Quotes About Perception

Science is wonderful at explaining what science is wonderful at explaining, but beyond that it tends to look for its car keys where the light is good.

It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can't fully get really lost in them.

When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say "What lovely music!

Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot.

When I design a car, I want people to look at it and go, 'Wow, that's kind of interesting, ' and do a second take.

You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

Bluntly put, there's no chance that your doctor, dentist, or attorney is a high-school dropout. Your stockbroker, however, just might be.

The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.

I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.

But i was high, when i finally had the chance to see, everything thats pretty aint' always good for me.

All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.

There isn't any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life.

More simply, regard everything as a dream. Life is a dream. Death is also a dream, for that matter; waking is a dream and sleeping is a dream. Another way to put this is, "Every situation is a passing memory.

We could say that the word mindfulness is pointing to being one with our experience, not dissociating, being right there when our hand touches the doorknob or the telephone rings or feelings of all kinds arise. The

Labeling our thoughts during meditation practice is a powerful support that reconnects us with the fresh, open, unbiased dimension of our mind.

Thoughts will run us around in circles if we buy into them, but really they are like dream images. They are like an illusion—not really all that solid. They are, as we say, just thinking.

the difference between what is neurosis and what is wisdom is very hard to perceive, because somehow the energy underlying both of them is the same.

Looking for alternatives is the only thing that keeps us from realizing that we're already in a sacred world. Looking for alternatives—better sights than we see, better sounds than we hear, a better mind than we have—keeps us from realizing that we could stand with pride in the middle of our life and realize it's a sacred mandala.