Quotes About Perception

Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.

Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye

If you don't know how to look, you'll end up putting down the wrong things, which only dilutes or cancels the power of your artwork.

I don't think people in power have the potential to do anything like that to me. I feel as though as long as our music is available, folks are going to hear it.

The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

When someone in power declares that something is broken that means it's actually fine. What they're really saying is, "Let's change this so I like it and ruin it." Nothing is ever broken.

I'm just afraid somebody's going to stab me one day and think that my power is real and they expect me to start healing.

The implication strongly is that Osama bin Laden is a Hitler, even though he has no state power at all. It's just grotesque if you seriously think about it.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.

A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.

Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.

I would not be able to define my star power as I do not know what that is.

Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.

I understand the power of the internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.

We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.

New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.

Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart.

It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.

... Their power to see environments as they really are.

Now you are no longer a giggling child, smiling at whoever comes along. You are a woman with power. Learn to control your smile, and you can control what men will think about you.