Quotes About Perception And Perspective

#1. I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Criss Jami

#2. Everyone's perception is different; we all see different things. I personally think you see what you want to see.

Fisher Amelie

#3. Utopia is a collective shift of perception away. Abundance is all around us. Only our efforts at tower-building blind us to it, our gaze forever skyward, forever seeking to escape this Earth, this feeling, this moment.

Charles Eisenstein

#4. You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller.

Kathryn Davis

#5. There is the truth , the perception of truth, and versions that don't even come close; but it's the perception that creates the most conflict every time.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#6. In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

Eric Kandel

#7. No perspective, no perception.
New perspective, new perception.

Toba Beta

#8. We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people's minds.

Shannon L. Alder

#9. Sometimes you don't need to change what you're looking at only get a better view.

Christopher Hawke

#10. Be like the flower, content with its nature.

Seth D.

#11. If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.

Marianne Williamson

#12. Mind is greedy. When you sense the benefits with people who previously thought rubbish about you, the mind forgoes those thoughts and inclines toward those people only to gain optimal benefits.

Ashish Patel

#13. What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.

Criss Jami

#14. If you simply get detach from yourself, it gets easier for you to see, how you perceive life.

Roshan Sharma

#15. We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.

Anthony De Mello

#16. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell

#17. This seemed to drive home the basic principle that perspective and distance affect perception.

Jennifer Coburn

#18. Why then should witless man so much misweene
That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

Edmund Spenser

#19. If the sun never set, we would have no perception of the vast depths of space, which become visible only at night when we are able to see what is obscured by the bright daylight

William Keepin

#20. Our perception of reality is malleable. Everything is always shifting. We may not have the power to change an event, but we do have the power to change our perspective.

Stephanee Killen

#21. The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. It is a question of getting the true perspective, of seeing things in proportion.

Agatha Christie

#22. Only the beautiful can acknowledge all that is beautiful, and only the ugly can acknowledge all that is ugly as being beautiful.

Suzy Kassem

#23. What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

Martha Graham

#24. When you're at peace, you embrace the eternity.
When you're confused, you be dazzled by doomsday.

Toba Beta

#25. The author perceives nuances of Abigail Adams' character in the occasional errors she makes in readily quoting John Milton. Rather than giving the observer a reason to quibble, they are evidence that she had absorbed Milton's works enough to feel comfortable quoting them from memory.

David McCullough

#26. [O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Susan Sontag

#27. Our perception could either be our path to nirvana or an invisible cage that bottles us up.

Pawan Mishra

#28. Truth is universal. Perception of truth varies.

Bohdi Sanders

#29. If having problems feels like a problem to you, it may not be the problems themselves, but the way you think about them that is the problem.

Steve Goodier

#30. My perspective will create my perception

Neale Donald Walsch

#31. Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

Mary E. DeMuth

#32. An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

Criss Jami

#33. The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

Oscar Wilde

#34. The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

Edith Hamilton

#35. Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.

Criss Jami

#36. Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#37. It's not how I take tragic news but how I make tragic views that unscrews me.

Brian Spellman

#38. The collective sensation is one's perspective, experience, memory, imagination, and perception.

Pearl Zhu

#39. I love objectivity when mine.

Brian Spellman

#40. The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

T. S. Eliot

#41. Silverfish looked down.
"Oh. Are you a dwarf?"
Cuddy gave him a blank stare.
"Are you a giant?" He said.
"Me? Of course not!"
"Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes.

Terry Pratchett

#42. Perspective should be learned - and then forgotten. The residue - a sensitivity to perspective - helps perception, varying with each individual and determined by his responsive needs.

Nathan Goldstein

#43. He has neither what I call the outward vision (seeing details all around you what is called an observant person) nor the inner vision
concentration, the focusing of the mind on one object. He has a purposefully limited vision. He sees only what blends and harmonises with the bent of his mind.

Agatha Christie

#44. Attempting to change our perception without changing our perspective is often an exercise in imagination. As

Chaitanya Charan

#45. Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.

Wally Lamb

#46. Whatever his weight in pounds and ounces, he always seems bigger because of his bounces.

A.A. Milne

#47. It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual's state of mind. The mad truth - all people live in their heads. Whatever you think life is, it is.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#48. Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl

Miranda July

#49. True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant.

Chris Messner

#50. To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.

Claude Simon

#51. Americans can't stand any stranger looking them in the face. They take it as an insult. It's something they don't forgive. And every American carries a gun. If they catch you, a stranger, looking them in the face, they will shoot.

Okey Ndibe

#52. The more you get set into your own world, the smaller your world becomes.

J.R. Rim

#53. Behavior makes sense from the actor's perception or else the actor wouldn't do it. Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, you know, today I'm going to be conforming, mistaken, nasty, and so on.

Ellen J. Langer

#54. Attempting to express a person's objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing alters our perception of reality and amends our mental equilibrium.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#55. Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.

Ryan Holiday

#56. If you allow the life to happen, by connecting with your inner world, then you don't have to worry about the changes with your perception or the change in the outside world. All you have to do is to follow your inner truth, to reach to your destination.

Roshan Sharma

#57. People's realities are the result of their perceptions.

Karen Wojcik Berner

#58. Every living creature on this planet, has a conscious subjective perspective of the world. The plants may seem to us as standing indifferent to the human sufferings, but even they have their own unique mental universe. They have their own way of interacting with the environment.

Abhijit Naskar

#59. Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing.

Pawan Mishra

#60. Pain is such a useful thing. It corrects us when we're wrong. It shapes our character. It teaches us that we're alive.

C.J. Redwine

#61. Life flows as a whole, both inside and out, but you divide life with your mind, both inside and outside.

Roshan Sharma

#62. Life only remains complex with the individual perspective. Individual perspective cannot think beyond itself while life has to consider the perspective of each and every individual.

Roshan Sharma

#63. It is so easy to demonize free-market and the freedom to outsource and offshore because it is so much easier to see people being laid off in big bunches, which makes headlines, than to see them being hired in fives and tens by small and medium-sized companies, which rarely makes news.

Thomas L. Friedman

#64. A more truthful perception may be seen from the perspective of the whole - what we really are, beyond names, roles, education, religion and other information added to our true nature.

Ilchi Lee

#65. You can only carry the illusive personality in your mind until you realize the truth behind it, but the time you realize the truth, you just cannot hold the illusive self of yours, in the mind.

Roshan Sharma

#66. While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Dorothea Lange

#67. The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

#68. Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.

George Clinton

#69. Elasticity is a fundamental principle of perception,

Neal Shusterman

#70. Each of us sees things not as they are but as we are.

Jack Provonsha

#71. The perspective is more important than the perception

Amit Abraham

#72. Most of the things we deem as impossible are only impossible because we've given them permission to be impossible.

Craig D. Lounsbrough