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" Quotes and Sayings About perception

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

Master Metaphor Genius Perception
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There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Known Thing Between Door
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And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in the belly begin to grow cold. You may be insecure, inadequate, mistaken or potbellied. Death, panic, depression, and disillusionment may be near you. But you are not just that. You are accepted.' Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted.

Grace Old Die Confuse
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“The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.”

People Achieving Perception Response
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Great literature should 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.

Sharpen Blunt Mellow Personal
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Never allow the perception of others to play a substantial part in your own vision of yourself and your future.

Allow Play Future Part
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.

Appearance Authentic Beyond Characteristic
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.

Another Any Connect Experiences
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No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.

Beings Home Human Planet
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All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Knowledge Origins Our Perceptions
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

Above Achieve Compassion Hope
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Above Achieve Children Compassion
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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Comic Feeling Humor Opposite
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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.

Being Central Dead Enjoy
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We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.

Inspirational-quotes Motivational-quotes Self-confidence-quotes Success-quotes
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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

Reality Scope Process Adjustment
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

Change Daughters Fathers I Think
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

Anything Conscious Enslaved Freed
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I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

Having I Think Most Peace
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I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.

Absolutely Got Perception Properly
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We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us
Allow People Limited Perception
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There is no truth. There is only perception.

Only There Perception Truth
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“Neutrality is the greatest resting place for perception, it is the hammock of the being. This is the most wonderful thing when your own senses become so empty of the ‘You’ that you begin to see the harmony of existence and feel it within your own self.”

Feel Neutrality Greatest Resting
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Mistakes Inadequacies Perception Logic
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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Surprised Attention Philosophers Humor
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A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

Painter World Craftsman People
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There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

Because Children Could Long
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Your reality is a shadow of your perception.

Reality Shadow Perception
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For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

Able Believe Better Degrees
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The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.

Certainty Clearly Clumsy Divine
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So if you make the dislike or perception of people the barometer by which you adjust your life-pattern, then you have completely missed it. Live your life according to the dictates of your conscience and your natural inclinations, so long as they’re within the bounds of legality

Perception People Barometer Life
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One movie production can travel the world and change Nigeria’s perception in the world.

One movie Travel World Perception
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I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

Anyone Criticized Else Increase
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There's a common perception among college administrators that they should conceal the high level of sexual assaults that take place on their campuses because it would bring discredit to the university, bring them a bad name if it was publicized.

Administrators Among Bad Because
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The system of creating opportunities for those who were by law excluded has to be created. But you mustn’t create a perception that the process is devoid of competitiveness…devoid of building a world-class, sustainable black business community.

System Creating opportunities Law excluded
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You can go from object to object, from plant to plant, from animal to animal and regard them as symbols for the spiritual. In this way, you make your imaginative capacities fluid and release them from the sharp contours of sense perception.

Animal Capacities Fluid Go
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My perception, life is beautiful with beautiful people around you, its otherwise if you make it so.. Beautiful people make beautiful stories, beautiful stories make a beautiful life, a beautiful life should definitely make a beautiful after life (for those who believe there is one).

Life Beautiful people Around you Stories
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Truth travels down from the heights of philosophy to the humblest walks of life, and up from the simplest perceptions of an awakened intellect to the discoveries which almost change the face of the world. At every stage of its progress it is genial, luminous, creative.

Truth travels Heights Philosophy Walks
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Perception and reality are two different things.

Perception Reality Different things
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Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.

Nothing Completely verifies Perception Thing
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Do not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define you. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. Never forget that He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Allow Other people Limited perceptions Define you
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There is convincing evidence that carefully planned mass media campaigns can reduce substance abuse by countering false perceptions that drug use is normative and by influencing personal beliefs that motivate drug use.

Convincing evidence Carefully planned Media campaigns Reduce substance
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The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

Good life Any river Perception Its music
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If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

I make A fool Myself Who cares
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As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.

The heat Coal differs Do memory Perceptions
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Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

Music itself Color blind The media Radio stations
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

Imagination Living power Human Perception
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You stop explaining yourself when you realize people only understand from their level of perception.

You stop Explaining yourself You realize Only understand
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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.

Interested People's Perception Problem
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The peace that we’re after lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself.

Peace Personality Disguise Effort
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