#perception

It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be. ↗

— Alan Hansen

#considering #fans #incredible #lacked #more

I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do. ↗

— Colin Hay

#found #hard #i #just #over

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#based #brutality #change #citizen #destructive

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#discrimination #dull #good #great #great literature

It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide. ↗

— Charlie Hunnam

#could #downfall #hollywood #i #off

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#doors #known #perception #the doors #things

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#current #depends #entry #growth #into

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#silence #people

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it. ↗

— David Sedaris

#perception #retardation #humor

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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