Top 1200 Perception Of Beauty Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

If I go to someplace like Switzerland, I find a lot of uptight people because they're living amongst so much beauty; there's no urgency in trying to find the beauty within themselves. If you're stuck in New York, you have to somehow look within yourself - otherwise, you'd go crackers.

It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.

We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.

Feeling a little foolish over her confidences, Elizabeth glanced up at him with an embarrassed smile. “What is the most beautiful place you’ve ever seen?” Dragging his gaze from the beauty of the gardens, Ian looked down at the beauty beside him. “Any place,” he said huskily, “where you are.

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false

I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.

Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end. As long as nature is a means to the attainment of beauty, so-called realism is necessary and permissable [sic], but it must be realism enhanced by idealism and uplifted by the spirit of an inner life or purpose.

Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?

Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty, but you can't resist charm.

When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we have seen.' I cherish the remembrance of the beauty I have seen. I cherish the grave, compulsive word.

People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.

Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling? When something is just too beautiful? When someone says something or writes something or plays something that moves you to the point of tears, maybe even changes you.

The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.

Faith fills a man with love for the beauty of its truth, with faith in the truth of its beauty

There's no use to having the majority if you are going to be hamstrung by your perception of political vicissitudes.

I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes. I'm a soul, a mind, a servant of God. My worth is defined by the beauty of my soul, my heart, my moral character. So I won't worship your beauty standards, and I don't submit to your fashion sense. My submission is to something higher.

Beauty is and always is. You are absent. Why are you absent? Again your robot mind is the problem. It will not stay still and you cannot make it stay still. It is your master and it separates you from beauty and God.

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

Gender perception can be a pernicious thing: Where a lack of warmth passes in a male, in a woman, it's deadly.

The most positive action we can take about the past is to change our perception of it.

The perception is if you are not 206lbs then you can't be considered main event talent, which is foolish.

I'm not worried about misconception or a perception that's bad. If I were, I'd be chasing something all the time.

When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.

THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make stormy and intoxicating impressions such a kind easily arouses disgust but that which slowly filters into our minds.

Life is weird and complex but very simple at the same time. It's all about perception.

The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.

All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

My perception is that I'm a guy who really does a lot of homework surrounding any project that I do.

Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.

For me, true beauty has nothing to do with wrinkles and everything to do with the fact that my maternal grandmother raised five children just after the war and remained a fighter throughout her life. True beauty is the slick of red lipstick my paternal grandmother would put on before going to church on Sunday.

We have spent so many years looking at images of another beauty ideal and so many years taking in magazine covers and films that represent a beauty standard that we'll never meet. People don't realize that there are makeup artists and hairstylists behind the scenes - even in something as simple as a 'candid' Instagram photo.

Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common every-day beauty.

Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war.

No one any longer pays attention to - if I may call it - the spirit of physics, the idea of discovery, the idea of understanding. I think it's difficult to make clear to the non-physicist the beauty of how it fits together, of how you can build a world picture, and the beauty that the laws of physics are immutable.

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.

I have to seek God beauty. Because isn't my internal circuitry wired to seek out something worthy of worship? . True Beauty worship, worship of Creator Beauty Himself. God is present in all moments, but I do not deify the wind in the pines, the snow falling on the hemlocks, the moon over harvested wheat. Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things . Nature is not God but God revealing the weight of Himself, all His glory, through the looking glass of nature.

In this sport, the good thing about the UFC and MMA in general is a lot of it's based on perception.

Fear is only my ego's deluded perception that it is possible to experience a lack of love in my life.

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

Perception of ideas, rather than the storing of them, should be the aim of education.

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.

People have ignored me in the past, thinking that I probably had an attitude. And I couldn't break that perception.

There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.

What is the beauty of the haiku is that it is not simplistic. The beauty of the haiku I just said is very complex. It reaches all the complexities of our life on this Earth. Peace - that's a very complex idea, peace, so we can't get it as human beings.

Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth.

When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys' club.

Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by man that is not beautiful, for God's manifestation is beauty. It shines through all His works, and not only in those that may give pleasure to man.

Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.

Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.

We need to believe that we're good people, and we'll do just about anything to maintain that perception.

There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.

Reality is perfect light. It frees you from the limitations of this world, from the ugliness, from the unhappiness of limited perception.

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.