Ability To Perceive Quotes

#1. Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

Aldo Leopold

#2. When I make a film, the mixing process is very long, and you hear and watch the material in every form, so that totally shreds your ability to perceive it. So after the mixing, there's no way I can have the emotions or the reactions to my films in the same way.

Pedro Almodovar

#3. Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.

Brandon Sanderson

#4. In reality, many choices are between things that are not that much different. The value of choice depends on our ability to perceive differences between the options.

Sheena Iyengar

#5. Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.

Abraham Zaleznik

#6. Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

#7. Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.

Dean Mitchell

#8. The buildup of negative auric vibrations initially impairs our ability to perceive psychically. They can eventually cause us to become ill. Most serious illnesses, including many types of cancer, are the result of auric toxicity.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena.

Vaclav Havel

#10. For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#11. The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

David Bohm

#12. 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

#13. If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth will grow every day, and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#14. In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

Lennart Meri

#15. Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet ... he is very easy to work for.

Marlon Brando

#16. Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.

Rachel Cusk

#17. What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story.

Steve Maraboli

#18. Perhaps parents' greatest heritage to pass on to their children is the ability to perceive the multitude of God's daily blessings and to respond with continual gratitude. We should be "abounding in thanksgiving" (Colossians 2:7).

Randy Alcorn

#19. This grant gave me more than memories; it gave me a crucial experience that is formative to all writers: the ability to perceive that we become writers in exile, where what we write is the only link across distance and time ... I became a Maryland writer because the community of Juneau took me in.

Paula Vogel

#20. The analytical nature of science gives us the ability to perceive the anatomy of the universe and every molecule in it, but it is the human imagination that gives it life.

Louisa Preston

#21. All humans are sentient and sapient beings so they have the ability to perceive, think, and act using their knowledge, experience, insight, and conscience.

Debasish Mridha

#22. I believe my most important skill is an ability to perceive patterns in the market. I think this aptitude for pattern recognition is probably related to my heavy involvement with music.

Linda Bradford Raschke

#23. In advanced Zen a person comes to realize that the existence of things and their ability to perceive them correctly is completely dependent upon their state of mind.

Frederick Lenz

#24. Using two-dimensional lenses to perceive the multi-faceted world can limit your ability to observe the world more objectively.

Pearl Zhu

#25. Life is most transfixing when you are awake to diversity, not only of ethnicity, ability, gender, belief, and sexuality but also of age and experience. The worst mistake anyone can make is to perceive anyone else as lesser.

Andrew Solomon

#26. It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.

Steve Backley

#27. Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#28. The author says one of the sources of resilience is the ability to measure and perceive early warning signs so as to adapt.

Andrew Zolli

#29. When we speak of choice, what we mean is the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to choose, we must first perceive that control is possible.

Sheena Iyengar

#30. Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made between who we are and what we perceive.

Frederick Lenz

#31. Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.

Peter Diamandis

#32. 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

#33. What breaks you down is not the amount of pressure you feel at one time, but it's the way you perceive and handle it.

Ashish Patel

#34. To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in return.

Walter Benjamin