Quotes About Perceptions

Questlove is an artist who I respect because he constantly shifts within the idiom, challenging perceptions of hip-hop and black American culture.

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.

You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different.

The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.

These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.

You know, one of the perceptions, again, about FEMA is that there's been a demise in the organization since it became the - under - it started to become part of the Department of Homeland Security.

I've been around for so long, people have their perceptions of me: good, bad or indifferent.

I hope that as a professional snowboarder, Olympian, and now, a Global Ambassador for Special Olympics, I will be able to change perceptions about people with intellectual disabilities.

Writing, for me, when I'm writing in the first-person, is like a form of acting. So as I'm writing, the character or self I'm writing about and my whole self - when I began the book - become entwined. It's soon hard to tell them apart. The voice I'm trying to explore directs my own perceptions and thoughts.

I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.

I sort of challenge people's perceptions of what a gay man is, which is kinda good.

I had English grammar book and started to teach myself. I read 'Catcher in Rye,' in Russian. I was amazed at freedom in 'Catcher in Rye!' Freedom to have those perceptions of life!

People read things on Google, and they have these perceptions, these misconceived perceptions of who you are. At times that hurts, because they really don't know who I am.

I like to play with contrast. It's about changing people's perceptions of people.

I want to try to help shift perceptions people may have of me as an actor.

We all have perceptions or boxes that we put each other in.

Nepal is our closest neighbour, and we must make every effort to ensure that, as a small neighbour, we attend to their perceptions. Even when they are wrong, we have an obligation to create an environment in which the common people in Nepal feel that in India they have a great friend.

I can neither change people's perceptions nor change my background, and nor would I wish to.

There was a lot of struggle. People have different perceptions about you and sometimes looks also can limit you as an actor.

Women's sport is embedded in the mainstream consciousness now, and that is a hugely positive thing. That's not to say that our sport can't get even more popular - because I think it can - but perceptions have definitely changed for the better.

It's not at all a far jump to think that overall perceptions of gender - and what is and is not important in gender roles - would carry over from life to fiction.

Art is nothing but perceptions and horizons of feeling.

Bow down , I am the emperor of perceptions.