Top 1200 Self Perception Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

A large part of my career is due to perception, what people think what I am or should be.

No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

We need to believe that we're good people, and we'll do just about anything to maintain that perception.

The perception is if you are not 206lbs then you can't be considered main event talent, which is foolish.

Public perception changes with every film. That's the best part of being an actor.

The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.

My perception is that I'm a guy who really does a lot of homework surrounding any project that I do.

Self-sufficiency is vitally important to my self-respect. I never wanted to rely on my parents in that way, because I knew that if I got used to it, I'd be reliant all my life.

This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.

I can't describe it in words, but I can see it in my head, its color, its light, its shapes, and I've managed to synthesize my love for myself by way of many different reasonings and processes, and I've been able to really synthesize my own satisfaction and things that do it for me. They've usually been self-taught, self-instructed, self-refined. So to be with anybody else has to somewhat lie in that comfort zone I've created with myself so well.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.

Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.

When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge.

When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance.

When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!

Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.

For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.

You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.

Our everyday self is a narrow construct...Our total self is far broader, ultimately infinite. Actors who seem to be playing themselves are actually playing roles they have become so skillful at that they seem pure and natural...Much bad Acting is the result of being too close to the Actor's everyday self, confining him in its rigid mold.

There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.

There was never a perception that I was second-class relative to boys. That gave me confidence.

Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

Enlightenment, meditation is really a shift in perception. It's not a thing that you go and do or become, since you're already that.

Who I am as a father is far more important to me than the public perception.

When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.

A gentleman is one who doesn't and can't forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life.

Not long ago, the popular perception of Chennai was of a coffee-loving conservative city.

We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.

I am driven to observe of the ultra-Darwinists the following features as symptomatic. First, to my eyes, is their almost unbelievable self-assurance, their breezy self-confidence.

... and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.

My perception has changed from thinking if someone's in jail they're supposed to be, to there's a lot of factors that's not that simple.

Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice

When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys' club.

You have to work from one point to go to another. So I admire work ethic, I think it should be reinforced through our neighborhoods, that everybody should work hard, practice makes perfect, you have to be diligent with what you want, you have to apply yourself, you have to motivate your self. You have to do for self by yourself, and then you can do things for other people. That's what I had to do, I had to do for self.

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

Now this spirit is admirably mortified by the exercise of patience. It involves also a continual practice of the presence of God; for we may be come upon at any moment for an almost heroic display of good temper. It is a short road to unselfishness; for nothing is left to self. All that seems to belong most intimately to self, to be self's private property, such as time, home, and rest, are invaded by these continual trials of patience.

The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.

There is more and more data that the biological molecules of aging are more under the influence of psychological factors than the chronological age that we usually associate with. Of course there are other things that influence our aging process, including how we perceive time. If you're constantly running out of time, then your biological clock speeds up, and you do run out of time with a heart attack or something like that. The quality of our self-esteem determines how we age. Our perception of our bodies as fields of energy or fields of matter influence how our body ages.

Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but self-determined, in accordance with reasons or norms rationally self-given.

The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.

When I lived in England my perception of what people thought of me was largely formed by the media.

Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.

Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we want and what we should do

I definitely think that, for a woman, the biggest turn-on is the mind. Otherwise, obviously you want someone who keeps up with himself and has self-respect and self-confidence.

There's no use to having the majority if you are going to be hamstrung by your perception of political vicissitudes.

Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.

Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as "the self stuffed with the self."

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

The most positive action we can take about the past is to change our perception of it.

The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level.

Everyone seems to have this perception that I'm injury-prone or I've had a lot of injuries, and that's not the case at all.

People have ignored me in the past, thinking that I probably had an attitude. And I couldn't break that perception.

I work out all the time. Cardio, resistance and a lot of jogging. I love to go hiking. I'm going to invest this in myself, into my self-worth, into my self-esteem.

The perception is that more important people watch news in the evenings than in the mornings.

So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still.