Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.
All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
I learned how to eat right and learned portion control and how to exercise. Staying persistent over the years, I have been able to change the way I'm perceived on the outside.
As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.
The consequence was, that the most sudden and visible good effects were perceived from the use of oranges and lemons; one of those who had taken them, being at the end of 6 days fit for duty.
Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.
As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.
I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.
In order to succeed greatly without limitations, you must perceive life as a journey of endless possibilities and opportunities.
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.
Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.
That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).
I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.
Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill.
Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.
My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.
The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.
There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.
