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
Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. — Robert Collier
Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er. — Dorothea Lange
Vision is the ability to see God’s presence, to perceive God’s power, to focus on God’s plan in spite of the obstacles. — Charles R. Swindoll
The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis. — Luis Barragan
The organization of light and shadow effects produce a new enrichment of vision. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
If you eyes are opened, you'll see the things worth seeing.
So now the perception is, yes, women are here to stay. And when I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]? And I say when there are nine, people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse. — Carlos Castaneda
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence. — Alan Watts
Some people feel the rain. Other just get wet.
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful. — Kailash Satyarthi
I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life. — Immanuel Kant
To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions. — Nikola Tesla
Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
Sensory Perception Quotes
There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive. — Charles Webster Leadbeater
These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming. — Alan Turing
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain. — David Abram
Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem. — David Abram
Today, look at the blue sky, hear the grass growing beneath your feet, inhale the scent of spring, let the fruits of the earth linger on your tongue, reach out and embrace those you love. Ask Spirit to awaken your awareness to the sacredness of your sensory perceptions. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
It is better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.
I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions. — Rene Descartes
Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas. — Hermann Ebbinghaus
We are evolving
from five-sensory humans into multisensory humans....
The perceptions of the multi-sensory human
extend beyond physical reality
to the larger dynamical systems of which our physical reality is a part. — Gary Zukav
Enjoy the limitless bliss consciousness here and now. The reality of you lies much beyond your sensory perceptions and boundaries. — Amit Ray
Sense Perception Quotes
The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body. — Bruce H. Lipton
To see is one thing, to hear is another — Greek Proverbs
The best learners... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them. — Stephen Brookfield
When you are dead, you don't even know that you are dead. It's only pain for others. Same thing when you are stupid.
In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires. — Alan Autry
Achievers always work from a clear sense of priority. — Gary Keller
The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it. — Archibald MacLeish
Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.
Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter. — Albert Einstein
Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will. — Bruce Lee
Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. — Nikola Tesla
What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are. — C. S. Lewis
Perceive The World Quotes
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. — Gerald G. Jampolsky
The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech — Lev S. Vygotsky
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
How deep is the mud? Depends on who you ask. We all go through the same stuff differently.
If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good reason why mankind should be perceived as special. Human life is cheapened. We can see this in many of the major issues being debated in our society today. — Francis Schaeffer
The only reality I can possibly know is the world as I perceive it at this moment. The only reality you can possibly know is the world as you see it at this moment. And the only certainty is that those perceived realities are different. There are as many “real worlds” as there are people! — Carl Rogers
Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world. — Rudolf Steiner
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
We are all different in the way we perceive the world. We must use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others. — Tony Robbins
Why do we perceive the world as stable and ourselves as local and unique? Here’s my guess: because it’s useful. — Max Tegmark
Black and white is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic the world in a manner similar to the way the human eye might perceive...
Black and white is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. — Roger Ballen
To live as an artist is a way of being in the world. A way of perceiving. A practice of paying attention. — Rick Rubin
Perception Of The World Quotes
Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness. You are not separate from it, and there is no objective world out there. Every moment,
your consciousness creates the world that you inhabit. — Eckhart Tolle
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness. — Rodney Dangerfield
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world. — Tina Weymouth
I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want, and do not want, to be true. — Travis Walton
Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don’t even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality. — Robert Anton Wilson
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story. — Byron Katie
Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you. — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
My understanding of the world is all through the prism of martial arts. It’s affected every aspect of my life. — Valentina Shevchenko
The world is full of beauty, you are the greatest proof of this. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Level Of Perception Quotes
The 'secret of life' is BELIEF. Rather than genes, it is our beliefs that control our lives. PSYCH-K is a set of simple, self-empowering techniques to change your beliefs and perceptions that impact your life at a cellular level. — Bruce H. Lipton
There's a depth of meaning all on its own in awareness being gentled. From within the subtlety of being gentled, the level of perception changes. Instead of perceiving the obviousness of experience, you're able as awareness to perceive most subtle meaning. — John de Ruiter
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring. — Henry David Thoreau
I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are, through the defects of our society and our educational system, un-available to us without such drugs. — Lester Grinspoon
There are so many levels of understanding and experience when it comes to this thing we call love. In our human relationships, it can be vastly complicated. Each of us has our own unique love-history, perceptions, and expectations. — Michael Beckwith
There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus annoyance. To the viewer who has reached that level of awareness, my work is no longer abstract, but very real. — Eugene J. Martin
Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality. — Jaggi Vasudev
Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free that can look and understand immediately. Freedom implies really, doesn't it, the total emptying of the mind. To completely empty the whole content of the mind — that is real freedom. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling. — Deepak Chopra
