#perception

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. ↗

— Mark Zandi

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There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part. ↗

— Lily Collins

#famous #get #having #last #may

The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#biggest problem #dyslexic #kids #perception #perceptual

One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this area seems to kick into overdrive, recording every last detail of the experience. The more detailed the memory, the longer the moment seems to last. "This explains why we think that time speeds up when we grow older," Eagleman said--why childhood summers seem to go on forever, while old age slips by while we’re dozing. The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass. ↗

— Burkhard Bilger

#amygdala #brain #david-eagleman #detail #life-threatening

Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception. ↗

— David Schwimmer

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I like doing a challenging class because it makes me more brave in life. My perception of hardships is now completely different. I'm not whining and moaning inside as much. ↗

— Ione Skye

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I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money. ↗

— Angie Stone

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The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#perception

When our poor, faultily sensitive vision can perceive a thing, we say that it is visible. When the nerves of touch can feel it, we say that it is tangible. Yet I tell you there are beings intangible to our physical sense, yet whose presence is felt by the spirit, and invisible to our eyes merely because those organs are not attuned to the light as reflected from their bodies. But light passed through the screen, which we are about to use has a wavelength novel to the scientific world, and by it you shall see with the eyes of the flesh that which has been invisible since life began. Have no fear! ("Unseen - Unfeared") ↗

— Francis Stevens

#invisible #perception #senses #life

I live in a world where people are guided by limited imagination; only facts that are favorable to them are truths. They are unable to live anyway else. When a person finds out that a fact is against them, it's usually because it's the truth. No one tries to step outside of the edge of reason. No one tries to step beyond the edge of the world. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#human-nature #perception #perspective #reality #truth