Top 99 Time Perception Sayings

#1. It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of forever could come tomorrow.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#2. Rhythm is a perception of time ... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.

Pablo Picasso

#3. Any thief or criminal or robber who enters another country in order to steal should expect to be exposed to murder at any time. For the American forces to expect anything from me personally reflects a very narrow perception.

Osama Bin Laden

#4. I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.

Jack White

#5. There is that gnawing feeling that we are far more than what we believe ourselves to be. Maybe it's time to believe the gnawing.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. Different creatures have different eyes. Human eyes (unlike, say, a cat's eyes, or an octopus's) are only made to see one version of reality at a time.

Neil Gaiman

#7. Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole universe emerges from the activity of the little specks of jelly inside our skull.

Abhijit Naskar

#8. Perception always makes precedence over reality
.
Time explodes everything.

They will seek, we will create, they will find.

Fraser Beath McEwing

#9. 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

#10. While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time.

John Edward Williams

#11. Even the water, grey and listless as it tossed against the harbour wall, seemed fixed in time; as if peering hard enough into its depths would reveal the tips of Peter's fingers, himself still swaying underwater, cradled in the sea's mouth.

Ava Bloomfield

#12. If there is a public perception at all, they see the producer as a big old guy who smokes a cigar and has lots of money and lots of power. That's not what a producer is and, if it ever was what a producer was, it certainly hasn't been for a long time.

Marshall Herskovitz

#13. The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.

Edmund Husserl

#14. There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#15. With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

Chris Robinson

#16. And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.

Harlan Coben

#17. We see eternity through a microscopic window of time.

Debasish Mridha

#18. Man is evolving ... but it's difficult to see his progress with a Western perception of time. The Hindus think of time in much larger segments. They watch the hour hand of the clock while we in the West are preoccupied with the second hand.

David Lynch

#19. I've been a Christian for a long time, and I think that Christianity gets a bad rap. I think that people's perception of what a Christian is today is something that is close-minded and narrow, and that's not what I am.

Andie MacDowell

#20. Did you?' the producer said. 'He's so clownish on the surface, all joke and dazzle. How in the world could you have seen it?'
'But I did. The moment I met him," she said. "A fucking supernova. Every day since.' She thought, but did not say, almost.

Lauren Groff

#21. The first thing we should do in order to grasp the realm of time travel is by redefining
general perception and common concepts regarding time within our daily language structure.

Toba Beta

#22. I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.

Ernst Toller

#23. The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.

Giovanni Ruffini

#24. Experiment participants asked to pick which politician looked more confident in a photograph picked the winner of the race two thirds of the time. This phenomenon held up even when they only glimpsed the photographs for a 10th of a second.

Jonathan Haidt

#25. Her changing perception of time had altered the sum of her reflections.

Lori Lansens

#26. A film is like a message dropped in a bottle in the sea that somebody finds. Every time somebody finds it, it's a miracle. But, I don't know what the perception will be. I can know what I tried to do, but I never know what the perception is.

Jaco Van Dormael

#27. There is an inherent unity and harmony in the universe. The divisions and disharmony we find on earth are created by the perception of separateness that people developed over a period of time.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

#28. Our perception of time is indeed our reality.

Brigid Schulte

#29. But did it ever occur to you, my friend, that force and matter are merely the barriers to perception imposed by time and space?

H.P. Lovecraft

#30. The life you are living is your creation, your perception of reality that you can change at any time.

Dawn Abraham

#31. We have these words 'space' and 'time,' but you can't touch them. They're not objects, they're not things, they go forever. Space and time are really tools of animal sense perception, the way we organize and construct information.

Robert Lanza

#32. Notwithstanding how good you are, you shall be perceived as bad by the masses when you take the extraordinary steps that lead to distinctiveness which the masses may regard as bad

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#33. While your beliefs may change over time, the truth will not

Lenon Honor

#34. People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.

Warren Spector

#35. The universe is made up of an endless ocean of life itself. It is an endless ocean of itself. And for a time it binds itself together in particularized forms. Those forms have perception and they perceive themselves as being separate.

Frederick Lenz

#36. The one correction possible for false perception must be true perception. It will not endure. But for the time it lasts it comes to heal. For true perception is a remedy with many names. Forgiveness, salvation, Atonement, true perception, all are one.

Foundation For Inner Peace

#37. Sometimes isn't it better to have some time and space to ourselves? We will have new perception of things.

Ai Yazawa

#38. I used to be in my own world and keep to myself all the time, so there may have been a perception about my reserved demeanour that was misconstrued as arrogance. But when people interact with you, then they know the real you.

Shahid Kapoor

#39. There are people who desperately want to change the world.
I wonder if it could be measured, because the world is already
in the state of continuously change since the beginning of time.
Or they may just want their names etched nicely on men history.

Toba Beta

#40. The coma carried me into a world where time and space seemed to vanish; it was a dreamlike existence in which people, places, and situations shifted as quickly as thoughts. I had a profound sense of being at a crossroads, a turning point, somewhere between death and life ...

Hal Zina Bennett

#41. Smartass Disciple: Which one was first created, time or things?
Master of Stupidity: No things, no changes. No changes, no time.

Toba Beta

#42. Time falls on us, like rain, it falls like rain until we drown in it, and sometimes, it's like the drains overflow, and time just - pools up, it seeps, it gathers in the corners.

