Top 100 Quotes About Perceptive
#1. Children are perceptive, and if they see leaders and parents talk with boredom and apathy about faith yet become overtly passionate about sports teams or shopping malls, they will think the sport or the mall is more attractive than Jesus.
Matt Chandler
#2. Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
Aaron Staton
#3. There's nothing worse than a perceptive universe if there's something weird about you.
Philip K. Dick
#4. Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
Michael Morpurgo
#5. I do think, in general, children are so perceptive, and they watch and they get so much, and that's wonderful. And it's also difficult for them because they see so much, but they don't understand.
Amity Gaige
#6. Shelley was an idol of mine
and many
an extraordinary woman with powerful charisma, enormous talent and a keen, perceptive mind.
Connie Stevens
#7. It was peculiar how the more you got to know someone, the more you grew to appreciate how little you knew, how little you had ever known- as if progressive intimacy didn't involve becoming more perceptive, but growing only more perfectly ignorant.
Lionel Shriver
#8. That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone 'mainstream.'
Cesar Romero
#9. The only true development in American recreational resources is the development of the perceptive faculty in Americans. All of the other acts we grace by that name are, at best, attempts to retard or mask the process of dilution.
Aldo Leopold
#10. No one could claim that Preda Norlo Trumb was the most perceptive of individuals, and the half-dozen Letherii guards under his command, who stood in a twitching clump behind the Preda, were now faced with the very real possibility that Trumb's stupidity was going to cost them their lives.
Steven Erikson
#11. The writer,' said Donald Barthelme, 'is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do.' In this mode of not-knowing, the thick-torsoed, literal, and crew-cut mind is moved to the sidelines in favor of the swinging, perceptive, light-footed, tutu-wearing subconscious.
George Saunders
#12. Lella York, the self-proclaimed queen of passive-aggressive behavior. [Lella's perceptive view of herself]
Maria Grazia Swan
#13. the most extraordinary ideas come from children," the queen said. "If only we all could be so perceptive, we would find the simplest solutions to the greatest problems are right under our noses.
Chris Colfer
#14. I think when you're young, you're a lot more open-minded, and sometimes you're a lot more perceptive about what's going on in the world.
Zendaya
#15. If you'd rather not answer, you don't have to," Miles offered. "I'm sure it wouldn't change my impression of him, anyway."
"And what impression is that?"
"I don't like him."
Sarah laughed. "Why do you say that?"
"Because you don't like him."
"You're pretty perceptive.
Nicholas Sparks
#16. In my opinion, if you want to pursue an art, especially acting, you have to be really perceptive of what people go through. There is so much bad in the world, and I think that acting it out and exploring it almost helps you deal with it.
Rita Volk
#17. Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.
Richard Russo
#18. I don't feel any real animosity towards critics when they write negative things. I think some are more perceptive than others. Some are very knowledgeable about painting. But it isn't something I have any influence over, so there isn't any point in worrying about it.
Peter Doig
#19. Perceptive. She's as smart as she is beautiful. And probably doesn't think she's either one.
M. Leighton
#20. Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry ... and he's a mass murderer.
Thomas Harris
#21. A cell in our body may recognize that it is part of a greater whole, but it may never be able to define all that is beyond it simply because of its limited perceptive capacity. Likewise, all that makes up the universal consciousness will always lie just outside of our capacity to define it.
Rajeev Kurapati
#22. There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.
Michael Chabon
#23. Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise.
Peter Behrens
#24. You really are a know-it-all pain in the ass," I announced snarkily, brushing by him rudely. I stopped quickly at Ellie and Adam to say, "I'm happy for you." And then I hurried by them down the hall to the bathroom to get away from Braden and his perceptive, growly, inflexible ass.
Samantha Young
#25. You don't like to talk to people, do you? I mean, slamming the door in my face was a clue that was hard to miss. I'm perceptive like that.
Susannah Sandlin
#26. There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
Ansel Adams
#27. Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.
Douglas Sirk
#28. Your hand lingered on my butt to make sure I understood, right?"
"I did everything slow, so even someone with limited perceptive abilities could follow what I was doing.
Martyn V. Halm
#29. You're very perceptive for a guy who can go a whole day without talking," she said, peering up at him. "That's why I'm perceptive.
Nicholas Sparks
#30. It seems odd to think of tasting without any perceptive experience, but you are doing it right now. Humans have taste receptor cells in the gut, the voice box, the upper esophagus. But only the tongue's receptors report to the brain.
Mary Roach
#31. The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to.
Lawrence Clark Powell
#32. Sinteen-years -old girls are probably the most sensitive and perceptive group of people in this entire country.
Ryu Murakami
#33. I've enjoyed appearing in Atlantic City. East Coast audiences are a bit brighter than Las Vegas audiences. I think most entertainers will tell you the same thing. The East Coast audiences are more perceptive - especially when it comes to a performer with a theatrical background.
Anthony Newley
#34. To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life.
Elizabeth Goudge
#35. As you evolve and develop your psychic abilities, you will enter into perceptions of life, truth, beauty and you will gain a power to live your life in an intelligent, perceptive and strong way.
Frederick Lenz
#36. Gifted people of discernment, intelligence, and talent flourish in virtually every occupation. Every field produces perceptive and prescient persons whom exhibit the rare capacity to observe what eludes most people.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#37. Let's face it. you become a deeper person amidst adversity. You become a more perceptive, strong, resilient person when life is not handed to you on a silver platter held by a butler.
Cathy Lamb
#38. The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
Barbara Walters
#39. I was like twelve or something, when you first kiss a guy and you see the way the guy reacts, how they get really excited, or whatever. And I'm perceptive, so I think, "Ah, jeez, is that something that I'm able to do?"
Juliette Lewis
#40. His eyes, blind to external reality but highly perceptive in the realm of the inner life, rose from the book to the ceiling and returned to the book.
Machado De Assis
#41. Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.
Eliza Cook
#42. My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.
John Hodgman
#43. Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.
Jon Pareles
#44. Women are increasingly perceptive about the way media images are manipulated
Cynthia Leive
#45. You are beautiful, brilliant, perceptive and pure beyond compare. Your folly lies in being unaware of your inner power and living a mediocre existence.
Pooja Ruprell
#46. Sometimes Blake was shockingly perceptive. And other times he got himself locked in Portaloos.
Lisa Henry
#47. I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
Natalie Babbitt
#48. The population is ignorant of intrigues and power games, therefore we believe it easy to manipulate, but it is in fact, far more perceptive than many of our great minds.
Kenize Mourad
#49. A perceptive French critic has argued that in an age of deepening illiteracy, when even the educated have only a smattering of classical or theological knowledge, erudition is of itself a kind of fantasy, a surrealistic construct.
George Steiner
#50. Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.
Lu Yu
#51. To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.
George Boole
#53. ...graced by some delicate, perceptive and fine-boned writing, is at the heart of the book, and Creel gets it all just right.
Publishers Weekly
#54. Ah ... now they send Captain Perceptive. I knew there had to be a MENSA candidate in this bunch,
Amber Lynn Natusch
#55. The gods know, happiness is a precious and rare commodity, and indeed it seems that the more intelligent and perceptive the individual, the less happy they generally are. The cost of seeing things as they are, I expect.
Steven Erikson
#56. Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive
Lee Child
#57. I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.
Christopher Meloni
#58. Some may say I'm perceptive"
"And what would you say?" I ask, my voice edgy, tired of being toyed with.
"I'd say I agree.
Alyson Noel
#59. To Know others is perceptive,
to know yourself is wise.
To conquer others is forceful,
to conquer yourself is strong.
Lao-Tzu
#60. Of course there is enough to stir our wonder anywhere; there's enough to love, anywhere, if one is strong enough, if one is diligent enough, if one is perceptive, patient, kind enough
whatever it takes.
William H Gass
#61. So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.
Alain Resnais
#62. The thing itself is one; the images are many. What leads to a perceptive understanding of the thing is not the focus on one image, but the viewing of many images together.
Rudolf Steiner
#63. Coup d'Oeil Concept A French expression which loosely translated means the "strike of the eye" or the "vision behind the eye." The closest English concept would be that of intuition. Intuition is defined as "perceptive insight" or "the power to discern the true nature of a situation.
Charles "Sid" Heal
#64. I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.
Ashley Judd
#65. Jesus, of course, had this capacity to see truly. For example, Saint John tells us, "Jesus did not want to entrust himself to them because he knew what was in every heart" (John 2:24). Such intuitive and perceptive knowledge is the nature of discernment.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#66. To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
Lawrence Clark Powell
#67. From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.
