Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.

I feel that, as an actor, you’re constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There’s a freedom in that, so that’s why I love to paint.

I want to change the perception about Latinos worldwide. I think people don’t know yet how cool we are.

When parasitized by such a conspiratorial and delusional mindset, the bikini becomes a sexist tool of the patriarchy whereas the burqa is liberating and freeing since it averts the male gaze.

A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree, and he turns away. Show him facts or figures, and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic, and he fails to see your point.

I always feel like I can do anything. That’s the main thing people are controlled by: thoughts and perceptions of yourself… If you’re taught you can’t do anything, you won’t do anything.

Most people are slowed down by the perception of themselves.

Today, of course, the world’s perception of India has changed tremendously. People understand its role in world affairs; they understand that India is not some backward nation. In fact, it is the fastest growing free-market democracy in the world today, and that says it all.

When It Comes To Your Perception Of My Shit I’m Hellen Heckler

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime

In England, we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

Perception is a mirror, not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward yourself and others.

A miracle is a shift in perception. The moment that we choose to perceive our life with love, we can create miraculous change.

A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is

Only in the awareness of the present, can your hands feel the pleasant warmth of the cup

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed

It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace – peace is the way

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.

This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.

If general perception changes from seeing the glass as ‘half-full’ to seeing it as ‘half empty’ there are major innovative opportunities.

Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

If we are going to win the next war, in my opinion, 50 percent of the time of training should be allotted to night training.

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn’t there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.

In all chaos, there is a cosmos; in all disorder, a secret order

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

I just feel like I influence people because I’m like – I was practically homeless.

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

Our enemies have made the mistake that America’s enemies always make. They saw liberty and thought they saw weakness. And now, they see defeat.

People associate clothes with actual behavior… It’s not the clothes. It’s always the people.

I don’t think anybody feels safe in Chicago. Bullets ain’t got no name on them.

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception

Example is the best precept

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it’s a little thing, do something for others—something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it

When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other’s faces, or to intrude into each other’s hearts

I had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can’t see them.

Haven’t you heard? Goofy is the new handsome

I like to play the characters that are the center of attention and have an edge

I’m a regular-looking person in a sea of beautiful people

The most effective means of gaining fame is to make the world believe that you are already famous.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.

I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to perceive women. The beauty of women, how a woman should act or behave. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft-spoken and loud, all at once. There is something mind-controlling about the way we’re taught to view women.

I want to be world champion, but not to change the perception of others towards me or to achieve greatness like they say, but rather, to reach the goal with my national team and to add a world cup to my list of titles.

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

You define beauty yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty.