Quotes about Perception
Most of the time, it's your thinking, not your talent, that holds you back.
— Rick Warren
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.
— William Faulkner
Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
— Ernest Hemingway
I'm a little more goofy than I think people give me credit for. I like to have fun. I like to have a good time. People don't always get to see that.
— J. J. Watt
The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
— Henri Matisse
What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems 'good, pleasant and desirable' at the time of arrival.
— JC Ryle
By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
— Watchman Nee
It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.
— Carl Jung
That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.
— Samuel Beckett
The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.
— John Calvin
I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different
— Graham Greene
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson