Top 1200 Self Perception Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

As a perception on how I have perceived myself, I have always felt beautiful.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

I'm not claiming anything like sainthood - merely a native perception.

There is a perception that anganwadis are merely places where food is provided to children.

Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.

Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

I use visual perception as a way of bringing people into my space.

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.

We can see the same spirit in everybody only when we know we are that spirit, Atman or Self. Only a person who has understood his own Self can see that Self in everybody.

Consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain GOD perception.

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.

Know your own Self. Honor your own Self. Find and be who you really are, at the deepest level of your own being. Be present in your own presence. Give yourself the gift of your own Self.

I do think I can change the perception of the 'Bachelorette.' And not just because of my race.

Karma means who you are and where your awareness field is on the band of perception.

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

There are people who want awards because it changes the perception of the audience. But I'm not into all that.

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality.

The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that's incorrect.

The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.

Obviously, my perception of the world is one where humans are a threat to our survival.

In a way, it's all down to perception, isn't it? And everyone has their own take on everything.

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading ? some type of first use or embordering activity. Obviously, an actor must already own his body if he is to be a homesteader; self-ownership is not acquired by homesteading but rather is presupposed in any act or defense of homesteading.

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.

There is perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it is not a self at all, but something else. It is well to beware of persons who believe that the cause, the mission, the philanthropy, the hero, or whatever it may be that they strive for, is outside of themselves, so that they feel a certain irresponsibility, and are likely to do things which they would recognize as wrong if done in behalf of an acknowledged self.

When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.

I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

The sometimes-tough love of the Christian faith of my childhood demanded a certain amount of self-reflection and, occasionally, self-criticism.

Eating a RAW food lifestyle is the purest and best way to live. Many of the strongest and longest living animals are raw, such as the panda bear and gorillas. Self love has brought me to a RAW lifestyle. Feeding my body with pure natural energy. Most people's perception is what has been ingrained inside them by manipulation, but slowly there is a shift in consciousness, one person at a time. People will ask more questions, begin to stand up for themselves, go their “own way”, take better care of themselves, which will benefit everyone and everything around them.

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, you position is shaky. When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear? Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear? See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things.

When we find delight in another person, we've actually found something joyful inside ourselves that involves a shift in our awareness, a shift in our perception, because the same person is not necessarily attractive to other people.In relationship, whenever we're drawn to someone or repelled by someone, they're both mirrors of the self. We're attracted to people in whom we find traits that we want or desire in our own selves. And we are repelled by people in whom we find traits that we're denying in ourselves. So relationship is a true mirror of where we are in our evolution in consciousness.

I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

Getting lost in human perception is a very scary idea.

University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students.

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

Post-?wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-?pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-?absorption without self-?awareness.

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

There is this perception that TV is glamorous and it is the pinnacle of your existence - I don't think it is.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.