#perceptions

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#perceptions #storytelling #perception

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#attention #changing #how #humor #involved

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

— Virginia Satir

#define #limited #must #other #people

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#middle #middle age #own #perceptions #their

I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

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Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#change

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#perceptions #change

Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful] is contrary to the truth, just as I will show you with a hypothetical case. Let us suppose they did this intending to draw fools away from foolishness. It would be as if I attacked fire -- a very good and necessary element nevertheless -- because some people burnt themselves, or water because someone drowned. The same can be said of all good things which can be used well or used badly. But one must not attack them if fools abuse them. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#argument #clichés #conduct #damage #danger

You know, one of the perceptions, again, about FEMA is that there's been a demise in the organization since it became the - under - it started to become part of the Department of Homeland Security. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#again #became #become #been #demise

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem. ↗

— Jim Brown

#am #going #i #i am #interested