In essence, individuals more concerned with portraying their own uniqueness were more likely to select an alcoholic beverage not yet ordered at their table in an effort to demonstrate that they were in fact one...

Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, … The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they’re not.

The trouble with poetry is it’s often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.

For many, what they see on television becomes more true than what they see with their eyes in the external world. But this is not so, for one must never forget that every television and...

It is more than just memory, I think, that binds us to the past. The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around…

Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.

We rode in silence, I think all of us wondering what was behind the flowery wallpaper our perceptions had always pasted on the unknown. All the things the mind won’t allow us to see, to...

An angry woman is a bitch. An angry man is strong, whereas, a sad man or a fearful man is a wimp. A sad or fearful woman is frail.

Perception is reality.

Even the right is wrong from the other side.

People rely too much on their lifelong instincts. Their perception is divided by necessary obedience, which they themselves have become too weak to liberate themselves from. I’d let the Devil read me the bible, before...

The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.

Why would our brains have this capacity to sense the oneness of the universe, a sense that can be induced in many ways, even technological, if that capacity did not reflect an external reality?

Personally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see – the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of...

As revolutionary as it may be, the Net is best understood as the latest in a long series of tools that have helped mold the human mind.

Stubborness and staunch, they are both same thingsfrom different point of view, such crazy and eccentric.

inner eye” as such.

Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.

Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

Perception is often the reason why companies prevaricate doing a risk assessment.

Your perception is your right in your mind.

At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands of light and dark? Could they indeed have been distinct entities?

One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this area seems to kick into overdrive, recording every last detail of the experience....

Often pain is not real but just a perception.

To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic, to be bad at second-guessing the good.

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey—and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.

Change your perception and be happy where you are, how you are, with whom you are.

Most of us go through each day looking for what we saw yesterday And, not surprisingly, that is what we find.

That is definitely the perception.

Through mastering the means of perception, the promise of who you are in physical form is opened with an increasing opportunity for fulfilment.

Stuff only allows you to rent temporary pleasure.

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

So why bother investing in one’s memory in an age of externalized memories? The best answer I can give is the one I received unwittingly from EP, whose memory had been so completely lost that...

If I walk along a shore towards a ship which has run aground, and the funnel or masts merge into the forest bordering on the sand dune, there will be a moment when these details...

Without imagination we should be lost; for only with its help can we interpret our experience, turn it into experience of an outer world, and thus make use of it in understanding what and where...

But fairytales were, at best, dirty mirrors whose warped and pitted surfaces reflected a highly distorted view of the truth, quite different from reality.

But that citizen’s perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new...

Miracles… seem to me to rest not so much upon… healing power coming suddenly near us from afar but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that, for a moment, our eyes can see and...

My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.

Perception of one’s life journey does not, always or necessarily, have to be judged as good or bad. It certainly demands that one take responsibility for all aspects of it, however.

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

When the rush of the weak sweeps over those that strive to be strong, its destruction. The commonplaces of moral judgment become fogged with the lack of perception stained with the sting of longing. The...

Some people say, ‘Do not judge the book by its cover!’ Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter.

The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in livingcreatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were inrepose, their minds untroubled,...

Sometimes the heart can hear what the ears do not.

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

There is a leap of faith with any conclusion the mind can conceive.

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