Quotes with perception

  • Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.
  • The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
  • Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Albert Einstein A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Lionel Trilling A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Barry Unsworth All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Chogyam Trungpa Any perception can connect us to reality properly and fully. What we see doesn't have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.
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  • Billy Joel Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Billy Joel Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Alan Moore Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.
    Alan Moore
    English writer (1953 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Martina Navratilova Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.
    Martina Navratilova
    American Tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Raymond Chandler Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • A. E. Housman Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
    The Name and Nature of Poetry
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Mark Twain I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious - except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Don Delillo If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • William Blake If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • H.G. Wells 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
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Alexis Carrel Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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