Quotes About Perception

Rather than seeing dreams as containing hidden messages, see dreams as experiences of empathy. Then use empathy with the dream to reconnect with the experience of dreaming itself.

It is the energy projected by an individual's own mind which creates his experience.

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.

What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality.

Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always start from a definite sensory experience.

Consumers view of you is not about how they compare you to other banks. It's about how they compare you to all of the other businesses they experience.

My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest to the microphones - not the audience.

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.

When we know something and rest in that knowing we limit our vision. We will only see what our knowing will allow us to see. In this way experience can be our enemy.

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.

I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up with black folks.'

I prefer hallucinations cause they tend to make more sense than experience.

Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time?

For me, looking at small images somehow recreates the experience of looking through a viewfinder.... At this size they're edible. You don't just scan them. You take them in all at once.

I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.

Digital music boils down the actual musical experience.

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

Experience shows that after a disaster it is particularly difficult with the Americans, who appear to be quite cowardly despite their Rambo films.

I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience, for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me.

There is an eighth color that we don't have the sense apparatus to see or experience.