Quotes About Perception

Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

The real secret of power is consciousness of power.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

There is a craft and a power in listening.

Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves the production of the existing power relations and blah blah blah.

What is behind your eyes holds more power than what is in front of them.

Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?... He who in himself sees all things, is all things.

The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it; and you have the power to change it at will.

The greatest sin is to think that you are weak. No one is greater: realize that you are Brahman. Nothing has power except what you give it.

There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which does something to them. It fixes them in a way.

You lose power to the people and circumstances you judge. They capture your attention in the same way that a movie does.