Top 1200 Perception Of The World Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

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

My identity will always inform my experience and shape my perception. But I am an unremarkable person.

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

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

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

Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.

The Tea Party is but one manifestation of a widening perception that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful.

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.

It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

Clothing totally changes my perception of how I feel about myself depending on what it is that I'm wearing.

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

A lot of things occurred to me with shamans in Peru.There were a number of different kinds of experiences that you learn from doing ritual and taking ayahuasca [a common tropical forest hallucinogen] is the key to understanding the native consciousness and perception of the world with the Peruvian shamans that you wouldn't get unless you had been with them, but every shamanic tradition, including the Native American tradition of medicine and cleansing ritual, like the Sun Dance or the sweat lodge.

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

Public perception of the Westminster arena, with all its posturings, does little to engender a sense of voter belief.

The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.

When you're an actress you are in a very specific position, cerebrally, I would think you know. You are a thinking person but you are in a certain perception of the world between really being conceptual and completely stupid. So you are in between, with a lot of intuition and instinct. And that's not completely being intellectual because I think intuition is more blurred. It comes from intuition. Instinct. More than really reasoning.

You can accept that perception of yourself that you're getting too old to be interesting or buyable. Or you can kind of do what you do and see what happens.

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

We have to change the perception that ANC members are corrupt just because of a few greedy individuals.

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.

Sometimes isn’t it better to have some time and space to ourselves? We will have new perception of things.

True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehensions as well as physical perception.

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

People see dark faces out there, and the perception is that they're African American. They're not us. They're impostors.

You don't need Beanie Sigel in the building with a pre-perception that this crazy dude might do anything.

America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there's a perception that that is okay.

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

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

I'm uncomfortable trying to rush change of perception, except to the extent that I'm going to write a book.

I'm most proud of my heritage; being able to shape people's perception of Rwanda or Rwandans.

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

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.

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

Your body, which is very physical, is under the influence of your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, your dreams, your fantasies, your desires, your instincts, your drives, your imagination. All these things orchestrate themselves - all these internal activities that are in the invisible domain that we call consciousness actually have very precise physical effects both in our biology, but they also influence our perception of the world.

A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.

We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in. I think we accept a lot of those boxes, that labeling, and the way that we perceive the world, but what even is perception? It all seems pretty flexible to me.

Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.

We're in a very unique time where noise equals, in a lot of people's perception, advocacy. And I fundamentally disagree with that.

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

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

Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.

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

With eating well, there's a perception that it's depressing. People think they're just going to meditate and eat kale.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.

By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.

The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

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.

Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.

There is no perception among the American people, nor their elected representatives, that there is a serious problem that needs fixing.

It really hurt me when there was this perception that I didn't want to play for Scotland. I was fuming, absolutely gutted.

There is, then, a link between the logistics of perception, the wars in Lebanon and the Gulf as well as with CNN and the Pentagon.