#perception

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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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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There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

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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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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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With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you. ↗

— Chris Robinson

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Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. ↗

— Billy Joel

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The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

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Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

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