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Quotes About Perception

Things must be felt with the heart.
~ Helen Keller
Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.
~ Louis Althusser
My girlfriend told me that she was seeing another man. I told her to rub her eyes.
~ Emo Philips
The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.
~ Sebastiao Salgado
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
~ Mary Tyler Moore
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
~ Henry James
Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.
~ Christopher McCandless
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.
~ Karl Kraus
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
~ Marcel Proust
We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways - the ways we react and behave when we love someone.
~ John Gray
There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
~ Ed Koch
My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.
~ Pat Metheny
Looking and seeing are two different things. What matters is the relationship with the subject.
~ Christophe Agou
You must look into people, as well as at them.
~ Lord Chesterfield
For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.
~ Lorrie Moore
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.
~ Alcibiades
I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.
~ Anne Hathaway
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
~ A. A. Milne
I have a great relationship with the blacks. I've always had a great relationship with the blacks.
~ Donald Trump
I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of "gris". But when it comes to you and I, color is all I see.
~ Lady Gaga
Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
~ Byron Katie
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
~ Paul Cezanne
All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression
~ Richard Diebenkorn
The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.
~ Daniel Gilbert