For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.
I don’t align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles – the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam.
Making music is an emotional thing. And when you’re on a video shoot with 50 people there, you have to somehow, in a non-emotional way, say what you want and not feel guilty for it. And that takes growing up and that takes… not caring how people perceive you as much. And it just takes experience, I think.
If I had my way, I wouldn’t be sharing my personal life online. I’m a private person. At home, I don’t wander around shirtless, flexing my muscles. I roam around unshaven, with my hair disheveled. Unfortunately, people perceive you differently. It’s okay; they’re free to speculate.
One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art, and art as his tool. A product of the marketplace sensibility, this attitude barely differs on a psychological plane from the patron’s view of the artist as a paid employee.
Humans are generally much trickier to draw because we’re so used to looking at and analyzing human faces. The slightest tweak makes a huge difference in how we perceive that character.
I don’t perceive my role as a newsman at all. I’m a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings of jokes.
Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
Playing tricky poker doesn’t have to mean making bizarre moves or playing way out of character. Rather, it’s simply about taking advantage of what you know about your opponents and how they perceive your style of play.
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what’s wrong in your life, or you can focus on what’s right.
I think that I am misunderstood because people perceive me to be a certain way because I am generational. They expect me to be entitled and expect me to have things early on. I think people misconstrued that honestly.
If people perceive you as a good actor then they’ll wish for you to be a good actor and they’ll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you’re going to clubs every night people don’t root for you anymore.
Good liars are skilled at reading others well, putting them at ease, managing their own emotions, and intuitively sensing how others perceive them.
A lot of people don’t perceive me as female or trans, they just see some rocker.
I read these articles where people are calling me a fashion icon, which kind of makes me laugh, but if that’s the way they perceive it that’s all good.
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another’s great tribulation; not because any man’s troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
I’m this goofball. I look at myself in the mirror, and the person that I know doesn’t match up to what I think people love to perceive me as.
We always talk about our kids being a great way to judge whether it’s a hit song because there’s something very basic about the way they perceive the music that I think needs to be there if it’s gonna be a hit.
Most people perceive their occupation as being a detriment to their overall wellbeing.
Changing the conversation about how Americans perceive veterans is really important. These are hardworking, dedicated, innovative people who deserve quality employment when they return home from their military service.
We perceive, we remember our experiences, we make judgments, we act – and in all of these endeavors, we are influenced by factors that we aren’t aware of.
Most of our music is about how we perceive the world and how we try to persist as normal, average human beings. So our fans inspire us and give us a direction to go as musicians. And of course, their love and support keeps us going.
Since Graham Bell came up with telephony, it took 100 years for the way the technology has impacted our lives, the way we perceive the world.
In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.
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.
I did not fix any genre for ‘AK.’ We just write a story and audience will put it in a genre as they perceive it.
When I was 22, I met with some janky manager, and she told me, ‘You’re never going to work at this weight.’ I think I was a size 6 at the time. There is just this weird thing about how we perceive women in this country. I would love to be a part of breaking that down.
In all our perceptions, from vision to hearing, to the pictures we build of people’s character, our unconscious mind starts from whatever objective data is available to us – usually spotty – and helps to shape and construct the more complete picture we consciously perceive.
If somebody were to feel the necessity to reduce themselves to a desperate state to achieve what they perceive to be their goals in life, people who work in fashion, who are models or photographers, shouldn’t be judged because of untoward acts of others. As the saying goes, it takes two to tango.
It doesn’t matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
I think it’s actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.
I’ve spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of ’em go to other actors.
Political propaganda seeks to affect the way people perceive the world in order to affect the way they behave.
There is a danger for Britain as we perceive ourselves, or as we are – less wealthy, facing economic austerity – that we essentially draw back. I think there is a recoil in parts of the country, and in parts of the government actually, from the multilateral system, and I think that’s dangerous and wrong.
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
Maybe it’s because I’m English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.
Glamour is not something you possess but something you perceive, not something you have but something you feel. It is a subjective response to a stimulus.
You get to choose how you perceive your reality. So why, when it comes to perceiving yourself, would you choose to see anything other than a super-huge rock star of a creature?
When I became ‘The American Dream,’ they needed a hero down here. I had no money – I couldn’t buy a car without being tied under – but I had to have a Cadillac with blue stars on the hood no matter what it cost because just driving in it will set how they look at me and perceive this guy; they’ll know.
Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they’ve purchased. Failure doesn’t enter into anyone’s calculations.
I’ve always had an interest in complicating the way that we perceive the black character, whether it’s the black academic or scholar or activist or black intellectual.
Image is what people perceive my life to be. It’s nothing like the truth.
I don’t know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive the world. And you just hope it gives you more empathy and all those other things.
The worst mistake anyone can make is to perceive anyone else as lesser. The deeper you look into other souls – and writing is primarily an exercise in doing just that – the clearer people’s inherent dignity becomes.
When you are young, love happens easily; at least, that’s how you perceive it. You fall for the person if you get a little bit of attention.
I think if I let the team’s performance dictate how I behave or how I perceive my performance, or whether or not there’s value, or whether or not anyone even cares, it’s a dangerous and slippery slope.
The difference between what people perceive and what’s reality is that, like, I’m not actually shy. I’m just observant. I care a lot.
