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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.
What could be a more Canadian way to indulge in the national preoccupation with perceptions - honest, hilarious, huffy or high-minded - of this country and its inhabitants?
When we become fixed in our perceptions we lose our ability to fly.
Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.
A poll survey should indicate at the outset whether it is meant to capture opinions and beliefs for preferences and practices or value and perceptions.
To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
It's fantastic that the world is becoming more open to different ways of working, but we still have a long way to go in terms of changing perceptions.
Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a material universe.
Part of me worries about upsetting people, because we all have perceptions about Olympic champions.
The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.
Everyone brings their own perceptions when reading a book about a real person. At the end they will take away whatever they wish.
The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.
Instagram, Swiffer, and Nest had to compete with consumer habits and perceptions. Breakout products face competition from the formidable inertia powering the status quo.
Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation.
I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.
Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.
I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.
The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.
To be on a sound footing, one must have one's perceptions of life clear, and a strong foundation. That is all that ultimately matters, not only in modelling, but in other professions as well.
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.
Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental.
The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.
Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a moment.
A lot of people have their own perceptions about me, like I'm very stuck up, so full of myself, you know. But it's not true.
I like to play with contrast. It's about changing people's perceptions of people.
The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.
The amygdala, along with related areas..., plays a crucial role in coordinating perceptions with memory and behavior. These regions are especially sensitive to social interactions.
Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions are phantoms; everything is eternity, God, divine.
To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.
Ever since I left Northern Ireland, I've always been pretty comfortable on my own, which contradicts a lot of people's perceptions of me.
To me, it's not about being anywhere, but being able to change my perceptions and experience something new.
I don't say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.
You know, one of the perceptions, again, about FEMA is that there's been a demise in the organization since it became the - under - it started to become part of the Department of Homeland Security.
We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.
That is the beauty of memory, isn’t it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi)
Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts.
It is terrific to be involved with changing people's perceptions, and the world is changing.
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.
Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.
Being a liberal progressive has been demonized as anti-white or overly on the side of blacks. There's nothing that can be done about that; it's just where we are in the history of our perceptions.
I am ever with those who practice Kriya Yoga. I will guide you to the
Cosmic Home through your enlarging perceptions.
Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark.
I've learned not to attach personal feelings to critics who review your work. It's their opinions, their perceptions - it's a very subjective thing, and you can be hurt.
Attention is what steers your perceptions; it's what controls your reality. It's the gateway to the mind.
Too many of us let others' wrong perceptions of us influence how we see ourselves.
What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.
Questlove is an artist who I respect because he constantly shifts within the idiom, challenging perceptions of hip-hop and black American culture.
Your beliefs and perceptions determine the boudaries of your world.
You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else's plan for you.
It's just that different emotions and perceptions demand different frequencies and intensities.
I'm trying to get a thicker skin. I like to be aware of people's perceptions of me, but when you put it as a priority, as a means to judging your worth, that's when it can be dangerous.
You can reverse your biological age by changing your perceptions.
Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses.
There may be little practical difference between a Ford Mondeo and a BMW three series, but in terms of perceptions of who you are and what you are, then they are worlds apart.
The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.
My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide understanding, comfort, and company to others.
People's perceptions of their status are just as important as their actual status.
