Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. — Miyamoto Musashi
Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. — Nikola Tesla
Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but by what your mind can imagine. — Ellison Onizuka
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near. — Sophocles
Growing old, man’s sight worsens, but this allows him to see more. — Jewish Proverbs
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. — Thomas Carlyle
We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance. — Nichiren
It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes. — Gilles Deleuze
When our inner vision opens, our horizons expand. — Louise Hay
The eyes do not see what the mind does not want. — Indian Proverbs
The ability to see the good in others and the bad in ourselves is perfect vision. — John Wooden
Visual Perception Quotes
It doesn't take a lot of research to realize that the human eye is drawn to attractive things. — Lewis Howes
Read not only between the lines, but also what is not written. — Vijay Kedia
Seeing the Earth for the first time in orbit, you will be surprised that you never noticed the quality and texture of colors. — Peggy Whitson
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention. — Rudolf Arnheim
It’s not about the telecom operators overlooking it, it’s more about the telecom operators being stuck in a box they can’t get out of. — Micky Watkins
We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. — Josef Albers
Create the highest grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.
Scientists and mathematicians are trained to dig below the surface of the chaotic, natural world to search for unexpected simplicity, structure, and even beauty. — Jim Simons
The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex. — Sol LeWitt
Troops must be fed with ammunition and so on but also with information, with images, with visual intelligence. Without these elements troops cannot perform their duties properly. This is what is meant by the logistics of perception. — Paul Virilio
Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way I know how to invite this experience is by removing the other things (i.e., subject matter) for you to think about. — Uta Barth
Peripheral Quotes
Your guts also have about 100 million nerves, more than the number of nerves in your spinal cord or your entire peripheral nervous system. — Daniel Lieberman
When we inject people with positivity, their outlook expands. They see the big picture. When we inject them with neutrality or negativity, their peripheral vision shrinks. There is no big picture, no dots to connect. — Barbara Fredrickson
If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to detect the event of speciation itself. It happens too fast, in too small a group, isolated too far from the ancestral range. — Stephen Jay Gould
No artist tolerates reality.
Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission. — Pat Riley
All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. — Chaim Potok
I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side. — Steven Wright
When your vision is clear have faith and trust yourself even when you don't know where your path is taking you.
I had to admit the man looked amazing in jeans. The ancient denim clung lightly to his hips and followed the long lines of some remarkable thigh muscles. And although I made a point of not checking out his rear view, my peripheral vision was having a very good day.” ~ Haven Travis on Hardy Cates — Lisa Kleypas
If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed. — David Hockney
Doing a route at the absolute limit of the possible demands and encourages a coordination of all peripheral factors. It is, at the same time, a sign of joy and contentment with that moment, perhaps even a mirror of the equlibrium in your inner spirit, a mirror of a liberated state of mind. — Wolfgang Gullich
The pace of change is so great, there is always something else going on. What that says to me is that you have to have strategic vision and peripheral vision. Strategic vision is the ability to look ahead and peripheral vision is the ability to look around, and both are important. — Carly Fiorina
An oral society develops both sides of your brain, and the utilization of your brain is more complete than in a linear education module. The written word limits your brain capability by immediately focusing on one area. You don't have any peripheral vision. It immediately divorces you from the environment. — Russell Means
Sometimes we don't see out of our peripheral vision what's coming right around the corner. — Anna Quindlen
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey. — Diane Ackerman
You can see the future best through peripheral vision. — Nicholas Negroponte
Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand. — Roger Caras
Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision. — Rainbow Rowell
The precise laziness is akin to letting your eyes blur or glimpsing what's at the corners in peripheral vision. Or those moments when you think you see something but you're not sure you actually saw it in the end. The way I get to these places is just practice, like a kind of meditation that shapes my brain. — Dawn Lundy Martin
I know other worlds exist. I can see them in my peripheral vision. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Getting into a space suit and going outside, to me, getting your peripheral vision involved and looking at the Earth was a whole different experience than looking through the window. And it's kind of the same on earth. If you're driving in a car and you see like a beautiful sunset or landscape, it looks so much better if you stop and get out and kind of take it all in and that's kind of what it's like doing a spacewalk. — Leroy Chiao
I'd done a drawing of the model using only peripheral vision, looking at a spot on the wall to the right of where she sat. It wasn't really a drawing of her I produced; it was a drawing of the cloud of lights and darks she dissolved into when I focused on the spot. You could look at my drawing of this cloud and read it as a nude female figure, though a little translation was required. — Peter Blegvad
We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision. — Alvin Toffler
Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in. — Andrew Pyper
To reach beyond what you are you must ignore the rules and fashions of the day. Or perhaps better yet cast them way out in your peripheral vision where you can still see them but only as a vague reference point. This doesn’t mean that all the rules are gone. It might mean that you adopt a far tighter code of conduct to ensure the necessary level of intensity and adventure. — Peter Croft
I've never done it before. Sometimes it's tough. I don't have any peripheral vision. — Ryan O'Marra
Out of my peripheral vision, I see Four shove the door open and walk out. Apparently this fight isn't interesting enough for him. Or maybe he's going to figure out why everything's spinning like a top, and I don't blame him; I want to know the answer too. — Veronica Roth
Hi." "Hi." I shrug, as though to say "Whatever." In my peripheral vision I can see Magnus exhale. He looks a teeny bit nervous. "So." "So." I can play this game too. "Poppy." "Poppy. I mean, Magnus." I scowl. He caught me out. — Sophie Kinsella
Squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some And I'm beyond your peripheral vision So you might want to turn your head Cause someday you might find you're starving and eating all of the words you said. — Ani Difranco
I'm a peripheral visionary. — Steven Wright
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