It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition. — Maureen Phillips
Peripheral Vision Quotes
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
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
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
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
I know other worlds exist. I can see them in my peripheral vision. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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
Optical Illusion Quotes
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion — Donna J. Haraway
Our separation from each other is an optical illusion. — Albert Einstein
Beauty is the result of clarity and system and not of optical illusion. — Henry van de Velde
There’s no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion. — Jenna Marbles
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. — Carl Sagan
There are optical illusions in time as well as space. — Marcel Proust
Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world. — Tom Holt
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. — Victor Hugo
If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive. — Lord Byron
False Perception Quotes
There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters. — Jim Gaffigan
What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity. — David Hume
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false — Clifford Geertz
The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak up, stand up, and keep correcting the false perceptions. Stay true to your heart's views and keep chanting for peace and justice. — Suzy Kassem
An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false. — Nance O'Neil
When our false perception is corrected, misery ends also. — Adi Shankaracharya
I think there's a perception of me that I'm the dark lord of all that is scary and gory, but that's completely false. I love musicals. My house is very bright and lit. It's not what people would really expect from a Saw director, but I think that's what allows me to do the things that I do. — Darren Lynn Bousman
It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false. — Rene Descartes
The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up. — Frederick Lenz
Doors Of Perception Quotes
Creativity is a huge part of my game as a player. It helps open doors which others don’t see. — Paul Pogba
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. — Mary Browne
Thinking opens the doors to our minds and makes us receptive to the very idea of broadening our horizons and learning new things. — Folorunsho Alakija
We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves. — Aldous Huxley
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born. — Aldous Huxley
When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite. — William Blake
What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed. He still experiences the moment he lives in. — Tom Wolfe
Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. — William Blake
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
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
Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism which brings them to life. Art contains the allied ideas of making and begetting, of being master of one's craft and able to create. Without these properties no art exists and no photographic art can come into being — Helmut Gernsheim
We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. — Josef Albers
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
The use of neuroscientific data to help resolve phenomenological questions is proving a common theme in much contemporary thinking about the mind. How rich are the contents of visual perception? Does vision only tell us about shapes and colours, or does it also represent higher categories like lemon or umbrella? — David Papineau
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
"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?"" — Ansel Adams
Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It is not only their apparent 'objectivity' that grants photographs their high status in this regard, but our belief that in them, fugitive sensation has been laid to rest. — Max Kozloff
Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of sensuality and perception of the corporeal self. — Valerie Steele
Writing is the only way I know how to pray. — Helena Maria Viramontes
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. — David Galenson
Why isn’t the word “phonetically” spelled with an “f”? — Steven Wright
In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. — Josef Albers
Ridley Scott - not that he shared it a lot, but you can just see that everything he did, Ridley always seemed to be just so clear. I love that about him. — William Fichtner
You get used to seeing certain things, and if you don't find a new way to talk about it, then frankly at some point you need to get out of the way. — Brent Stirton
If you want to take down your opponent, you do it tactically, point by point. — Hasan Minhaj
Only in the 20th century, artists started taking the study of perception in a more humane way. They were thinking about the eye as being an instrument, the whole body as being a visual instrument. That sort of gave way a little bit with Cartesian - the "Cogito ergo sum" argument. It's not, "I think therefore I exist." It's, "I feel therefore I think therefore I exist." — Vik Muniz
The visual does seem to me the most thoroughly grasped and recorded among my impressions; sight seems to be my principal sense organ, and "seeing" supplies the key metaphors for reporting the perception. — Zygmunt Bauman
There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at. — Nigel Cooke
I get the picture better than anybody. — Donald Trump
It's great to represent things that are not represented. — Thomas Bidegain
You have to picturize, prayerize and actualize. — Norman Vincent Peale
An image is always only showing what's necessary for a thought, not the thought itself. — Thomas Demand
An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
A work can do many things at once, and it doesn't have to be just about the world, it could also be about photography, it could be about perception, it could be an exploration of the medium. It could be a document, it could be a visual poetry, and it could be a formal exploration all at the same time. — Stephen Shore
What you see from here is not what you see from there. — Ariel Sharon
When correctly viewed, everything is lewd. — Tom Lehrer
Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right. — Blaine Lee Pardoe
Picturize, prayerize, actualize. — Norman Vincent Peale
Few ever see what is not already inside their heads. — Susan Sontag
Everything we see is inside our own heads. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
You can't see the picture when you're in the frame. — Les Brown
The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree. — Johan Huizinga
Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of æsthetic-intellectual means of perception to remain unexercised which cannot but lead to a weakening of judgment. — Johan Huizinga
See-through goes with everything. — Ophira Eisenberg
What Warcollier demonstrated is compatible with what modern cognitive neuroscience has learned about how visual images are constructed by the brain. It implies that telepathic perceptions bubble up into awareness from the unconscious and are probably processed in the brain in the same way that we generate images in dreams. And thus telepathic “images” are far less certain than sensory-driven images and subject to distortion. — Dean Radin
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