#perceived

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. ↗

— Scott Adams

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Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say! ↗

— Mary Douglas

#disappointment #expectations #go #hand #i

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio. ↗

— Ken Blanchard

#four #manager #need #negative #perceived

By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line. ↗

— John Byng

#enemy #engage #form #going #great

I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about. ↗

— Vanessa Hudgens

#because #being #doing #fake #feel

I actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the instrument that's evolved the most, especially with how it's perceived. And even how it's played, and how it's viewed from a point of view of commerce, like with the music industry. ↗

— Stanley Clarke

#bass #commerce #compared #especially #even

The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy. ↗

— David Korten

#brussels #citizens #decision #democracy #eu

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. ↗

— Mark Twain

#before #ideas #marriage #perceived #relation

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#aspect #beauty #charity #eyes #hence

Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended. ↗

— Lactantius

#aside #beginning #cannot #comprehended #corrupt