Gradually I saw that it was less interesting for me, as an artist, to frame the world wholly according to my own perceptions. I wanted instead to create situations in which I allowed others' perceptions to surface with my own.
I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question.
Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?
What if nothing needs to change other than our perception of what we see?
One of the most important analytic tools when assessing an investment is an intellectually advantaged disparate view. This includes knowing more and perceiving the situation better than others do. It is also critical to have a keen understanding of what the market expectations for any investment truly are. Thus, the process by which a disparate perception, when correct, becomes consensus should lead to meaningful profit. Understanding market expectation is at least as important as, and often different from fundamental knowledge.
Miracles are a shift in perception.
Without raising human consciousness, whatever we do in the world will only lead to more and more suffering.
Perception is a powerful tool.
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.
We need to believe that we're good people, and we'll do just about anything to maintain that perception.
Perception is a tool that's pointed on both ends.
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
The difference between happiness is no-where and happiness is now-here has something to do with the event, and everything to do with how you see the event. Your perception is key.
I loved working with [ Lars Von Trier], but I've done two films before, so I was quite used to him. He's a man of incredible moods of course, but he's also a hugely perceptive man, and there's no getting away from that. And he's able to put that perception into something like film, so we're very lucky.
A new species is being born inside each one of us. Eventually, we will all express the perceptions and values of this new species.
In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.
Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
I recognize that no matter how old I get, how many records I've done, or what the public perception of me is, there are still exciting things that I haven't done.
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.