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.
People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork.
Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered.
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.
Travelers perceptions do not always reflect the reality of a situation, and ignorance is costing the industry billions.
False perceptions are being created about me without an iota of proof.
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've been around for so long, people have their perceptions of me: good, bad or indifferent.
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.
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.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.
Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed
The object of my worship lies beyond perceptions reach. For those who see, the Ka'ba is a compass, nothing more.
But Annabeth knew that people saw what they wanted to see. They didn’t need the Mist to warp their perceptions.
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.
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.
It's interesting how the view from abroad can shift and remake perceptions of homegrown celebrities, the ones who are part of the gross domestic product.
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.
Money can be a reflection of our perceptions of power, self-esteem, personal history, fears, and happiness.
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
I sort of challenge people's perceptions of what a gay man is, which is kinda good.
I had become a victim of people's perceptions. It's not just me, I think all actresses are.
A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.
In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.
Let's stop being so damn judgemental & crucifying everyone who doesn't fit into our boxed-in perceptions of what is right.
It's impossible to just localize your perceptions - because the stimuli come from both eyes.
One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.
Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation.
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.
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.
It makes me very happy that people's perceptions of what's beautiful and attractive are gradually changing.
I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.
Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.
I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.
The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.
To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward yourself and others.
Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things.
In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously.
Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality
Never accept other people's limited perceptions of you. Define yourself. You can do anything.
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.
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.
Enjoy the limitless bliss consciousness here and now. The reality of you lies much beyond your sensory perceptions and boundaries.
When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.
It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.
Contrary to perceptions, I am completely devoted to my work, though I don't go around tom-tomming my commitment.
There was a lot of struggle. People have different perceptions about you and sometimes looks also can limit you as an actor.
Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.
All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all the skill which one can acquire. And then to stand before the judgement of time.
Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
When you get into recovery, you have to relearn a lot of perceptions, attitudes, and self-awareness if you want to stay clean. You really do change.
A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.
While history has its limitations in shaping contemporaneous and forward-looking strategic choices, it does shape popular perceptions.
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