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Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential. -- Wallace Stevens
Perceptions of impossibility are commonly disspelled by unmitigated courage and perseverance. -- Wes Fesler
Perceptions change with time and you can't rush it, in my judgment. -- George W. Bush
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The key to changing our past, present, and future is to create our piece of the PIE (our Perceptions, Interpretations, & Expectations) on purpose. -- Bill Crawford
Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential. -- Wallace Stevens
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Anything that opens up people's perceptions a bit is good. -- Peter Dinklage
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us. -- Virginia Satir
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. -- Marshall McLuhan
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe. -- Claudia Black
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. -- Mark Twain
People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are. -- Tracy McGrady
Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience. -- Freda Adler
The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays. -- Noam Chomsky
Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up. -- Oscar Pistorius
Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy. -- JR
The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions. -- Joseph Rotblat
Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future. -- Michael Mandelbaum
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. -- Ansel Adams
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
High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image. -- Helena Bonham Carter
The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself. -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay. -- Martin Jacques
The worst thing you can do is try to manipulate or control perceptions. It's impossible, and when you are found out the result is disastrous. Better to be transparent and play well with others so that when bad things happen you have a reservoir of good will to bank on. -- John Gerzema
Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment. -- David Gemmell
The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,' or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way you look at things - your perceptions, mental attitudes, and beliefs. It includes the way you interpret things - what you say. about something or someone to yourself. -- David D. Burns
When I go to business meetings, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The mail room is downstairs,' to believe that racial perceptions don't still exist. But I figure there are always going to be knuckleheads no matter how many of their herd get stuck in the tar pits of progress. -- John Ridley
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. -- Willa Cather
Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Life's all about perceptions. -- Kevin Spacey
Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions. -- William P. Young
Expectations are the engines of our perceptions. -- Seth
Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings. -- Asa Don Brown
I communicate my innermost perceptions through art. -- Arshile Gorky
Question Your Paradigms, your perceptions of reality. -- Daniel N. Robinson
Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players. -- Kristi Yamaguchi
People's realities are the result of their perceptions. -- Karen Wojcik Berner
The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. -- Gail Sheehy
Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions. -- Gladys Taber
All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions. -- Leonardo da Vinci
We can control our lives by controling our perceptions. -- Bruce H. Lipton
Is this World a reality or just a Human perceptions? -- Bash
If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it. -- Audre Lorde
People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works. -- Marcia Gay Harden
The opinions of others are their perceptions. Define your life! -- Lailah Gifty Akita
You can reverse your biological age by changing your perceptions. -- Deepak Chopra
Your beliefs and perceptions determine the boudaries of your world. -- Al Duncan
Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality -- Matthieu Ricard
To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions. -- Stephen Covey
You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different. -- Bernhard Langer
I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world. -- Ethan Zuckerman
It's just that different emotions and perceptions demand different frequencies and intensities. -- Christian Wiman
Don't expect people to change until you change your perceptions about people. -- Debasish Mridha
What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them. -- Voltaire
The energy you bring, positive or negative, dictates your perceptions, receptions and radiations. -- T.F. Hodge
There's definitely a huge gap between the elite and public perceptions on immigration. -- Mark Krikorian
The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is their perceptions of reality. -- Ehab Atalla
Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own. -- Daniel Goleman
The energy you bring, positive or negative, dictates your perceptions, receptions and radiations." -- T.F. Hodge
Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe. -- Claudia Black
Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past -- Khaleda Zia
Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world. -- Pattie Boyd
Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past. -- Khaleda Zia
The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer. -- Arthur Smith
When we become fixed in our perceptions we lose our ability to fly. -- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Things are recalibrated according to new perspectives and perceptions. It's fascinating to me. -- Tim Gunn
As other perceptions arise...the total vision of human possibilities enlarges and is transformed. -- Jean Baker Miller
Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis. -- John Prendergast
Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered ... -- Henry A. Kissinger
A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying. -- Eckhart Tolle
Never accept other people's limited perceptions of you. Define yourself. You can do anything. -- Jeanette Jenkins
To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions. -- Nikola Tesla
Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them. -- Willa Cather
A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman. -- Henry David Thoreau
What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything. -- Donna Quesada
Its important not to focus so much on the statistics, but [on people's] perceptions. -- Federico Pena
What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual. -- Julia Roberts
I am very aware of the impact that television has on people, in changing perceptions. -- Gloria Calderon Kellett
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity. -- Edward de Bono
Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation. -- Ilchi Lee
In our external world we create and attract with our beliefs, thoughts, emotions and perceptions. -- Debasish Mridha
Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived. -- William Blake
It's impossible to just localize your perceptions - because the stimuli come from both eyes. -- Guido Molinari
People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork. -- Art Alexakis
Whether it is moral or immoral, virtuous or malevolent, could mostly be captured to our perceptions. -- Gladys Adevey
Style isn't something added on; it's intrinsic to the perceptions and the way you see life. -- Martin Amis
There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world. -- Stephen Hawking
Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. -- David Cottrell
I sort of challenge people's perceptions of what a gay man is, which is kinda good. -- Russell Tovey
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. -- M. H. Abrams
I've been around for so long, people have their perceptions of me: good, bad or indifferent. -- Rob Lowe
It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling. -- Kenneth Koch
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist. -- Ned Rorem
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge. -- Ramana Maharshi
In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over. -- Elizabeth Moon
In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over. -- Elizabeth Moon
It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false. -- Rene Descartes
I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change. -- Bobby Seale
My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century. -- Philip Treacy
Travelers perceptions do not always reflect the reality of a situation, and ignorance is costing the industry billions. -- Paul Dowling
There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses. -- Mark McKinnon
Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny. -- George Clinton
To me, it's not about being anywhere, but being able to change my perceptions and experience something new. -- Chris Hadfield
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward yourself and others. -- Gabrielle Bernstein
The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable... -- Nicholas Sparks
The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy. -- Eva Hoffman
That is the beauty of memory, isn't it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions. -- Wes Fesler
Let's stop being so damn judgemental & crucifying everyone who doesn't fit into our boxed-in perceptions of what is right. -- Gillian Anderson
Logically there is nothing new to say about the New. Or maybe it's just a problem of articulating unfamiliar perceptions. -- David Toop
Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists. -- Anthony Kiedis
Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us. -- Nhat Hanh
Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Enjoy the limitless bliss consciousness here and now. The reality of you lies much beyond your sensory perceptions and boundaries. -- Amit Ray

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