#perceive

People perceive me as a commodity. They just don't think anything of asking for five minutes of my time. It never occurs to them that if they're asking for it and another thousand people are asking, I don't have 1,000 five minutes to give. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#anything #asking #commodity #five #give

When I had challenges, it taught me to be more on top of it for the future.Things go wrong all the time when you're running your own business, but it's how you perceive it and deal with it that matters. ↗

— Lori Greiner

#challenges #deal #future #go #had

On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object. ↗

— George Grey

#boat #clear #could #down #embarking

You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you. ↗

— Taylor Hanson

#how #never #people #perceive #pick

I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#behind #i #i am #me #more

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige. ↗

— George Murray

#big #big deal #books #deal #even

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#art #artist #briefly #call #called

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. ↗

— David Bohm

#differently #gained #important #knowledge #more

It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#currency #entire #european #frame #international

Changes is the mother of time. Absence of changes makes no time. ↗

— Toba Beta

#perceive #reality #relativity #subjectivity #time