Perception Quotes

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.

As far as guitar picking, if I make the same mistakes at the same time every day, people will start calling it a style.

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.

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.

Life's too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don't care.

We used to want our artists to be cigarette-smoking bohemian outsiders who were gonna take risks that the rest of us wouldn't.

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.

Being blond is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blond has some incredible sort of sexual connotation.

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.