Michael Montoure

#43. I'm not worried about misconception or a perception that's bad. If I were, I'd be chasing something all the time.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

#44. Space and time are not objects of perception, but qualities of awareness

Deepak Chopra

#45. The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

Alfred North Whitehead

#46. 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

#47. Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.

Douglas Coupland

#48. I realized some time ago that, while there are really, really high quality schools in urban India - my daughter attends one - there are very few high quality schools in rural India. And that is mostly because of the perception that there are not enough people to pay a reasonable fee in rural India.

Shaffi Mather

#49. All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.

Idries Shah

#50. Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.

Idries Shah

#51. The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.

Ashim Shanker

#52. A day is a day. It's just a measurement of time. Whether it's a good day or a bad day is up to you. It's all a matter of perception.

Donald L. Hicks

#53. I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

Angelina Jolie

#54. Like I've told you before, Beverly, I don't care where we live as long as we're together." Vance ... "The Elder Effect

D.L. Given

#55. My own perception was that although it kind of sucks to be stuck in a contract you signed a long time ago, when you're having success, it gives you some leverage.

Slim Moon

#56. AMELIA: .....thank you for understanding that I have no perception of time when I pick a release date.

Amelia Hutchins

#57. If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Idries Shah

#58. For most of us, space perception is a much easier concept than time.

Brian Ledger

#59. Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

Elon Musk

#60. Hurry is a manifestation of fear; he who fears not has plenty of time. If you at with perfect faith in your own perceptions of truth, you will never be too late or too early; and nothing will go wrong.

Wallace D. Wattles

#61. Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.

V.S. Ramachandran

#62. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him..

Thomas Szasz

#63. Painted time is a different zone. This is why I don't believe that a painting - although I've been accused of it many times now - can be truly topical. A painting's physicality gives it a different persistence and a different perception.

Luc Tuymans

#64. All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Paulo Coelho

#65. That is to say, our physical ability to understand time has been honed by evolutionary pressures to select for traits useful for survival, in all aspects, and time perception is no exception or special case or even magical or mysterious case.

Charles Yu

#66. I think Putin has changed, for sure. He has changed over time and he has been emboldened by, whether it's true or not, the perception is that we've pulled back, so people do change and this is an example of that.

Jeb Bush

#67. Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit; the pieces of the plot snap together momentarily and give men faint glimpses beyond the veil of this everyday blindness we call reality.

Robert E. Howard

#68. In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

H.G.Wells

#69. To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.

John Locke

#70. Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of childhood, when the sensum was not immediately and automatically subordinated to the concept. Interest in space is diminished and interest in time falls almost to zero.

Aldous Huxley

#71. One's perception of time was relative to one's desire for its passage.

Beth Fantaskey

#72. I guess pretty much everything in life is about the perception of the observer. That maybe time just moves the quickest at the end.

Jasmine Warga

#73. I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.

Katherine Anne Porter

#74. An Idea is nothing but Information, It won't do us any harm until we accept it as perception of truth in our mind, which in time will potentially evolve and construct major events in history.

Djayawarman Alamprabu

#75. People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them, what good do they do?

Eric Davis

#76. Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?

Douglas Coupland

#77. I don't want to look. I've got to look." Vance ... "Vital Perception

D.L. Given

#78. Just hit the blunt one time and see if it don't change your perception on whats important in your life.

Katt Williams

#79. People are different in reality from the way you've seen them while making scenarios in your mind. For one thing, they're less consistent. They surprise you all the time.

Ruth Rendell

#80. The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.

Max Horkheimer

#81. Time itself is only as real as your own mental discrimination between the revelation and concealment of the one Light.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#82. Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.

Peter Watts

#83. 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

#84. It's all about emotions, they rule us all. The way we perceive reality is linked to how happy or sad we are, it even affects our perception of time, so this is an emotional problem and I am unable to fathom it at all.

Steve Merrick

#85. Time is always standing still; we are only changing.

Debasish Mridha

#86. The warped perception of time is a hallmark of trauma.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#87. All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you.

Deepak Chopra

#88. People are afraid of change. Change is inevitable to life. Change actually has the mask of pushing us out of comfort zone. Every time we learn, go through life experiences our perception/Emotional chemistry is changing. Embrace change because we are becoming a more polished version of ourselves.

Matthew Donnelly

#89. When we truly allow ourselves to feel our own pain, over time it comes to seem less personal. We start to recognize that what we've perceived as our pain is, at a deeper level, the pain inherent in human existence.

Sharon Salzberg

#90. We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#91. Where there is no consciousness, there is no time.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#92. The media has enormous power. The media is undergoing huge changes now. It seemed like it's time to step back and look at how the media shapes our lives and our perceptions of reality.

Thomas Hunt Morgan

#93. 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.

#94. The general perception of writers' lives is that they are exciting and desirable. But you generally spend most of your time cooking and cleaning.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#95. Time has a way of stripping everything that is apparent about a thing away, leaving the Perception of a thing unrecognizable. But in the process, Time bares the true essence and beauty of the thing.

Vivian Marie Feggans

#96. What you see is not what wee se. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.

Don DeLillo

#97. It was thought, perception, sensations that interested her, the conscious mind as a river through time, and how to represent its onward roll, as well as all the tributaries that would swell it, and the obstacles that would divert it. If only she could reproduce the clear light of a summer's morning,

Ian McEwan

#98. Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.

Margaret Visser

#99. I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

Jim Brown

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