Top 1200 Perception Is Reality Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

We have to have loving speech. And if we are honest, if we are true, terrorists will open their hearts. Then we practice compassionate listening, and we can learn so much about our own perception and their perception. Only after that can we help remove wrong perception. That is the best way, the only way, to remove terrorism.

Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception.

Power is the thing that holds a band of perception together, and a band of perception is life for those who perceive in that band. If the band of perception were to go away, they would not exist.

We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

I do believe that everything we see, everything that is in front of us is just the visible part of reality. We have the invisible part of reality, like emotions for example, like feelings. This is our perception of the world, but God is-as William Blake said-in a grain of sand and in a flower. This energy is everywhere.

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might conceivably have in common with other forms of intelligent life in the universe. As I understand it, there is no reality more independent of our perception and more true to itself than mathematical reality.

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

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

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

Have you ever considered that your perception of reality could be wrong? If you haven't, this is a pretty good sign that it is.

Those of us who make movies play with perception and reality; those who watch our films are responsible for making sense of it.

There's probably no one who understands Method acting better academically than I do, or actually uses it more in his work. But it's funny - nobody really sees that. It's perception versus reality, I suppose.

There is obviously a gap between the public's perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite's perception.

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.

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.

Death is simply a change in perception. It is not an end to perception as a finite being.

The lives we live are a bit of a straight-hair vs. curly-hair thing. We often want what we don't have. In reality, it's not about better or worse; it's just perception.

No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.

What you experience as "reality," including your physical body and aging, is shaped by your habits of perception.

Straight edge is everything about a personal decision to not live my life under the influence or not being aware. I pretty much don't like anything that alters my view of reality or my perception or my grasp.

Psychic perception is a much more efficient and accurate method of seeing and knowing reality.

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

My altered perception of reality while on psychedelic drugs came as a total shock to me.

Well, I think I'm not a non-believer, and I'm not a believer. But, on the other hand, I couldn't give you a good enough reason why EVP doesn't exist. I don't know enough about it, so how could I say it's not true. Plus, a person's reality is a person's reality so that's your belief system. It's all perception anyway, isn't it.

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

Man does not see reality as it is, but only as he perceives it, and his perception may be mistaken or biased.

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

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.

I know perception is reality in politics and I know how it looks, but the reality is Democrats lost the election and what they thought it was gonna be, a landslide with the best candidate they could have ever nominated, Hillary Clinton, look at the rejection. The rejection is real. They're creating a Fantasy Island world in which none of this happened. And that's where they're choosing to live. That's not healthy, folks.

When we look at an object in a different way our perception of it immediately changes. But reality always stays the same.

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

For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.

From the outside, there's a perception Silicon Valley is full of really young, geeky guys. The reality is there are lots of different types of people there.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing most of what's going on.

As a mode of perception that often becomes a style of life, paranoia weaves around the vulnerable self or group an air-tight metaphysic and world view. Paranoia is an antireligious mysticism based on the feeling or perception that the world in general, and others in particular, are against me or us. Reality is perceived as hostile. By contrast, the religious mystic experiences the ground of being as basically friendly to the deepest needs of the self. That which is unknown, strange, or beyond our comprehension is with and for rather than against us.

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

Our perception of time is indeed our reality.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

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

When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.

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

Power isn't real, and it isn't earned. If you act like you have it, suddenly you're leading everyone. Perception is reality.

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

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

...Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.'

The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways. This is the point, reality is nothing, perception is everything.

ISIS is gaining strength because the perception is that they're winning. And President [Barack] Obama fuels that perception.

It crosses your mind every once in a while that it's the AFC championship, but it's not any different. It's that whole thing that pressure's a perception, not a reality. It's what you allow to be put on yourself.

The life you are living is your creation, your perception of reality that you can change at any time.

There's this perception of D.C. as a boring town run by old white men, but in reality, there are incredibly young people in charge of really important things.

ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION

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

Honestly, the biggest setback to my music career was people's perception that I was a reality TV star, not a rapper.

Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you.

In this world we live in now, with a 24/7 news cycle, perception can sometimes be more powerful than reality.

Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.