Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any… I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus. – Ada Lovelace
What I had to learn was, that I’m only responsible for my perception of things. The world’s not out to get you. That’s not the way it works. – Chris Robinson
The UN’s unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
I’m less interested in reality. I’m more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem. – Caitlyn Jenner
I’m not angry, I’m not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I’m more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well. – Calvin Harris
Costume, hair and makeup can tell you instantly, or at least give you a larger perception of who a character is. It’s the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth, so it really does establish who they are. – Colleen Atwood
With time and experience comes a different perception of what’s going on around you. – Chris Robinson
I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception. – Alicia Keys
I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like. – Bill Nighy
Public perception of the Westminster arena, with all its posturings, does little to engender a sense of voter belief. – Charles Kennedy
I’ve been a Christian for a long time, and I think that Christianity gets a bad rap. I think that people’s perception of what a Christian is today is something that is close-minded and narrow, and that’s not what I am. – Andie MacDowell
Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas. – Edward de Bono
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic. – Edward de Bono
I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn’t exactly win us any friends. – Fred Frith
I didn’t think that college math was for me. I didn’t think I’d be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change. – Danica McKellar
I know an actor who would play one type of part but could never get cast as tough. Once he got cast as tough, as a cop, he only got offered cop roles. It’s a funny business in that regard. It’s all about perception. – Paul Dano
Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities. – Douglas Coupland
After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception. – Pedro Almodovar
I just found over the years that it’s very hard to change people’s perception of what it is that you do. – Colin Hay
Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product. – Elon Musk
The market, as we’re all painfully aware in the aftermath of the banking crisis, can be an idiot. It has no perception of right or wrong, or even sensible or insane. It sees profit. – Nick Harkaway
I couldn’t care less what anyone’s ‘perception’ of me is. I’m too long in the tooth to care. – Felix Dennis
The first cause of waste is probably even buried in our DNA. Human beings have a need for maintaining consistency of the apperceptive mass. What does that mean? What it means is, for every perception we have, it needs to tally with the one like it before, or we don’t have continuity, and we become a little bit disoriented. – Dan Phillips
I definitely don’t look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me. – Elijah Wood
I’m not worried about misconception or a perception that’s bad. If I were, I’d be chasing something all the time. – Elisabeth Hasselbeck
You definitely have to think of the perception of things before you actually do certain things. It may not seem like it’s a big deal to you yourself, but there’s a bigger picture. – Ezekiel Elliott
I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth. – Norton Juster
The study titled ‘Impact of Immigration on Wages, by Education Level, 1994-2007’ found that increased immigration had an effect of lowering wages for earlier immigrants by an average of 4.6 percent. Running counter to popular perception is the finding that for native-born Americans, wages actually increased by 0.6 percent. – Fabrizio Moreira