Quotes About Perception

Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup."

There was the Door to which I found no key There was the Veil through which I might not see.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Universe is not a calm lake and therefore when you watch a calm lake you get a deceptive idea about the universe and you get a wrong perception of future!

It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.

Entertainers have no brain...I get frustrated when I hear things like that from people. We have different goals. We have our own ways. I try to do the best I can, but still.

We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art has any purpose, it is to open our eyes to that fact.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.

The goal for the photographer is be visually articulate.

Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under another name than eugenics.

My goal is to let people see who I am as a person, not just a basketball player. Many people see athletes in a certain way - flat and one dimensional. I want to change that view.

My goals in Holland were known as 'stiffies', which means something quite different in England of course.

When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animation.

Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It's a goal.

For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

While you are so busy trying to make yourself humble, many are persistently and quietly promoting themselves.

Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail.

Sometimes I wave to people I don't know. It's very dangerous to wave to someone you don't know, because what if they don't have a hand? They'll think you're cocky. 'Look what I got... This thing is useful. I'm gonna go pick somethin' up.'