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Quotes About Perception

Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers
~ J.P. Moreland
I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
~ Henri Matisse
People just tell me I'm supposed to be sensitive, and I'm not. But I think I'm very emotional. I'm very caring.
~ Vince Staples
Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?
~ Michael Shurtleff
People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.
~ Virat Kohli
What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.
~ Pablo Picasso
Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.
~ Jay Maisel
I don't know if that's philosophy or if that's something else, but to me it [digital filming] has an emotional feeling , that this materiality, the loss of the materiality.
~ Keanu Reeves
Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.
~ Bill Hicks
Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.
~ Steven Bochco
Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
~ George Santayana
I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.
~ Noto
Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said.
~ Edwin Arlington Robinson
My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.
~ Christopher Lee
We like to believe we can break strategy down to Five Forces or Seven Ss. But you can't. Strategy is extraordinarily emotional and demanding.
~ Gary Hamel
Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.
~ John C. Maxwell
The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.
~ Daniel Goleman
I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world.
~ Richard Simmons
As an individual becomes aware of subliminal phenomena, the shock may cause him some initial physical or emotional discomfort - possibly even concern over his sanity.
~ Wilson Bryan Key
A brand is an emotional construct. It helps you to project an image to the world which you'd like to own.
~ Martin Lindstrom
Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating.
~ Peter Shepherd
Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.
~ Michael Shermer
We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.
~ Douglas Trumbull