#perception

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception. ↗

— Van Morrison

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I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy. ↗

— Gary Oldman

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It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

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Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality. ↗

— Bill Owens

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I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful. ↗

— Sean Parker

#easier #i #i think #just #more

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#external #fatiguing #imagination #life #make

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#angry #because #become #certain #club

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#origins #our #perceptions

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#does #knowledge #our #perception #sufficient