#perceptions

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

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So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

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The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist. ↗

— Ned Rorem

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The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means. ↗

— Kimbra

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The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

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We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us. ↗

— Virginia Satir

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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

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It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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