"Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality."
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"I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do."
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"I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator."
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"All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top."
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"The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite."
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"On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it."
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"You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too."
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"I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics."
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"I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others, only their rational perception. The person who craves a moral blank check of that kind, has dishonest intentions, whether he admits it to himself or not."
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"To see an older woman play a little boy on stage completely blasted open my perception to what it meant to act. That was it for me."
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"The perspective is more important than the perception"
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"I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception."
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"Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential."
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"Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late."
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"Lewis sought no disciples, nor does he offer a program or solution, rather his contribution is a critical discipline. Lewis is a stimulant, a mode of perception, rather than a position or practice."
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"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."
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"If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded."
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"The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental."
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"Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively."
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"The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception."
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