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Life, Ignorance, Reality

  Paul Watzlawick (1977). “How real is real?: Confusion, disinformation, communication”, Vintage

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• Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be

  Creflo A. Dollar

  Sadness, Thinking, Differences

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• What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

  Lucille Clifton

  Attitude, African American, Calling

  "Fooling with Words (Part One)". billmoyers.com. May 28, 1999.

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• We cannot focus upon the weaknesses of one another and evoke strengths. You cannot focus upon the things that you think they are doing wrong, and evoke things that will make you feel better. You've got to beat the drum that makes you feel good when you beat it. And when you do, you'll be a strong signal of influence that will help them to reconnect with who they are.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Relationship, Strength

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