#perception
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Reality is not something that can be captured by our conceptual models.
From The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than bad design.
You can see the world as a set of relationships, not just objects.
An agent is anything that can be viewed as perceiving its environment through sensors and acting upon that environment through actuators.
From Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
Quantum mechanics teaches us that the observer is an integral part of the observed.
From The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
Every piece of information has to be interpreted.
From The Information by James Gleick
Your reputation is more important than your reality.
Emotions can distort our perception of reality.
From Why Buddhism Is True by Robert Wright
Expertise is often seen as elitism in today's culture.
From The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols
I have to be careful not to misinterpret what I see.
From Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
The right hemisphere sees the world as a whole, while the left reduces it to parts.
We eat with our eyes as much as with our mouths.
From Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson
The words we use shape our understanding of the world.
From The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.
From Zero to One by Peter Thiel
The design of everyday things is in the details.
Each of us has a unique way of perceiving the world.
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it.
History is not just what happened; it is what we remember.
From The Cave and the Light by Arthur Herman
Our beliefs shape our perceptions, and our perceptions shape our reality.
The most important thing about a computer is that it is not a computer.
From The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop
Faith is a way of seeing the world with new eyes.
From A History of God by Karen Armstrong
Scarcity increases the perceived value of an item.
From Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
Belief creates the actual fact.
Art teaches us to see beyond the surface.
From The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72 by Molly Peacock
The devil is not as black as he is painted.
The left hemisphere's focus on analysis can lead to a fragmented view of life.
Our perception shapes our reality.
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
From On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
Our brains are designed to create models of the world.
From A Thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins
Our perception of air is influenced by both scientific inquiry and poetic imagination.
From The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson
Time is not a mere sequence of moments.
From Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
Your mindset shapes your reality.
From Choose Wonder Over Worry by Amber Rae
Everything becomes more difficult, as if one were in a fog, one sees and hears less clearly.
From The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
The stream of consciousness is a continuous flow.
Reality is not simply what happens; it is also what we make of it.
From The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Women often underestimate their accomplishments.
Our expectations can have a profound effect on our experiences.
From Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Religious narratives shape our values and perceptions of the world.
From A History of God by Karen Armstrong
Leadership roles are often perceived as masculine, which can discourage women.
From The Fix: Overcome the Invisible Barriers That Are Holding Women Back at Work by Michelle P. King
The telegraph transformed the way we think about distance.
From The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
Understanding Bitcoin requires a shift in how we perceive value and money.
From The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.
From Rising Strong by Brené Brown
Art is a way to reframe the ordinary into something extraordinary.
From The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72 by Molly Peacock
The truth is, I am a burden to you.
From The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The use of reason is to be distinguished from the use of the senses.
From The Philosophical Writings of Descartes by René Descartes
Our mental models shape the way we interpret the world around us.
The greatest obstacle to accurate analysis is the tendency to see what we expect to see.
From The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis by Richards J. Heuer Jr.
When we think of the past it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.
From The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Wealthy people are not always rich.
From The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
Cultural perceptions of AI will influence its acceptance and implementation.
From AI 2041 by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan
The beauty of a flower is a way of attracting us to it.
From The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
Your thoughts create your reality.
From The Mindful Athlete by George Mumford
Artificial intelligence is often portrayed as a panacea, but the reality is far more complex.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
From The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Reality is more complex than our perceptions can ever convey.
From The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose
The mind is the lens through which we perceive the world.
Women often underestimate their abilities and overprepare.
Our perceptions are influenced by the way choices are presented to us.
From Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Our thoughts create our experience of the world.
From The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche
Believing something does not make it true, but it does change how you act.
You can’t see the past; you can’t see the future.
Religion is about the way we experience the world.
From A History of God by Karen Armstrong
I am not a role model. I am just a guy who plays tennis.
From Open by Andre Agassi
You only need to change one thing: your habit of how you see yourself.
From The High 5 Habit by Mel Robbins
To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
From The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
What we see when we look at the world is determined not only by the world we see but also by the theories we hold.
From The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
He saw beauty in the chaos of nature.
From The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf
Flow is not just about the activity; it is about the individual’s perception of their experience.
From Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
If you could hear what I see, you would understand.
From What Would Frida Do? by Arianna Davis
The world is my representation.
From The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
Awakening is about seeing the world as it is, not as we wish it to be.
From Why Buddhism Is True by Robert Wright
Consciousness is the immediate relation to the object.
To be is to be perceived.
The mind can create a narrative that obscures reality.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
The brain is a world consisting of a number of universes.
We are often unaware of the role chance plays in our lives.
From The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
Clocks are not the only way to measure time.
From The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
The richness of sound can evoke powerful emotions.
From The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World by Trevor Cox
You cannot change the world, but you can change your perception of it.
From The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
In the world of quantum physics, the observer is a part of the observed.
From The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
The shadows on the wall are not the reality.
From The Cave and the Light by Arthur Herman
A good character, when established, can make time seem to stretch.
From On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
The telegraph made the world feel smaller and more interconnected.
From The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
We can only see what we are prepared to see.
What people see on the surface is not who I am.
From The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant
The history of air is not just about the stuff we breathe.
From The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson
To understand the world, we must understand the invisible.
From The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson
We are not simply passive observers; we are active participants in shaping our reality.
From A Thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins
People always think something's all true.
From The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
It's not things that upset us, but our judgments about things.
From The Art of Living by Epictetus
Our memories are not records but rather creative reconstructions.
Our experience of time is intertwined with the world around us.
From The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are.
From The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
The legacy of William Smith is not just his map but the way it changed our perception of the world.
People often confuse the visual with the functional.
The flow of time is an illusion.
From The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
The sense of smell is the most powerful of all the senses.
From The Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr
We often miss the obvious because we are blinded by our biases.
Our fears are often more powerful than the reality of our situation.
From Choose Wonder Over Worry by Amber Rae