Top 1200 Different Perceptions Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of deconstruction of this thing that we call jazz - of course it's different than what Americans do, because Europeans have a different history, a different sensibility and so forth - the nature of the creative process itself it's the same; but what comes from that creative process is different, because you have a different history, you have a different society, different language.

People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork.

Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, [the missionary William Elliot Griffis [1843-1928], the scientist Edward Sylvester Morse [1838-1925], and the writer Lafcadio Hearn], and then for the marvelous reconstruction of how Japan worked on their minds, radically changing their perceptions of the country and the whole relationship between East and West--between the barbarian and the civilized. The book is a tour de force.

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

It makes me very happy that people's perceptions of what's beautiful and attractive are gradually changing.

Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered.

It's impossible to just localize your perceptions - because the stimuli come from both eyes.

Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality

Let's stop being so damn judgemental & crucifying everyone who doesn't fit into our boxed-in perceptions of what is right.

I don't dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don't know, people's perceptions of me. I truly don't.

I definitely enjoy working within different contexts, with different collaborators, and in different locations. I need to keep feeding myself as an artist by working with different people. I see continuing with that. I've also enjoyed getting to explore different kinds of music and instruments in the last couple of years.

The moral of the story: perceptions are everything. During each moment you are in contact with a customer, you are the organization.

If someone announces me as a 'Christian rapper,' there's still an 'Eh, no thanks.' But perceptions are starting to change.

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.

Different films, different genres show the different things I do. It's nice because it brings different groups of people to following what I'm doing. So hopefully, it kind of reiterates that I'm not just a one-trick pony as well.

I've got a variety of different sources of news that I follow and every day there's going to be different headlines, different stories spun different ways and different sources that they're going to cite as their facts.

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.

We are different because our brain is wired differently. This causes us to perceive the world in different ways and have different values and priorities. Not better or worse - different.

The media have such a strong hand in deciding what people's perceptions are. They decide what the agenda is going to be, what the issues are.

I tend not to worry about what the perception is. I think people have their different views over different things. They have different opinions over different business models and over different business interests.

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past.

I want to try to help shift perceptions people may have of me as an actor.

My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century.

I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.

It's always good I think in general to have different energies on screen, like it's nice to have different characters go at different speeds, just like different people work at different speeds.

Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, "I could sing that song. I've got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs; it is actually important to do songs they're familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I've changed people's perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be.

I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing.

I think that, for so long, there was only one type of actor, and now you see these different colors, different people, different shapes and different sizes. It just makes it more interesting.

Travelers perceptions do not always reflect the reality of a situation, and ignorance is costing the industry billions.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.

There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses.

The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.

I think we need to develop the courage to write from the viewpoint of people who may seem quite different from ourselves, who might have a different sexual orientation or a different race or a different ethnicity.

I love getting to have different food and getting to be around different people and different cultures and different ways people look at life. It's really kind of helped me open up my mind and see the world from different perspectives.

I love doing roles and movies that are different from each other. That's kind of why I like to be an actor because I get to play different characters and pretend I'm different people going through different situations.

You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know.

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

False perceptions are being created about me without an iota of proof.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.

I had become a victim of people's perceptions. It's not just me, I think all actresses are.

When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

A lot of magic is designed to appeal to people visually, but what I'm trying to affect is their minds, their moods, their perceptions.

I was very different than everybody else growing up. I spoke a different language at home, I ate different food, and I looked different. So I could always relate to Aladdin in that way, being the outcast.

It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions.

Money can be a reflection of our perceptions of power, self-esteem, personal history, fears, and happiness.

One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.

But Annabeth knew that people saw what they wanted to see. They didn’t need the Mist to warp their perceptions.

Contrary to perceptions, I am completely devoted to my work, though I don't go around tom-tomming my commitment.

As other perceptions arise...the total vision of human possibilities enlarges and is transformed.

I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings.

Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives--we are each of us unique.