Perception Quotes

But that citizen’s perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.

I think the city of Washington itself is insular to a certain extent. You have to get out in the country to realize what is going on and discover that the perceptions in Washington aren’t necessarily accurate.

I came here with the perfect chemist’s perception. The formula they had was perfect and any added ingredient could make it go bad or worse.

The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.

Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age.

It creates in the mind of the prospect the perception that there is no product on the market quite like your product.

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.

You won’t ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.

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.

The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.