Perception Quotations | Page 3

The perception is that they take too long and are too expensive.

The perception is that these kids are not waving American flags and standing for a better America. These kids are denouncing America. They're demanding that America change their laws, give them free health care, give them free education ? that it's their right.

The perception is that teams in the Southern Section play better basketball. We'd like to prove them wrong.

The perception is that somehow they're paper tigers, and they aren't. Everybody needs to hope the higher seeds hold on and win their tournaments. If Gonzaga had gotten beat the other night, that would have taken up one of the other spots.

The perception is that religious education is just for children, but that's not the case. It would be unfair to leave the adults out. It's for the whole family, the community. We're always encouraged to have everyone join in and grow in their faith.

The perception is that politics is for sale and politicians are for sale.

The perception is that Philadelphia firms come in with a chip on their shoulder and have this 'why Philadelphia?' mentality. I was told by more senior students not to tell them that I was interviewing in other cities. I think at one firm it really hurt me when I mentioned it. I know a lot of people leave those interviews frustrated that they have to prove their allegiance, and they don't want to work at those firms.

The perception is that it's too high end, too futuristic, but I think we will see prices and use models to support it.

The perception is that it's not the greatest city, but Detroit is an up-and-coming city. After the Super Bowl is over, people are going to see that it's a lot better than advertised.

The perception is that it is more generous than it is. Grants are generally only for those that are completely wiped out or uninsured.

The perception is that foreign investment is not good for jobs.

The perception is it's environmentalist versus environmentalist, ... But it's environmentalists versus the power cartel.

The perception is if two products are side by side, with one labeled as chemical-free and one not, the chemical-free product will go for a higher price. The main reason Australia has implemented the use of biologicals as control agents is because of the very high market price for organic beef in the Japanese market,

The perception is all we are is smokestacks and empty buildings. It's an opportunity to let the world see what's happening here.

the perception in the world was that they tried to strangle us. In Lebanon we violated this basic rule and we were unable to hold what we took.

The perception in the marketplace has a tremendous impact.

The perception here is that traffic on the Internet was weak and, definitely, Yahoo!'s numbers are going to be used as a proxy or benchmark for the other players in the space.

The perception has been sort of an 'us-against-them' mentality in the NHL for a long period of time. I think this addresses that perception, and builds the idea of a partnership.

The perception has been growing that it is better that there be a clear line of distinction between the people the board hires and the people hired by the corporation.

The perception from people in the long term is a lot of improvement is needed to better integrate hospitals, long-term care facilities and mental health facilities.

The perception for us is we're going to be great. We have guys people may be worried about, but we're not worried about them. You're talking about two guys that are playmakers.

The perception essentially has been that you get sappy movies for women over 35, and I really want to change that.

The perception could be that that relationship would influence the outcome of this transaction. It's one thing to lobby, where you represent a client, but you're not involved in the decision-making process. It's another thing when you ... can impact someone you have a business relationship with.

The perception coming in is that you're going to be opening yourself up to personal attacks and ridicule from other councilors.

The perception by the core value voters is that Congress has not done enough to advance their core issues. We believe they have been at work, but there is more work to be done to convince their constituencies.

The perception among high school students and their parents is that the game is over, that all computing jobs are going overseas. It's an extraordinarily widely held misperception.

The perception among C-suite executives that the global economy is getting stronger should be a hopeful indicator for global business. As optimism for the global economic climate improves, top executives are more apt to focus on improving their own businesses by spending for programs that might have been curtailed or postponed and by hiring new employees to carry out their growth plans.

The perception among a lot of customers is that nobody understands Microsoft products like Microsoft. Many of them want the security of that direct relationship with Microsoft.

I can feel how an audience is reacting when I'm on a stage, but when you are on stage, your perception is distorted. That's something you just have to know. It's like pilots that fly at high Gs and they lose, sometimes, consciousness and hand/eye coordination and they just have to know that that's going to happen. They have to be trained to not try to do too much while they are doing that. So when you are on stage, you have to be aware that you are wrong about how it feels a lot of times.

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

There is no longer a perception that eBay has few meaningful competitors.

What has changed in the 1990s is a changed perception of the world,

Unless the market can get a firm perception that the US Fed is ending its interest rate hike cycle, the ongoing weakness of the yen may not come to an end.

Unfortunately in tourism, perception is reality. Because if a tourist or visitor perceives it unsafe they are not going to come. So we've got to deal with both. I think the reality is we have a crime problem and we have to deal with it.

To perceive means to immobilize. We seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

With what we have here right now, ... you'll see the landscape change and be better than what the perception is.

We know from the recent Super Bowl in this country that a lot of these beer ads were aimed at men between 21 and 34. So we certainly have this perception that young people are drinking the most, but that's not necessarily the case.

I found out that changing the perception of myself and the NFL, and reestablishing the notion of being a gentleman was important to me.

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

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.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable.

Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time perhaps more old-fashioned than modern.

These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.

But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.

The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all practical intents and purposes this is purely some kind of lightshow that's being put on in the kind of neurons in our brain. The whole of reality.

The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is made of nothing but signs and symbols. Nothing but language. Even God requires language before conceiving the Universe. See Genesis: “In the beginning was the Word.

In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously.

A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity. It creates in the mind of the prospect the perception that there is no product on the market quite like your product.

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

Perception of ideas, rather than the storing of them, should be the aim of education.

We want to see how the perception of Onslow Memorial Hospital compares with the perception of these other hospitals.

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.

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely on their state of mind. They believe that he does; let them change their minds, and he does not.

In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its symbol.

Experiencing a massage therapy session is its own best advertisement for changing perceptions. A recent national consumer survey found Americans had overwhelmingly positive feelings about their massage experience. Ninety-four percent express favorable feelings. Fully 85 percent expressed very favorable feelings about their most recent massage, with 37 percent rating it a perfect ten-out-of-ten. What is striking is that there are very few detractors. Most of those who haven't yet received a massage simply haven't felt a need for it

It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.

Therefore we believe there is really no basis for the continued perception in the minds of the public that an unreasonable request will be made on businesses around Sabina Park to take down their business signs.

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.

The thing about branding is it isn't etched in stone. A brand is a mark or an image or a perception we stamp on a product, a concept or an ideal, but it doesn't last forever. Like anything else, it needs to be nurtured and reinforced, or it will start to fade.

The only revolution that will change anything is a revolution of perception.

The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.

I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.

Let us fix our attention out of ourselves as much as possible; let us chase our imagination to the heavens, or to the utmost limits of the universe; we never really advance a step beyond ourselves, nor can conceive any kind of existence, but those perceptions, which have appeared in that narrow compass.

What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity.

Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not.

I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It's more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.

If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it.

You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside from limiting conceptions and dogmas.

All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.

It is a common perception that actors don’t get along.

What's the first image that comes to mind when you think of a mental hospital? Jack Nicholson in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' right? We need to change that perception, and places like this one are doing that.

[The Polaroid camera is] a system that will be a partner in perception, enabling us to see the objects in the world around us more vividly than we can see them without it, a system to be an aid to memory and a tool for exploration.

It is a little surprising given the strength of the economy that there is a perception - at least among some of the public - that the economy is not very good.

We call our intuition our sixth sense, but in reality it would be called our first sense, because it's rooted in quantum nature of reality. It was around long before our solar system and our planetary system were even formulated or even organized. It is at the basis of how our normal sensing works. So instead of being our sixth sense or even â€" using the parapsychological term â€" "extrasensory perception," it's not. It's at the basis of our perception, and that's the quantum world.

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts, they paint watercolors of perception.

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

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

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

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal...

There is a real perception that there are two sets of rules in this country when it comes to police action. One for African Americans, Latinos and other minorities and another for whites and the rest of society. If there is to be one America, then this racial divide must stop.

The only time I was under oath was Monday, and I told the absolute truth, ... Those were not sworn statements ... My perception was that it was legal jockeying.

The process gave rise to the perception that the fix was in, leaving some to gloat at having scammed the situation, and others angry at being unheard. And that is the context with which the Senate must -- now finds itself, and must pursue a legitimate outcome.

The processes of perception are inaccessible; only the products are conscious and, of course, it is the products that are necessary.

When I do weight-loss education or diabetes education I really emphasize portion size. Measure things out so they get a visual perception of what a standard portion should look like.

Another trouble with poetry - and I'm gonna stop the list at two - is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes for granted an interest on the reader's part in the poet's autobiographical life, in the poet's memories, problems, difficulties and even minor perceptions.

Clothing totally changes my perception of how I feel about myself depending on what it is that I'm wearing.

We, in America, love a story - we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story protects a certain perception as we pick sides.

With the exception of weapons of mass destruction, there is no other type of attack that is more effective than suicide terrorism. The perception is that it's impossible to guard against.

The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.

All perception is a gamble.

A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.

When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts, emotions - then it can be said that you are enlightened... except that you wouldn't think or speak of yourself as 'enlightened', because that would instantly create another mind-based conceptual identity and so it would be the end of 'your' enlightenment.

Underneath the world of sense perceptions and the world of mind activity, there is the vastness of being. There's a vast spaciousness. There's a vast stillness and there's a little ripple activity on the surface, which isn't separate, just like the ripples are not separate from the ocean.