Karen Hesse
#68. Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl.
J.D. Salinger
#69. Every individual," wrote another enormously perceptive portrayer of ordinary life, Harriet Beecher Stowe, "is part and parcel of a great picture of the society in which he lives and acts, and his life cannot be painted without reproducing the picture of the world he lived in.
Jack Larkin
#70. There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive illusion. Choose wisely at each fork in the road.
T.F. Hodge
#71. The climate dice are now loaded. Some seasons still will be cooler than the long-term average, but the perceptive person should notice that the frequency of unusually warm extremes is increasing. It is the extremes that have the most impact on people and other life on the planet.
James Hansen
#72. O'Neill was perceptive enough to understand the country had a new leader that it wanted to believe in. After the tragedy of Dallas, after the quicksand of Vietnam, the scandal of Watergate, and the "malaise" of Jimmy Carter, it needed one.
Chris Matthews
#73. Always try to be perceptive and observant in living, sensatory for details and diversity. Always try to see beyond the surface, and look in another perspective. Always try not to judge. Always seeks new experience, embrace and took chances. To live life maximally and develop into a better person.
Nin
#74. When I was twelve, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report, "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far," and this was often the case.
Oliver Sacks
#75. But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.
Laura Bush
#76. no matter how intelligent, perceptive and gifted you were, no matter how entirely you lived for the ascetic rewards of the intellect and eschewed the material world and the ignobility of the flesh, if your heart just gave out . . . That
Iain M. Banks
#77. The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
Samuel Alexander
#78. The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#79. I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning - raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.
Irene Hunt
#80. Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.
Minor White
#81. "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?""
Ansel Adams
#82. There is a moment in the history of every nation, when ... the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant ... with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.
Marsilio Ficino
#83. Designing for children carries a social responsibility beyond bright colors and scaled-down furnishings that only perceptive and informed grown-ups can understand.
Sharon Exley
#84. And even now I wonder if creation is both too beautiful and too horrible for a handful of perceptive souls, and if the realisation of this opposing duality can offer them few options but to take leave of their own accord.
Mitch Cullin
#85. I think rhythm is, when you talk about rhythmic sensibility, quite perceptive in that I like to have at least one thing that is at least common or familiar to the audience.
Herbert
#86. Wisdom is the focus of the perceptive, but a fool's eyes roam to the ends of the earth. Proverbs 17:24
Beth Moore
#87. I'm sometimes sort of in touch with the readership, and they seem to have perceptive questions, for the most part.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#88. WHILE EACH SPIRITED CHILD IS UNIQUE, most are more intense, persistent, sensitive, perceptive, and uncomfortable with change. Many, but not all, possess four additional "bonus" characteristics: aspects of their personality that can make being their parent even more challenging.
Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
#89. You are a multidimensiona l being because your human body houses your spirit body, and your spirit body is not limited by dimensions of time, space, or form. As you grow spiritually, you become more perceptive of these other dimensions.
James Van Praagh
#90. Above, in discussing the perceptive notions of Jesus, remarkable concepts of Plato or the highly introspective lessons of Gautama and Lao Tzu, it took considerable discussion to explore the meaning and relate it to How Life Works. Islam presents no such deep pool of thought to pierce.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#91. A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.
Alan Moore
#92. Perceptive observers saw civilization thinned to a mere veneer, with barbarism surging just beneath the surface, straining for release.
Bruce Brander
#93. When the perceptive child of God stops to weigh the meaning of these words, then notes the connection in which they are found, he or she is driven to say, I must pray, pray, pray. I must put all my energy and heart into prayer. Whatever else I do, I must pray.
R.A. Torrey
#94. Horses are very sensitive and perceptive. You don't have to be physical with them.
Buck Brannaman
#95. Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring.
Russell M. Nelson
#96. A kind word sends vibes of love, if we are perceptive, if we know how love permeates and proliferates with this little gesture of giving.
Balroop Singh
#97. Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum.
James Alan Gardner
#99. I miss my grandmother every day. I miss her vitality, her interest in the lives of others, her courage and determination, her perceptive wisdom, her calm in the face of all difficulties, her steadfast belief in the British people and above all her unstoppable sense of mischievous humour.
Prince Charles
#100. I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive.
Ryan Reynolds
