Perceptions Quotes

We don’t yet have a body of scientific knowledge about evil to be called a facet of psychology. Therefore, religious reasoning for actions will always be at the discretion of the psychologist, thus making them the judge and jury over what is delusion and what is a spiritual experience that has to be sedated.

~ Shannon L. Alder

To fight adversity, to improvise, to solve problems, and to save the coup, I had gathered all my senses into unusual configurations, which made me grow wild and enhanced my perceptions.

~ Philippe Petit

Maybe the reason faith is called faith is because seeing doesn’t lead to belief, but belief transforms the way we see.

~ Josh Ross

Create an opportunity for change to have way in your attitude and lifestyle. Sometimes, it not us, but our perceptions scare away change!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

In most cases, failure is not determined by the obstacles we face, but by how we approach them and what our perceptions whisper to when on encountering eventualities.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.

~ Amy Neftzger

A fundamental shift of our perceptions and consciousness are necessary for any great improvements for mankind.

~ Debasish Mridha

Just change your attitude and perception to change your life.

~ Debasish Mridha

Every cell in the body has eyes to see and perceptions to feel.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue can also convey a sense of place. Even so, I insist, the traveler invents the place. Feeling compelled to comment on my travel books, people say to me, I went there---China, India, the Pacific, Albania-- and it wasn't like that. I say, Because I am not you.

~ Paul Theroux

Your thoughts are based on your perceptions and those thoughts are capable to refine your perceptions again.

~ Bikash Bhandari

Happiness depends on our perceptions and thoughts.

~ Debasish Mridha

The single biggest thing I’ve done to improve my relationship with others, was to improve the relationship I have with myself. I became lovable when I was able to love myself. No one can love you, if you don’t love you. Accept, nurture and love yourself as you are. You’ll be amazed how much it will also change how others perceive you.

~ Akiroq Brost

Although others can devalue who we are and what we do it is entirely up to us, whether we accept or reject it. Whenever we disagree with the offered opinion we can thank for it and then move on. There is no need to prove at all that we have a different perception of ourselves from what we are being offered.

~ Raphael Zernoff

Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not. You stand two of you lot next to each other, and you could be continents away for all it means anything.

~ Neil Gaiman

There are no barriers to poetry or prophecy; by their nature they are barrier-breakers, bursts of perceptions, lines into infinity. If the poet lies about his vision he lies about himself and in himself; this produces a true barrier.

~ Lenore Kandel

Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Only if we transvalue the plain-vanilla standards of our life, we may bring back things to light and sense the lies behind perceptions. (Behind the frosted glass)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Afraid of offending with an off word or the slightest insensitivity, I keep an unobtrusive and silent distance. Nevertheless, my pursed lips and offish stance are perceived as cold, managing to offend all.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The energy you bring, positive or negative, dictates your perceptions, receptions and radiations.

~ T.f. Hodge

I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.

~ Tom Conrad

Minutes turn into hours that add up to days amounting to weeks that become  months melting into yearsaccumulating for decadesto pile up for centuriesand ultimately form minutes again―just on a grander, divine scale.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

We wait for the rains to cease, the clouds to part, and the sun to shine before saying life is good. Ironically, it is because we endure the storms that life seems so wonderfully bright at their passing.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Do you think he's the murderer?It's worse than that -- he's an actor!

~ Julian Fellowes

Perception does not define who we are, but it does define where we are limited, and where we are not yet free.

~ Georgi Y. Johnson

As humans, reality for us is largely based on other people's perceptions. If there's 20 bodies in your crawl space but you haven't been caught yet, you tell yourself you're still a birthday clown, and that's how you keep doing it.

~ Dan Harmon

Doubt is a disease that infects the mind creating a mistrust of peoples motives and ones own perceptions. Doubt has the ability to call into questions everything you ever believed about someone and reinforce the darkest suspicions of our inner circle.

~ Emily Thorne

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.

~ Michael Shermer

Dissociation, a form of hypnotic trance, helps children survive the abuse…The abuse takes on a dream-like, surreal quality and deadened feelings and altered perceptions add to the strangeness. The whole scene does not fit into the 'real world.' It is simple to forget, easy to believe nothing happened.

~ Renee Fredrickson

... to be forceful was not the same as being powerful and to be gentle was not the same as being fragile...

~ Deborah Levy

Truth is a battle of perceptions. People only see what they're prepared to confront. It's not what you look at that matters, but what you see. And when then different perceptions battle against one another, the truth has a way of getting lost. And the monsters find a way of getting out.

~ Emily Thorne

I mulled over the implications and decided not to waste my time worrying about what everyone else thought, or to bother attempting to change their perceptions. My time at the Keep was just a stopover. Let them wonder.

~ Maria V. Snyder

People think - Rebel, Adamant, Egoistic, Impractical, ProudMy answer - Unconventional, Fighter, Uncompromising, Dreamer, God's Masterpiece Perception Matters

~ Henna Sohail

The thought of being whoever I want is a terrifying thing, because I have only ever been who everyone has wanted me to be.

~ Dianna Hardy

There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.

~ Joe Hill

Those who do not succeed do not believe in their ability to exercise the potential power to forge beyond perceptions of limitations.

~ T.f. Hodge

What breaks you down is not the amount of pressure you feel at one time, but it’s the way you perceive and handle it.

~ Ashish Patel

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

~ Gail Sheehy

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci