#perceptive

I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#perceptive #travel #perception

I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#exceptionally #i #i think #perceptive #smart

That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone "mainstream." ↗

— Cesar Romero

#always #because #been #country #dancer

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#being #editorials #i #intimate #just

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#camera #critic #critics #does #eye

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#art #beyond #define #depths #difficult

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#mind #object #perception #perceptive #reaction

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. ↗

— George Boole

#beyond #commendation #does #faculties #high

But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine. ↗

— Laura Bush

#fine #george #good #issues #know

I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset. ↗

— Ashley Judd

#being #having #i #i think #interests