It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
I never thought I would really like to be on television, and the story of me getting into it was quite lucky, really, just a series of chance encounters. So I am not exactly putting myself across as a celebrity, although people might perceive me that way.
So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards – well, you have no control over that.
Look at ‘Avatar:’ the foreign ticket sales were over twice the domestic returns. The mind boggles at those kinds of numbers, but that’s what you get when you effectively reach out to a global audience. If that kind of thing came to comics, it would undoubtedly change how people perceive the mainstream industry.
Leaving your country at a tender age really rearranges the way you perceive the world. So I feel marginally attached to many places rather than deeply attached to any one place.
People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we’ve already won. Games have won; it’s inevitable.
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
It is a true man’s part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.
Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that’s my territory, too.
The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.
I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.
You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.
People perceive me as a commodity. They just don’t think anything of asking for five minutes of my time. It never occurs to them that if they’re asking for it and another thousand people are asking, I don’t have 1,000 five minutes to give.
In a time where the world is becoming personalized, when the mobile phone, the burger, everything has its own personal identity, how should we perceive ourselves and how should we perceive others?
A lot of what you get done in the NFL is by perception. They perceive you as really talented, and they worry about you. You’ve got to come out of the locker room with something.
I’m very cognizant of the image that’s being put out there and the way in which people perceive me. I’m honored and flattered that they see me as being a decent human being. I try my best to be a decent human being, but I fall short of the mark like we all do on a regular basis.
There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they’re in shock.
To perceive means to immobilize… we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.
I can’t say I’ve ever finished a film and been particularly thrilled with myself or patted myself on the back. And maybe that’s what keeps me going, and that’s a good thing. It speaks volumes about how I perceive myself.
Walk to work, even if it’s four miles. Ride a bike to work. Drive a different way. On your way there, try to find beauty. You’d be surprised how much more of the neighborhood you can perceive and experience when you’re looking for unique spots of beauty.
I’m very inspired by other cultures and very often use what I perceive to be exotic ingredients.
Posture has such a big impact on the way people perceive you.
If you think someone committed a crime, you should turn them in to whomever you perceive authority to be.
I’m always working out how people perceive me, and that’s a hard thing to navigate sometimes.
I would not describe my personality. And I think when you describe people, you are making a mistake. That’s not how they are; that’s how you perceive them at that moment. It’s limiting in front of something that is magnificent and unlimited: life.
Twelve years ago, if someone attacked me, I wouldn’t let them get away with it. I’d take them on. I now perceive my job to include allowing people to vent their rage.
I love the way little kids dress themselves! They’re completely carefree about how others perceive them.
I don’t perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It’s pure self-indulgence.
What comes to me always is a character, a scene, a moment. That’s going to be the beginning. Then, as I write, I begin to perceive an ending. I begin to see a destination, although sometimes that changes. And then, of course, there’s the whole middle section looming.
As far as a Latin explosion, I’m sorry, I’m the only Latino who’s going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I’m sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it’s disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way.
We probably could more successfully resolve the North Korean nuclear threat through game-theoretic reasoning. We could successfully resolve what American leaders seem to perceive as an Iranian nuclear threat through game-theoretic reasoning.
That’s the best way to work on a project: talk to the director. In the end, it’s the director’s idea of how they perceive the movie and how they perceive the characters.
When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I’m the same guy I’ve always been.
I have a morality. I don’t know if it’s the best morality. And I do like thinking. If people perceive that as a moral intellectualism, that’s fine. That’s up to them to decide.
It takes these very simple-minded instructions – ‘Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number’ – but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.
A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to perceive reality differently.
You know, sometimes there’s a difference between what is actually the truth and what you perceive to be the truth through your social conditioning.
The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.
Once you identify the intrinsically motivated people, you realize that fancy degrees can actually be a negative – that some of the people who have them are more focused on how others perceive them.
I don’t perceive a lot of the things that a lot of people perceive as negative as a negative – and the inverse, I don’t think a lot of the things people think are positive are positive, necessarily.
I feel – and this goes back to social media and freedom of speech – when you’re on a public platform, and you put something out there in front of people who don’t know you, they might just perceive it in a very different way altogether.
My artistic manifesto exists in the world as poetry. So even though most of the things that I’ve done have been on other people’s projects or could be pigeonholed in certain ways, that’s not how I perceive myself.
Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I’ll try to tell you where I’m coming from and also relate it to what I think other people perceive.
When I had challenges, it taught me to be more on top of it for the future. Things go wrong all the time when you’re running your own business, but it’s how you perceive it and deal with it that matters.
There is an imperative need for the creator in every supporting actor to be able to perceive the gravity of these roles.
