Quotes About Perception

He never did understand why people admired or even collected art. The greatest human artist could never hope to match what nature did with a single flower.

interpret their own and others' behavior by attributing mental states

it has been suggested that the borderline person's experiences of interpersonal attack, neglect, and threats of abandonment may account for a perception of current relationships as attacking and neglectful

playing with reality, making the real unreal and vice versa, is the principal avenue for the development of mentalization.

Mentalization—a concept that is familiar in developmental circles—is the process by which we realize that having a mind mediates our experience of the

affects ought to be studied in their own right, and that they constitute an independent sphere of knowledge—distinct from perception, cognition, and memory. According to Tomkins, affects are primary biological motivating mechanisms and can, thus, be understood as having primacy in human agency.

In your eyes I am complete.

Did I dream this belief or did I believe this dream?

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Rather than tending to assume that observation was in principle correctible, empiricists ... did not think it was possible (or even desirable) to rectify or perfect perception, because ... For them, all human knowledge is always necessarily circumscribed, conditioned by context, and conceived in terms of relationship

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.

octopuses, far more than rats and pigeons, have their own ideas:

What does it feel like to be an octopus? To be a jellyfish? Does it feel like anything at all? Which were the first animals whose lives felt like something to them?

seems plausible that an animal might feel pain or thirst without having an "inner model" of the world

With an influx of sensory information comes a need for complex internal processing. When more is known, decisions become more complicated.

sauvignon blanc and turns to look out the window. "Africans can't do governments," he suddenly announces. "We are useless at it, disorganized." I close my newsmagazine and nod noncommittally. "And our institutions never work because we never pay our dues." He reaches up and presses his bell for more wine.

Even the stars we see are only a kind of memory, already dead for years.

I never hear you practice." He smiled: "Only those who are dirty need to wash.

Every spoken thought is just a symbol for something inside your brain. This word, out here, is like that thought in there. But it's never exact. So, looking at it another way, every word you say is a lie.

La narrativa surge de la violación de la expectativa».

Cuanto más nos preguntemos qué sucederá después, más atención prestamos. Y cuanta más atención prestemos, más escucharemos, percibiremos y retendremos.

Y esa tensión emocional involucra a nuestro público, porque se pregunta «qué saca en realidad de todo esto».

Hay que introducir tensión entre la expectativa y la incertidumbre. La tensión emocional nos induce a pensar que quizá la cosa vaya así, pero puede salir de otra manera, lo cual nos hace preguntarnos qué pasará luego.» Cuanto más nos preguntemos qué sucederá después, más atención prestamos. Y cuanta más atención prestemos, más escucharemos, percibiremos y retendremos.

If your audience has a negative story about you or your product or business, you'd better confront it. As famed author Salman Rushdie once said, "Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts." Once you lose control of your own story, you'll need double the muscle to get that power back.