Perception Quotes - page 4

I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things. (Tamara Mellon)
In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story. View quote
Cheryl Strayed
Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance. View quote
MC Hammer
Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress. View quote
B.K.S. Iyengar
Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete. View quote
Naomi Wolf
I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception. View quote
Glen Duncan
Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that. View quote
David Chalmers
A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience. View quote
Abbas Kiarostami
My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life. View quote
Abbas Kiarostami
Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers. View quote
Layne Staley
I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are, through the defects of our society and our educational system, un-available to us without such drugs. (Lester Grinspoon)
Art is a tool by which society extends its perception. View quote
Arne Glimcher
Sure, there's a chunk of African-Americans out there who associate the Republican Party with racism, frankly particularly in the Deep South. It's an unfair perception, but it exists. Over a period time, that perception will die away if Republicans are focusing on issues that happen to impact African-Americans. View quote
Artur Davis
In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires. View quote
Alan Autry
I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well. View quote
Calvin Harris
I'm aware that success can overwhelm you. The perception of you can be elevated to such a status that it's not you any more. View quote
Chris Ofili
The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are. View quote
David Selby
That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns. View quote
Daniel Okrent
People look at me, and they have a certain perception, and they slap a label on me. The guy you saw in a wrestling ring is not who I am. View quote
Dave Bautista
I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical. View quote
Erin O'Connor
Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong. (Eddie Trunk)
I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament. View quote
Edward Burtynsky
I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends. View quote
Fred Frith
Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities. View quote
Fred Tomaselli
If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn. View quote
Floyd Abrams