Quotes About Perception

To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.

The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood.

The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

What you experience as "reality," including your physical body and aging, is shaped by your habits of perception.

Remember, whatever we put our attention on expands in our experience, so consider where you are focusing your time and energy.

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment.

I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph.

That's the magic of moviemaking. You clearly identify one scenario with the other, and it's a completely different experience.

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

Welcome to a new era of marketing and service in which your brand is defined by those who experience it.

I have gone from "being" my experience to being infinite consciousness having the experience and observing the experience.

If you want to understand what a watermelon is, you take a watermelon, get a knife, and cut the watermelon. Then you put a slice in your mouth. Boom! YOUR experience!

As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

Visit your local supermarket or retail chain. You'll experience a lot of visual stimulus, but it's unlikely that your other senses will encounter any compelling messages.

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.

Cooperation with others. Perception, experience, tenacity. Know when to lead and when to follow.

Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality.

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.