In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

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We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we...
STACY LONDON Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
CHARLES M. BLOW It's a fact that these perceptions lag reality -- it's not terribly uncommon for the economy to be d...
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL

Often, we are not courageous enough to tell the truth because we fear societal prejudices and percep...
DEBASISH MRIDHA

You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different.
BERNHARD LANGER Our spirit knows our purpose, let these en-grained impressions shape our perceptions of who we think...
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO While we tend not to think about it too much, these forms of media help construct our sense of the w...
JEFFREY WEINSTOCK

There may be little practical difference between a Ford Mondeo and a BMW three series, but in terms ...
MARTIN JACQUES

Our perceptions determine, to an incredibly large degree, what we are and are not capable of. In man...
RYAN HOLIDAY Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN Your thoughts are based on your perceptions and those thoughts are capable to refine your perception...
BIKASH BHANDARI

The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consen...
NOAM CHOMSKY We cannot ignore the importance of perceptions in Northern Ireland, and there is now a clear emergin...
ALISTAIR GRAHAM

But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to a...
SUSAN CAIN We are always haunted by our own perceptions about life... Once you have the ability to handle those...
DR. VINOD B. NAIR There was a time when we were considered kooky survivalists. Now perceptions have changed.
GREG MOELLER When people feel happy, they tend to feel confident, optimistic, and energetic and others find them ...
SONJA LYUBOMIRSKY We all have different perceptions about the world but those who choose ignorance over knowledge are ...
MORAKENG SEKGOKA

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very brig...
CARLISLE FLOYD Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer.
AKIROQ BROST Only if we transvalue the plain-vanilla standards of our life, we may bring back things to light and...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE It was changing self-perceptions as well as the perceptions of the community.
BILL ROSS Study your perceptions when seeking reality.
JIM GENOVESE Then again, that's how quickly people's perceptions could change. It only took one mistake, one stup...
SIOBHAN VIVIAN The 50/50 rule means that when people meet you for the first time, before you ever speak, there is a...
CARLA HARRIS Although boomers are clearly and profoundly involved in every aspect of their parents' care, these d...
DAVID LOCKWOOD These representations on reality television have really broadened people's perceptions of gays and l...
DAMON ROMINE To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
STEPHEN R. COVEY In most cases, failure is not determined by the obstacles we face, but by how we approach them and w...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Before the details of the collision start to fade in any human beings' mind with time, we want to se...
CRAIG QUIGLEY At a time when we are losing manufacturing jobs in this country, we should be doing everything we ca...
DEBBIE STABENOW So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality ar...
DANIEL KEYS MORAN In my opinion only surgeons should be doing these cases because sometimes you need more than to use ...
DR. RON BUSH We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us
VIRGINIA SATIR We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.
VIRGINIA SATIR With Lincoln's exciting cadence of new products coming this year, we are seeking innovative ways to ...
TOM GRILL Sense of beauty, perception, and the mathematical universe are all part of the same texture.
NEETI SINHA We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I find that because of modern technological evolution and our global economy, and as a result of the...
DALAI LAMA Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M We got the same team. We should be a little bit better. We are going to continue to work and get bet...
JARVIS JONES Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but ...
FREDA ADLER Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but becau...
FREDA ADLER We should be applying that in a much tougher sense of holding accountable what the fiduciary trusts ...
LLOYD AXWORTHY It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.
KENNETH KOCH The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do...
ROGER BIRKMAN The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. ...
ROGER BIRKMAN To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.
CONFUCIUS The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
CHARLES H. PERKHURST Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.
M. SHAWN COLE All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we ...
CHARLES PEGUY Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they w...
MIYAMOTO MUSASHI Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate per...
HANS MARGOLIUS Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.
ANTHONY J D'ANGELO I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain worki...
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
OSCAR WILDE If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man...
BLAKE Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psycholog...
STEPHEN R. COVEY This may be because happy people frequently experience positive moods and these positive moods promp...
SONJA LYUBOMIRSKY [He urged the Board to be more accountable for the failure and noted that the] state's labels affect...
JACK HALL A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.
ALBERT EINSTEIN A lot of these are insane. They are repetitive and we are overpaying our consultants when the county...
SARAH HEARD It's not completely accurate to say it didn't freeze at all [this year], because there were some day...
JOE WILHELM Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
CLAUDIA BLACK The top three auto sites are relatively competitive with each other in terms of the online customer ...
BONNY BROWN Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
M. H. ABRAMS If bones could freeze, then the brain could also be dulled and the soul could freeze over. And the s...
VARLAM SHALAMOV The darkest night in someone's life may be the brightest day in another person's life. Life rests on...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR We can easily be depleted from life and if we are truly lucky, we have that one friend who can reple...
KAREN A. BAQUIRAN . . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at ...
MARIE DE SEVIGNE Human’s aren’t concerned with reality, merely their perceptions of it.
BENJAMIN R. SMITH We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not corresp...
NOAM CHOMSKY We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
VIRGINIA SATIR Your frozen thoughts will freeze you one day.
NEHA KOTHARI You can't pay too much attention to what this one publication says, but people do read these ranking...
JAMES OWENS We don't think there is any reason to continue investigating Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania. We think they...
CHRIS RYDER Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use l...
CAROL SHIELDS What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything.
DONNA QUESADA Ought one to surrender to authority even if one believed that that authority was wrong? If the answe...
RICHARD WRIGHT I don't look to jokes as a balanced look at life. But they can be an indicator. Jokes work on shared...
MARC GALANTER Our main role is to change perceptions of the city. We can't do 12 different things.
JEFFREY VASSER The mind intermingles thoughts and perceptions giving thoughts priority. Therein lies our problems, ...
JIM GENOVESE All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
LEONARDO DA VINCI In your search for reality, examine your own perceptions.
JIM GENOVESE All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions
LEONARDO DA VINCI But I love you, and before you say it words do matter. They're not pointless. If they were pointless...
CATH CROWLEY Let them learn at school whatever they learn to pass the examinations, but at home let the education...
ABHIJIT NASKAR More critically, the statements that we make can get picked up internationally (and) then feed to th...
JOEL NETSHITENZHE I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We're getting good crowds and they are getting behind us. We didn't start too well at the beginning ...
DELE ADEBOLA If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It's rewarding to be able to change people's perceptions of reality, ... They just see their environ...
WILL WRIGHT These provide a different way of thinking. They have to be done quickly and in the moment. I like do...
HARRIET WISEMAN Should we continue to spend billions to subsidize foreign military dictatorships, or should we conce...
PAT PAULSEN Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in it...
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EDWARD HOPPER I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to ...
EDWARD HOPPER In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of...
EDWARD HOPPER

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

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Edward de Bono

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

Edward de Bono

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