#perception

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion. ↗

— Samuel Alito

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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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My point in mentioning this is only to say that people who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in what you do, even if you're just quietly going about a life of your own choosing. They make you doubt yourself, which, depending on cases, can be a severe distraction and a waste of time. This is a thing I wish I had understood much earlier than I did. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

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Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

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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

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I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song. ↗

— Deborah Cox

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