Quotes About Perception

Sometimes I joke around that if I weren't a musician, I would be a power lifter. I don't think people expect it from me because I'm little.

I travel with a boom box. When I get on a plane, I stuff the power cord for the boom box into the battery compartment. From an outsider's point of view, it looks like I've got it all wrong.

Power is founded upon opinion.

A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls.

They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a signal of overwhelming power.

Don't underestimate the power of the nonverbal. You'd be amazed how many people come in for interviews with poor posture, weak handshakes, and blank stares.

How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the eye and ear, the sense for inner and outer meaning.

What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will.

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that's incorrect.

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.

It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a sense of size.

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.

When you think about people, you give them power.

You get too excited over big flashes, Tunstall. Mages rely on that to make you think they have more power than you.

If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.

They go to Paris to learn how to make bombs and they come back having learned only how to write poetry, which they think is more explosive.

In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is undermined, what the general masses feel tend to become the common rule.

You are not what others think you are. You are what God knows you are.

Life is not what happens to you but what you think about it.

A person who has lost his power of love has become blind to the beauties of life.

When your heart jumps every time your camera locks focus...You've become a photographer.