Quotes by category:Perception

I think it's easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I'm a bad person.

Curtis Jackson

perception people thinking

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.

Dalai Lama

perception practice people

The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be satisfied with what we have.

Dalai Lama

perception unhappy feelings

I find that because of modern technological evolution and our global economy, and as a result of the great increase in population, our world has greatly changed: it has become much smaller. However, our perceptions have not evolved at the same pace; we continue to cling to old national demarcations and the old feelings of 'us' and 'them'.

Dalai Lama

our-world perception feelings

We need to believe that we're good people, and we'll do just about anything to maintain that perception.

Dan Ariely

perception believe people

Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.

Dan Brown

born perception reality

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

Dan Harmon

perception complaining people

The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become.

Dan Payne

our-society mail perception

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

Daniel Gilbert

perception artist hands

Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.

Daniel Goleman

perception self feelings

The amygdala, along with related areas..., plays a crucial role in coordinating perceptions with memory and behavior. These regions are especially sensitive to social interactions.

Daniel J. Siegel

perception play memories

Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception.

Daniel Kahneman

risk perception reality

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

Daniel Keys Moran

perception important reality

Question Your Paradigms, your perceptions of reality.

Daniel N. Robinson

paradigm perception reality

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

Daniel Radcliffe

keeping-secrets perception thinking

It's the angle that shows how we see differently. I have always believed that all documentaries are fictional. It's really the angle of the camera, the owner of the perception, that makes the story what it is. The video camera is a fiction.

Darius Khondji

always-believe perception

Being a liberal progressive has been demonized as anti-white or overly on the side of blacks. There's nothing that can be done about that; it's just where we are in the history of our perceptions.

Darryl Pinckney

perception done white

Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.

David Abram

nervous ecosystems perception

Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.

David Abram

ongoing perception taken

But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.

David Blunkett

take-me perception responsibility