Quotes About Perception

Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and conceptions.

Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

The power and influence of a movie star is curious: I didn't ask for it or take it; people gave it to me. Simply because you're a movie star, people empower you with special rights and privileges.

One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.

I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Opportunities are never lost, just found by those who clearly see the power of trends and timing.

Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.

The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

The Subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what's real and what's imagined.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

Your imaginings can have as much power over you as your reality, or even more.

Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.

Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature.

The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.

Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you

Reality is my drug. The more I have of it, the more power I get and the higher I feel

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.