#perceptions

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

#beings #far #human #human beings #important

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

#awakens #back #belongs #go #mtv

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

— Arthur Smith

#appearance #because #compared #famous #gauge

Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British? ↗

— Julian Fellowes

#actors #affectations #british #claudette-colbert #clichés

Those who do not succeed do not believe in their ability to exercise the potential power to forge beyond perceptions of limitations. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#exercise #forge #limitations #limits #perceptions

What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes. ↗

— Julian Assange

#benefit #clear #conducted #conducting #how

How different would our perception of reality be if, instead, we discarded the mudane events that cannot coexist with our dreams? ↗

— Robin Hobb

#perceptions #dreams

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience. ↗

— Freda Adler

#become #diminished #eventually #experience #fade

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. ↗

— Mark Twain

#because #call #dull #dumb #his

When someone says "I Love You," it is imperative that you know if you are loved for "WHAT you are" or "WHO you are." When the academic qualifications, professionals, positions, possessions, good look, fat bank accounts and all that has been acquired over the years are taken away, all that is left is "Who you are" - Your Personality (character, values, perceptions.) "We are never truly loved, until we are loved for WHO and not WHAT we are ↗

— Olaotan Fawehinmi

#good-look #i-love-you #love #olaotan-fawehinmi #perceptions