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  • Perception is reality. -- Lee Atwater
  • Perception precedes reality. -- Andy Warhol
  • Perception defines everything. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Perception determines insanity... -- Phil Collins
  • Perception can be changed -- Phil Knight
  • Perception is a powerful tool. -- Shannon Lee
  • Perception starts with the eye. -- Aristotle
  • Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything. -- Terry Goodkind
  • Perception is made up of bands. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Perception is created and twisted so quickly. -- Louis C. K.
  • Truth is universal. Perception of truth varies. -- Bohdi Sanders
  • Perception and reality are two different things. -- Tom Cruise
  • Perception and worldview are one's summary of life. -- Asa Don Brown
  • Perception of a state is not the state. -- M. John Harrison
  • Perception is real even when it is not reality. -- Edward de Bono
  • Perception is reality to the one in the experience. -- Danielle Bernock
  • Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born. -- Dan Brown
  • Perception is the lie that we convince ourselves exists -- Melissa Bradley
  • Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation. -- Deepak Chopra
  • Perception is a tool that's pointed on both ends. -- Hannibal
  • Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is ... -- Miyamoto Musashi
  • Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty. -- Stephen Colbert
  • Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact). -- R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Perception, influenced by experience and knowledge creates an acceptable level of reality. -- Kamil Ali
  • Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing. -- Pawan Mishra
  • Perception of personal danger very often set people on the path of virtue. -- Donna Leon
  • Perception is all there is. If the customer think he's right, he's right. -- Tom Peters
  • Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication. -- Juliette Lewis
  • Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality. -- Chris Murray
  • Cooperation with others. Perception, experience, tenacity. Know when to lead and when to follow. -- Ming-Dao Deng
  • Perception of ideas, rather than the storing of them, should be the aim of education. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
  • Perception is everything and that becomes the reality. It's a big problem for Hillary Clinton. -- Carly Fiorina
  • Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective. -- Ryan Holiday
  • Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli. -- Sigmund Freud
  • Perception is a vice with which each person is capable of perceiving his or her reality. -- Asa Don Brown
  • Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits. -- Jennifer Stone
  • Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do. -- Alva Noe
  • Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality. -- Terry Goodkind
  • You're guilty until proven innocent. Perception is reality, that's the way that it is in this world. -- Chris Webber
  • Perception not only defines existence but it creates existence. It gives it form. Without perception there is no existence. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it. -- Lamar Odom
  • Perception is, in essence, who we are. We are what we perceive. What we perceive defines who we are. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes. -- Robert Breault
  • What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent. -- John Paul Caponigro
  • Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that. -- Bill Cowher
  • Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come. -- Michelangelo
  • The perception of beauty is a moral test. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe
  • Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. -- Irving Berlin
  • The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. -- Agnes Repplier
  • Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Jung
  • Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality. -- Alexis Carrel
  • Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. -- Camille Pissarro
  • If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. -- William Blake
  • Your perception of the world around you is not necessarily the same as what is actually occurring. -- Peter Ralston
  • Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you. -- Jon Bon Jovi
  • The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem. -- Caitlyn Jenner
  • One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever.' -- Robert Holden
  • It is the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive. -- Charles Webster Leadbeater
  • When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is with the truth. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there. -- Norman Vincent Peale
  • As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before. -- François-René de Chateaubriand
  • To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others. -- Tony Robbins
  • 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
  • Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas. -- Edward de Bono
  • There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence. -- Deepak Chopra
  • One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them. -- Tom Robbins
  • There is no truth. There is only perception. -- Gustave Flaubert
  • I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me. -- M.I.A.
  • I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception. -- James Balog
  • With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you. -- Chris Robinson
  • If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me. -- Angelina Jolie
  • There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. -- Aldous Huxley
  • Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. -- Ansel Adams
  • I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me. -- Elijah Wood
  • All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told. -- Barry Unsworth
  • The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not? -- Robert Fripp
  • Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic. -- Raymond Chandler
  • 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
  • As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought. -- Annie Besant
  • 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
  • I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem. -- Jim Brown
  • Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes. -- Marianne Williamson
  • Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. -- Stan Brakhage
  • But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based. -- Seamus Heaney
  • I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change. -- Danica McKellar
  • Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil. -- Noam Chomsky
  • Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction. -- Kevyn Aucoin
  • The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love. -- Gary Zukav
  • And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different. -- Harlan Coben
  • We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found. -- Sharon Salzberg
  • The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence. -- Gary Zukav
  • All perception is a gamble. -- Edmund Husserl
  • Reality is based on perception -- Geoff Thompson
  • I think perception is important. -- Jeff Gordon
  • Science is nothing but perception. -- Plato
  • Human perception is literally incarnation. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • Compassion is an alternate perception -- Mary Caroline Richards
  • Is perception equivalent to existence? -- Erica Jong
  • Modern morality is all about perception. -- Rachel Cusk
  • It's strange how knowledge changes perception. -- John Dear
  • Always let intuitive perception precede analysis. -- Walter Darby Bannard
  • There is no reality, only perception. -- Phil McGraw
  • My perspective will create my perception -- Neale Donald Walsch
  • All perception is colored by emotion. -- Immanuel Kant
  • Miracles are a shift in perception. -- Kenneth Wapnick
  • Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious -- Carl Jung
  • Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception -- Marcus Aurelius
  • Our understanding is correlative to our perception. -- Robert Delaunay
  • Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. -- Kevyn Aucoin
  • Logic will never change emotion or perception. -- Edward de Bono
  • Imagination is a sort of faint perception. -- Aristotle
  • The heart is an organ of perception. -- Surya Das
  • Brand perception is a brandâ??s reality -- Laura Ries
  • Miracles are simply a change in perception. -- Mark Victor Hansen
  • The problem is that perception is reality. -- John Rowland
  • A perception of impossibility should never go unchallenged. -- Wes Fesler
  • Reality, unlike perception, cannot be changed by propaganda. -- Charles Hugh Smith
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