#perception

The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not? ↗

— Robert Fripp

#going #hear #interesting #part #perception

There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#babies #false #grieve #loss #love

So I think it's - what was important to me is that I found that I can't change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don't think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

#already #change #correct #fact #found

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#because #been #culture #different #different kind

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#attachments #beliefs #beyond #districts #enjoy

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#could #ego #his #i #novel

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#beings #far #human #human beings #important

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#awakens #back #belongs #go #mtv

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#difficult #doing #filmmaker #french #honoring

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception. ↗

— Van Morrison

#famous person #get #i #me #morning