If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them.
Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.
Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.
What I'm after is the liquidity of things, how one things leads you on to the rest. . . The works are about concentration, intention, and paths of thought: the flow of totality in our perception, the fragmentation of the river of phenomenon.
Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.
Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.
Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
The education situation which most effectively promotes significant learning is one in which (1) threat to the self of the learner is reduced to a minimum and (2) differential perception of the field of experience is facilitated
If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war.
A work can do many things at once, and it doesn't have to be just about the world, it could also be about photography, it could be about perception, it could be an exploration of the medium. It could be a document, it could be a visual poetry, and it could be a formal exploration all at the same time.
Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger from their folly, not from their wisdom; their weakness is what fills us with apprehension, not their strength.
I always thought death was cruel, a silent destroyer of breath, of hope, of life. Now I understand it is physical death, the perception of it, the fear of it, which often saves us; for death marks the end of our flesh causing us to question the future of what we are.
I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.
The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.
I don't see people as groups, I see them as individuals.
In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.
All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.
Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed-- borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.