#perception

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity. ↗

— Kenny G

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Well, for me, really, I think it was I wanted to try and clear up some of the misperceptions that were out there and fill in some of the historical gaps. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

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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

I think the moment that I'm very proud of is building a business without using animals. And, hopefully, changing people's perception of how you can do luxury fashion. ↗

— Stella McCartney

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

— Elizabeth Moon

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I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy. ↗

— Gary Oldman

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I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful. ↗

— Sean Parker

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I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me. ↗

— Brad Pitt

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What I had to learn was, that I'm only responsible for my perception of things. The world's not out to get you. That's not the way it works. ↗

— Chris Robinson

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