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Kublai noticed this uncommon perception that Marco Polo has, with the idea to explain and talk about his country so vividly that he can see it.
People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.
In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.
Dharma is the Truth that all of existence is. It does not disagree with anything. It is the perception of existence in its purest formlessness.
The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.
There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.
Fundamentally cheap stocks are often held in low regard by market participants. Something may be tainting their perception in investors' minds.
I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical.
In tension you cannot perceive; in laxity you cannot perceive. Only if you are intense and relaxed, you perceive everything just the way it is.
You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.
You have the choice to be here as a speck of creation or as the very source of creation. Not exploring such a phenomenal possibility is a crime.
I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.
People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.
The perception of Africa, whether in the U.S. or in Europe, is of a continent that needs help, and cannot pull itself up. That is just not true.
When we erase perception, then we erase that which perceives perception. The universe dissolves and we see that it was never real to begin with.
I've said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act.
A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.
Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.
You stimulate the neo-cortex, it produces a symphony. But it's not just a symphony of perception. It's a symphony of your universe. Your reality.
If you have no agenda of your own, life will work according to its agenda. Your personal agenda is taking you further and further away from that.
Snapchat changed that perception of deleting something as bad. Online, typically you delete something if it's bad or if it's really embarrassing.
Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.
One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.
Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them.
Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and conceptions.
Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.
There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.
Until we change our perception of a BAME person's capabilities, in all walks of life, we will be given less opportunities and less time to succeed.
The perception of how a couple should argue, whose voice should be raised and who should be a dominant player has been altered in 'Dobara Phir Se.'
...Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.'
To say, 'I don't worry about perception,' you better worry about perception because it's a big part of making it through some very difficult times.
I think there is sort of a general universal perception of me or someone who looks like me, as someone who is kind of menacing, dark or mysterious.
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.
If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.
That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.
It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.
The secret to a successful career in virtually any field is good public relations. Forget results. Forget the facts. Perception is all that matters.
I think there is sort of a general universal perception of me, or someone who looks like me, as someone who is kind of menacing, dark or mysterious.
If you think you are big, you will become small. If you are willing to become an absolute nothing, you will become larger than creation and Creator.
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.
Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.
The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.
I think everyone has such a negative perception of homeless people - including myself, before I'd researched homelessness for my role in 'Hollyoaks.'
It's fantastic that the world is becoming more open to different ways of working, but we still have a long way to go in terms of changing perceptions.
The source of creation is within you. You can be just a piece of flesh, or you can be the Creator himself - this is the choice and potential you have.
By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception; we learn to grab it and put it someplace we want it to be.