1,601 Quotes About Perception

If you turn on a powerful torch at one end of our galaxy, its light will reach the other end in 2,00,000 years. Your mind just read this fact but couldn't sink it in. If scientists sink in the facts they discover, they will either go mad or become monks.

Since no one individual can mandate a perfectly accurate description of reality, you must draw from many other people's perceptions to imbue your reality with the deepest possible understanding of its many hues and shades.

Your customers are always changing and so are their values, perceptions, and needs. Having up-to-date knowledge about them will help you in satisfying their needs as well as delighting them.

To all those who struggle in the darkness, who persevere in perception, waiting for the ice to thaw in their outlandish territories.May inspiration breathe upon your souls.Keep Fighting.- Dedication in Hot Pink Peach

Time feels slower when you’re really stressed out and depressed. A very irritating trait of psychological time, one of the worst. If only humans could just keep clock time no matter what.

Of course there is no such thing as heaven. There is only the reality of one’s perception and the planet Earth and that is where the human story ends. If there is a soul, it only exists during life: it’s more like a person’s brand. And as for love, it is nothing more than chemicals in the brain.

Maybe you and I and the fish exist only in the memory of a person who is gone. Maybe no one really exists, and it’s only raining outside. Maybe the bird never existed at all. -Boy (Angel's Egg)

Bein married to Joe … aw, shit! What’s any marriage like? I guess they are all different ways, but there ain’t one of em that’s what it looks like from the outside, I c’n tell you that. What people see of a married life and what actually goes on inside it are usually not much more than kissin cousins. Sometimes that’s awful, and sometimes it's funny, but usually it’s like all the other parts of life - both things at the same time.

I'd had to learn again how to watch a man move through the world and calibrate his every step to be disarming, how to watch a man worry about his body and the conditions under which someone might take his any gesture the wrong way. I'd had to remember back to high school, when my heart belonged only to boys of my color, to whom I had to insist that no one else's disrespect of me was worth a fight, was worth what a fight would cost them.