Quotes of: Perception Keyword

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

John Drinkwater

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.

Killosophy

We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans thin...

Amity Shlaes

There is no truth. There is only perception and perception is reality!

Manoj Vaz

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

James J. Gibson

Only when we accept the fact that the world is never exactly as we see it through our individual lens of perception will we be able to accept ourselves or the mystery that is life itself.

The Lens of Perception: A User's Guide to Higher Consciousness

Viscosity occurs on a cellular level. And so does velocity.In contrast to viscosity's cellular coma, velocity endows every platelet and muscle fiber with a mind of its own, a means of knowing and commenting on its own behavior. There is too much perc...

Girl, Interrupted

To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehend...

The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

Trauma can have a masking effect.

The effects of childhood trauma on adult perception and worldview

No perspective, no perception. New perspective, new perception.

Master of Stupidity

However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.

The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

Samuel Alexander

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

Samuel Alexander

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.

David Hanson

The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way: internally generated activity is modulated by sensory input. In this view, the difference between being awake and being asleep is mere...

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework...

The effects of childhood trauma on adult perception and worldview

Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...

The effects of childhood trauma on adult perception and worldview

Resiliency is the body's internal response to a stressful situation.

The effects of childhood trauma on adult perception and worldview

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

Middlemarch

There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.

James J. Gibson

To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

Henri Bergson