Quite simply, promotions are not just functions of ability, values, or the numbers you hit, but also rest critically on how you are perceived.
The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.
Within our perceived weaknesses and imperfections lies the key to realizing our true strength.
Yes, it's vulnerable and scary to keep your love on toward someone who has become a perceived threat-you cannot guarantee what he or she is going to do. But you can guarantee your own choice. And you can always choose connection.
Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?
Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.
The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [. . . ] be closed with a shout of recognition.
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
Hillary Clinton did not represent, on a lot of policy matters, what the American public perceived to be as a change.
The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires—to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. . . . He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. —chapter 8
I feel any time you enter a dream world it's like you're working out things, it's all inside your mind and you're working it out, be it Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, or the kids in Narnia, they go through this weird journey that's not real, and they're going through this journey psychologically. It's that journey of discovery, of getting onself together, that fantasy and fairy tales are so good at. And while some people still look upon them as completely unrealistic, for me they're more real than most things that are perceived as real.
Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not
I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance, then and only then may it be a source of enchantment.
The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.
Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has never been.
It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.