#perception

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

#because #become #depressed #dominated #emotions

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

#critic #critical #evaluation #good #maintaining

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

#build #compliment #elements #his #how

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#change #everyday #happen #miracle #miracles

I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth. ↗

— Norton Juster

#became #book #cities #experience #ford

I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me. ↗

— Kim Kardashian

#into #me #perception #play #really

It’s amazing that a thin film of plastic wrap is enough to protect food against the aggression of hungry marauders. Or maybe the plastic cover doesn’t act as a shield, but rather the starving mob is staved off by one simple word: Leftovers. 
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#hunger #leftovers #marauders #mob #perception

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#known #ordinary #perceptions #strange #thing

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#between #century #come #comfortable #done