#perception

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

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But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility. ↗

— David Blunkett

#application #being #me #perception #requires

Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#better #continue #doing #freeze #frozen

Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. ↗

— Stan Brakhage

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The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs. ↗

— Jim Bunning

#illegal #other #perception #players #protecting

I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

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Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#bit #came #different #everything #fool

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do. ↗

— Jim Harrison

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