Perception Quotes
The reason of this is that if you look at the movement of the wateryour eye will not be able to fix on anything, but its action is as that of things seen in your shadow when you are walking; for if the eyeat-tempt to distinguish the nature of the shadow, the wisps of strawor other things contained in it appear of rapid movement and it seems that these are much more swift to flee from the said shadow than the shadow is to proceed.
Every body that moves rapidly seems to colour its path with the impression of its hue. The truth of this proposition is seen from experi-ence; thus when the lightning moves among dark clouds the speedofits sinuous flight makes its whole course resemble a luminous snake.So in like manner if you wave a lighted brand its whole course will seem a ring of flame. This is because the organ of perception acts more rapidly than the judgment.
The eye which finds itself in the centre between the shadows and the lights that surround the shaded bodies, will see in these bodies thegreater shadows that are in them meeting themselves within equal angles that is of the visual incidence.
If you look at a luminous body in the far distance through a smallhole it will seem to grow less, and if you look at it near at hand it will not undergo any change. That is that if you look at this light atadistance of one or two braccia from the aforesaid hole it will not undergo any change whether you are looking at it through this hole or outside of it.
Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
By ancestry, I was born to rule.
It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.
Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of T.V., and you grow up on false images of what love truly is. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, about it's not usually that way. Then you learn love is something deeper and purer in form.
If you listen to people talk when people actually talk, they talk in melodies. If they get angry, their voice rises, and it's more of a staccato thing. When they ask for something, they're real sweet. It's all music.
As far as guitar picking, if I make the same mistakes at the same time every day, people will start calling it a style.
I hope you're going to edit this stuff. I don't want to sound like a senile, self-pitying chick babbling on and on about her days of glory.
We used to want our artists to be cigarette-smoking bohemian outsiders who were gonna take risks that the rest of us wouldn't.
Life's too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don't care.
People think I'm an ogre at times. Some girls hissed at me in the street...'You devil.' They think we're really nasty. But that's only on stage. Off stage, well I'm certainly not an ogre.
Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.
Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.
Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.
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