Quotes about Perception
We can choose to be offended. We can choose not to be offended. It really is that simple. Not necessarily easy. Simple. And always a choice that is completely within our control.
— Andy Andrews
How you think is massively influenced and largely determined by what you read, hear, and watch.
— Andy Andrews
What a person thinks is determined by how a person thinks. This is true whether the conclusion at which a person arrives is accurate, safe, and profitable — or stupid and vicious.
— Andy Andrews
Outsiders aren't about to take our faith seriously as long as they wonder if we do.
— Andy Stanley
Keep in mind that everything you loathe about your current environment or organization was originally somebody's good idea.
— Andy Stanley
Your beliefs shape your attitudes!
— Andy Stanley
The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.
— Andy Stanley
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
— Brian Tracy
It wasn't until sixth grade, at P.S. 168, when my teacher took us on a field trip to her house that I realized we were poor. I have no idea what my teacher's intentions were - whether she was trying to inspire us or if she actually thought visiting her Manhattan brownstone with her view of Central Park qualified as a school trip.
— Jay-Z
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
— Michelangelo
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
— DH Lawrence