Quotes About Perceptions

Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.

Women always have to have this soft, maternal, sort of - I don't know - moral center.

There's a feeling among some people that the Republican party is harsh on some things.

I think that girls are always expected to have opinions about each other, and maybe I don't have an opinion about some things, you know?

the stories we tell ourselves long enough become our truths.

when some of the neural "lights" in question have been switched off by injury, the outcome can be connected to a form of generalized depression, or what Dr. Jim Pfaus of Concordia University calls "anhedonia"—a state of pleasurelessness, bleakness, or grayness, in perceptions of the world.

Most of our assumptions about the way women have always thought about "beauty" date from no earlier than the 1830s, when the cult of domesticity was first consolidated and the beauty index invented.

todas las ideologías y los credos, sin distinción, son inflamaciones inducidas del pensamiento. Simulacros.

Although there are alternative perceptions, there are no alternative facts.

Men and women shop very differently, and where women are open to edgy, conceptual looks, very, very few men are.

We usually go to metal and rock festivals, and Glastonbury is not like that.

Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.

Hard audiences tend to be when it's all men. It's when businesses have dos where they're at conferences all day then book a comedian for the evening. They're men of a certain age - basically middle-aged, balding, 50 to 60 years old and I just know I can't make these people laugh hysterically.

The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.

The roots of discrimination, conflict, and war are not to be found outside us. They are within our own way of thinking and looking at the world. The real enemy is our ignorance, our attachment to views, and our wrong perceptions.

The Buddha also taught on many occasions that most of our perceptions are erroneous, and that most of our suffering comes from wrong perceptions.

Somos lo que pensamos y, al mismo tiempo, mucho más que eso, porque también somos nuestros sentimientos, nuestras percepciones, nuestra sabiduría, nuestra felicidad y nuestro amor.

Are you sure of your perceptions?" he asked us. I urge you to write this phrase down on a card and put it up on the wall of your room: "Are you sure of your perceptions?" There is a river of perceptions in you. You should sit down on the bank of this river and contemplate your perceptions.

People, it seemed, were always allowing jealousy, sadness, anger, and pride to determine their behavior. So much suffering was caused by misunderstandings and erroneous perceptions about one another.

Breathing mindfully, you are already finding a refuge in your breath, and you become aware of what's going on in your body, your feelings, your perceptions, your mental formations, and your consciousness. In Buddhism, these are known as the five skandhas ("aggregates"), or elements, that make up what we call a person.

The civil rights vision tends to view group characteristics as mere "stereotypes" and concentrates on changing the public's "perceptions" or raising the public's "consciousness." Yet the reality of group patterns that transcend any given society cannot be denied.

A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.

The nature of mental illness is to remove one from the normal constraints, perceptions, and understandings of the world around, whatever one's rational self may say. It is not merely a question of feeling but of the world being a different sort of place in all one's perceptions. The struggle this brings, and with the struggle the disassociation from those around one, is profound and utterly overwhelming.

It's part of the human condition that we create stories about ourselves and about the world around us. Our stories are often filled with limitations, and we proceed to live our lives inside those limitations. Your