Perception Quotes - Page 9

• Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Differences, People, Shadow

  Vladimir Nabokov (1992). “Pale fire”

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• We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. No woman can be well dressed unless she is comfortable in what she is wearing.

  Bill Blass

  Fashion, Reality, Style

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• All perception is colored by emotion.

  Immanuel Kant

  Emotion

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• We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Haste, Hours, Comprehension

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• She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

  George Eliot

  Struggle, Adjusting, Facts

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.244, Penguin

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• Karma means who you are and where your awareness field is on the band of perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Mean, Band

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• Our beliefs are what create our experiences. As we change our beliefs, we alter our perception, our version of reality.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Reality, Belief, Versions

  Twitter post from Oct 23, 2016

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• Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ocean, Character, Waste

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.226

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• There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

  Jane Austen

  Character, Natural, Penetration

  Jesse Zuba, Jane Austen (2009). “Persuasion - Jane Austen”, p.100, Infobase Publishing

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• All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Learning, Knowledge

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• You are a piece of creation. If you go against any other piece of creation, you are unknowingly going against yourself.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Pieces, Clarity

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• But that is the thing about miracles: it is perception that determines them as such, not facts.

  Camilla Gibb

  Miracle, Facts, Determine

  Camilla Gibb (2007). “Sweetness in the Belly”, p.18, Penguin

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• Light and color are closely linked. The colors can make a crucial change in nature, if you switch from daylight to artificial light or just from strong to weak illumination. In addition, color perception is affected by the material structure. Even if a piece of textile can have the same color as a shiny enamel plate, then they will act completely different.

  Verner Panton

  Strong, Light, Illumination

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• The Jewish Talmud says that the righteous peoples have an equal place in paradise. The Christians and Muslims agree in rejecting that; they claim that they are the fortunate recipients of God's final message and those who accepted will go to heaven and those who rejected go to hell. So there is a long struggle between the Dar al-Islam and the Dar al-Harb, which in effect was Christendom. This was the perceived enemy. And this has inevitably colored the perception of everything else.

  Bernard Lewis

  Christian, Struggle, Long

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• Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We don't know how God holds the kingdom in balance or why he moves a chess piece at a crucial time; we might never see the results of his sovereignty [...] I might just be one shade of one color of one strand, but I'm a part of an elaborate tapestry that goes beyond my perception.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Moving, Chess Pieces, Color

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.114, B&H Publishing Group

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• 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

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• 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

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• Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Understanding, Levels

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• I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving, Brave, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.229, U of Nebraska Press

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• Beauty is about perception, not about make-up.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Perception Of Beauty, Makeup And Beauty

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• Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts, they paint watercolors of perception.

  Diane Ackerman

  Ideas, Focus, World

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.127, Vintage

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• I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That's not my family's fault; it was my perception.

  Willie Aames

  Brother, Misunderstood, Different

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

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• Our perception of time is indeed our reality.

  Brigid Schulte

  Reality

  Brigid Schulte (2014). “Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time”, p.33, Macmillan

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• Creation is not your doing, but the way you are, the way you experience life, the situations you attract, are one hundred percent your doing.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Way, Clarity

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