Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.
What people need to see is this openness, not this church that is so built on structure and religious order that you can't be free and worship God and have a good time because we're so caught up in condemnation, 'I can't say this I can't wear this I can't do this because of this perception of what a Christian is and is not'. It's not about that. God says 'come as you are'.
I found out that changing the perception of myself and the NFL, and reestablishing the notion of being a gentleman was important to me.
From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.
An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen and the number of cases assimilated is the measure of experience.
Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.
I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.
Growth is a detox process, as our weakest, darkest places are sucked up to the surface in order to be released. . . often, it is not a change in partners but rather a change in perception that delivers us to the love we seek.
I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are just trying to render what you see you are not entering into a transformative process. And that's what makes a good painting: the process of transforming and the willingness to leave reality behind.
There are portraits and still-lifes And the first, because 'human' Does not excel the second
Science is nothing but perception.
Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.
Those who are highly evolved, maintain an undiscriminating perception. Seeing everything, labeling nothing, they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness. Thus they are supported by it.
To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.
If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.
Perception determines insanity.
Somewhere after you have few successful films, there is a fear of losing what you have got. It is very easy in the beginning, as you are a risk taker, have nothing to lose, and there is no perception about you.
Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then 'process'.
I am very aware of the impact that television has on people, in changing perceptions.
While [Plato] affirmed with emphasis that the place of the individual in society should not be determined by birth or wealth or any conventional status, but by his own nature as discovered in the process of education, he had no perception of the uniqueness of individuals. For him they fall by nature into classes, and into a very small number of classes at that.