Perceive Quotes

You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it.

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends.

The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.

If the mind is open the individual will soon perceive the preciousness of a truth which initially appeared rather dull to him but now is illumined by the spirit's light.

I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.

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.

Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.

Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.

Perception is a wave. You change as your perception of something changes because you define yourself as a reflection of whatever you happen to perceive.

What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom in every moment.

Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.

Vipassana: looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct, piercing all the way through so as to perceive the most fundamental reality of that thing.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.

They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.

We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

You are the knower of knowledge; you perceive perceiving. Come to this place, and see if any questions remain there within you.

Life can show up no other way than that way in which you perceive it.

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.

How the world perceives you is largely out of your control.

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman.

The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.

Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.

When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in fact, exist

If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

Like a fly bouncing uselessly off a closed window, I'm caught at a moment when the effort of finding new ways to perceive the world feels just out of reach for me.

When you perceive yourself as spirit, you will not simply feel love - you will BE love.

Our consciousness is our contribution to reality. What we perceive as real, becomes real.

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try to tell you where I'm coming from and also relate it to what I think other people perceive.

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves

If you are psychic you can perceive that someone may love you and they can't show it. Someone may seek to harm you and they mask it.

There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We can just be in a world of awe and wonder. That's the best we can do.