Perception Influence Quotes

Our beliefs create the kind of world we believe in. We project our feelings, thoughts and attitudes onto the world. I can create a different world by changing my belief about the world. Our inner state creates the outer and not vice versa.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

Whatever you focus on you're going to feel.

I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists. What I mean by this is we don't just respond to things as we see them or feel them or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they really are, what they came from, what they're made of, what their hidden nature is.

What is said determines who listens and who understands. Graphic design is a language, but graphic designers are so busy worrying about the nuances - accents, punctuation and so on - that they spend little time thinking about what the words add up to. I’m interested in using our communication skills to change the way things are.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

All of us live at the feeling level, and our feelings are in large part a result of the way we perceive things. You observe or are told something, you interpret it, and only then do you have a reaction at the feeling level. The point is that feeling is preceded by perception, and all of us are capable of controlling our interpretation [the associations and assumptions] of what we see. If we can control our interpretation, then it logically follows that we can exercise some control over our feelings as well.

It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful.

When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories, and that in this sense it pervades them, although it does not itself come into view.

It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.

I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

I do think people need to recognize that a lot of journalists want to write a story a certain way because the story will be better or the portrayal will be better, or at least recognize that whenever you're looking at something, you're seeing it through somebody's eyes who may actually not be the person who is the most insightful.

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.

Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Pain results from a judgment you have made about a thing. Remove the judgment and the pain disappears.

Give a thing a name and it will somehow come to be.