Quotes of: Perception Keyword

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Perception does not define who we are, but it does define where we are limited, and where we are not yet free.

I Am Here: Opening the Windows of Life and Beauty

We can become fearless as we let go off our grasp on the fear of failure, because failure too is a perception rather than a reality.

The Restful Mind

I’d see the arrow. I’d think about attitude and perception. Maybe the green arrow on the ceiling is to Muslims as the KJV in the Motel 6 nightstand is to Christians.

The Rainy Season

Poetry is another name for a person’s telling of the self, existence and what is beyond, and one’s own perceptions.

Speech and Power of Expression: On Language, Esthetics, and Belief

We each project to others a reflection of the world which includes our choices of perception.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Depression was like wearing tinted glasses and looking through them changed one's perception dramatically. A fancy new house could be construed as a bunch of boards nailed together.

Madman in the Mirror

Empirical" knowledge itself is of little benefit unless it awakens the inner perception of man as to his own situation, his potentialities, his risks, and his destiny

Major Themes of the Qur'an

How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.

The Names

Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl.

Nine Stories

A day is a day. It’s just a measurement of time. Whether it’s a good day or a bad day is up to you. It’s all a matter of perception.

Look into the stillness

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.

Phenomenology of Perception

As with all young ones, a deeper perception comes clearer with time... Roe'vaash recieved the grace to release the anger and pain he had carried and suffered for so long...

Then'diel's Song

Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response to terror is righteous anger, confidence in ultimate justice, a refusal to be intimidated.

Velocity

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Germany, because of the fact and the perception of a special relationship with Russia, is the only one who can influence Russian debate. Russians also believe that Germans understand them best because they've been through a big war and know what humi...

Ivan Krastev

It’s so still she can almost hear the thrum of the cosmos, its pulse trembling at the edge of perception

Flight of the Tarantula Hawk - A Lance Underphal Mystery

Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within...

Pierre Schaeffer

Love makes things so easy. At the same time, it makes things very difficult. The meaning of love always remains to be the same. It just gets changed according to the perception of people in different gestures.

Love

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

Robert Creeley

The neural code usually refers to how your current thoughts and feelings and perceptions are encoded in the signals that neurons are passing around - and it's not the same. The code is not the same for every person.

Sebastian Seung