Perception of the world quotes:

Send

Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world. -- Tina Weymouth
Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you. -- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan? -- Stephen Baldwin
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
When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it. -- Andrzej Wajda
The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world. -- Stephen Hawking
Obviousl, my perception of the world is one where humans are a threat to our survival. -- Kevin Bacon
To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. -- Claude Simon
Your perception of the world around you is not necessarily the same as what is actually occurring. -- Peter Ralston
Your hopes and dreams, as well as your perception of the world around you, come through in your work and make it unique. -- Nita Leland
My road is towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I decipher in a new way the world unknown to you. -- Dziga Vertov
All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates. -- Robert Macfarlane
Some would suggest that there has been a dramatic change in our perception of the world and ourselves within the world. Others have observed that there has been an almost complete about-face in a relatively short span of time. -- Alex Campbell
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
When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings. -- Jim Woodring
There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is transformed by the camera, that you can't use the limitations or the transformation to have an observation that is a very subtle perception of the world. -- Stephen Shore
Freed from the boundaries of time and space, I co-ordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be. My way leads towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you. -- Dziga Vertov
Your perception of the world is ... really a fabrication of your model of the world. You don't really see light or sound. You perceive it because your model says this is how the world is, and those patterns invoke the model. It's hard to believe, but it really is true. -- Jeff Hawkins
If there is such a thing as 'a Cukor style,' I guess it arises out of two principal factors: my own personalized perception of the world and my ability to deal professionally with actors. As far as perception is concerned, I always try to imagine settings through the best possible eyes. -- George Cukor
I do believe that everything we see, everything that is in front of us is just the visible part of reality. We have the invisible part of reality, like emotions for example, like feelings. This is our perception of the world, but God is-as William Blake said-in a grain of sand and in a flower. This energy is everywhere. -- Paulo Coelho
Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing. -- Will Wright
I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world. -- Ethan Zuckerman
There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world. -- Stephen Hawking
The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness. -- Robert Delaunay
The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means. -- Kimbra
Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world. -- Stephen Batchelor
Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route. -- Theodore Bikel
Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of the world. -- Stephen Batchelor
After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do. -- Jim Harrison
You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world. -- Douglas Coupland
What I had to learn was, that I'm only responsible for my perception of things. The world's not out to get you. That's not the way it works. -- Chris Robinson
It's fantastic that the world is becoming more open to different ways of working, but we still have a long way to go in terms of changing perceptions. -- Maynard Webb
We live in a twilight sort of world where, unfortunately, the perception of the seriousness of abortion - has grown progressively obscured in the minds of many of our contemporaries. -- Sean Brady
The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world. -- Pankaj Mishra
The system of creating opportunities for those who were by law excluded, you've got to do that. But you mustn't create a perception that the process is devoid of competitiveness... devoid of building a world class, sustainable black business community. -- Patrice Motsepe
Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that! -- Taisen Deshimaru
The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception. -- Marcus Aurelius
When one opens themselves to spiritual perception, the world becomes a magical place. -- Patricia L. Meek
Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception. -- Jeremy Begbie
Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world. -- Jean Houston
... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world. -- Susan Griffin
If you want to change the world, change your perception and awareness. The world will change. -- Debasish Mridha
Education opens our minds eye to see the world with our own unique vision and perception. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story. -- Cheryl Strayed
It is important to note that the world changes and that perception of music changes as well. -- Michala Petri
You're guilty until proven innocent. Perception is reality, that's the way that it is in this world. -- Chris Webber
This particular world is not really a world, it's a perception that you are having at the moment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art. -- Marilynne Robinson
All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you. -- Deepak Chopra
Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious. -- Philippe Sollers
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. -- Albert Einstein
In this world we live in now, with a 24/7 news cycle, perception can sometimes be more powerful than reality. -- Omar Epps
Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it. -- Lamar Odom
There's the perception Danni Minogue is the sweetest little thing in the world but she's not... she's got balls of steel. -- Sharon Osbourne
The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it. -- Byron Katie
Our world exists onlythrough our perception of it. Change our perception of our world and we change the world -- for us. -- Roger Dawson
Reality is perfect light. It frees you from the limitations of this world, from the ugliness, from the unhappiness of limited perception. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Reality is perfect light. It frees you from the limitations of this world, from the ugliness, from the unhappiness of limited perception. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Your perception about the world creates your thoughts, your thoughts create your desires and intention, and your intentions manifest as your reality. -- Debasish Mridha
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
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another. -- Neil Postman
In order to see the world clearly, you must clean the windows of perception. The only problem is, our society doesn't do windows. -- Dean Lombardi
The world is your perception of it. Inside and outside always match - they're reflections of each other. The world is a mirror image of your mind. -- Byron Katie
An enlightened person lives in the world, passes through the ten thousand states of mind, but they are not bound by them. They can go beyond perception. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Stick with your own perception of yourself-living in your own world-and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or particular situations, control your performance. -- John Eliot
But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events. -- Muhammad Iqbal
Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts, they paint watercolors of perception. -- Diane Ackerman

Send