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Quotes About Perception

Beyond all experience is the one who is experiencing. Beyond all change is the One who never changes.
~ Leonard Jacobson
What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.
~ Leslie Caron
it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.
~ Lewis Thomas
The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.
~ Terence McKenna
My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.
~ M.I.A.
In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.
~ Willem Dafoe
For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.
~ Margaret Mead
Thought that is no longer limited, brings experience that is no longer limited
~ Marianne Williamson
If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.
~ Marianne Williamson
Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.
~ Marshall McLuhan
The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding situation.
~ Marshall McLuhan
One of the things that I have always been interested in is the actual experience of people in their lives as opposed to what we think their experience should be.
~ Matt Nix
I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time.
~ Matthew Zapruder
When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience.
~ Maurice Saatchi
You can turn off the song the way you cannot the actual experience.
~ Melissa Febos
In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.
~ Meryl Streep
It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared with the actual experience.
~ Mike Mason
Past experience told me he could smell my fear; it also told me that the anger accompanying it would pretty much cover the scent. It's good to know how to compensate for your own weaknesses.?
~ Mira Grant
To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things really are.
~ Natalie Goldberg
I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.
~ Natalie Portman