Ordinary Perceptions Quotes

#1. A poet adds the awe factor to our ordinary perceptions.

Debasish Mridha

#2. It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

Kenneth Koch

#3. One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behavior was its insistence that women were victims, and men powerful patriarchs, which made a travesty of ordinary people's experience of the mutual interdependence of men and women.

Rosalind Coward

#4. White lost because he failed to remember the right continuation and had to think up the moves himself

Siegbert Tarrasch

#5. Despite the present, temporary interests that Israel has in common with France and Britain, you ought not to forget that the strength of Israel and her future are bound up with the United States.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#6. Here's what I think: the only reason I'm not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.

R.J. Palacio

#7. I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.

Conrad Black

#8. If a musician wants to become a fine artist, he must first become a finer person.

Shinichi Suzuki

#9. Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.

Benjamin Spock

#10. I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy.

Jackie Chan

#11. Remember: Bad timing equals great plot twists.

A.L. Mabry

#12. I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will be endless number people telling you that you can't do what you are trying to do. You won't succeed, there's something else you should be doing.

Dean Koontz

#13. Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.

Allen Ginsberg

#14. Those who can afford private schooling need not worry about their children being deprived of art, music and literature in the classroom: they are more sheltered, for now, from the doctrine of efficiency that has been radically refashioning the public school curriculum.

Azar Nafisi

#15. It is not money that is been jeopardized on daily basis, it is actually 86,400 seconds of your life. You are given that amount of life every day in time not in money.

Sunday Adelaja

#16. People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.

Marshall McLuhan

#17. Clinical psychologists have proven that ordinary people
will alter their memories of the past to make them fit
their perceptions. It is the way all normal brains function
under ordinary circumstances.

Scott Adams

#18. Some of the most healing words in any language are, "I'm sorry. Will you forgive me?" How much more we need that confession to our Father in heaven.

Billy Graham

#19. Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.

Jonathan Swift

#20. I imagine that she flushes, seeing him there, for she is at that age when even the most commonplace boys take on a sense of mystery. And this boy is not ordinary. He is wild and he has strange and fanciful perceptions. [p. 153]

Kim Edwards