Quotes about Perception Formation

Ken Baumann

Mistakes quickly pile up and coalesce into a reputation, and a reputation is hard to shake.

Christopher Lasch

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

Wallace Stegner

Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.

Meryl Streep

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

Peter Atwater

When it comes to our perceptions, one is an event, two is a pattern, three is a trend, and four is fact.

Observation of the number of pharmaceutical companies that raised the price over by huge percentages on one or more of their high selling, life preserving drugs. There were some who claimed that there was a plan by the pharmaceutical industry to take advantage of the fact that certain drugs were necessary to preserve life. The quotation however was an excellent description of how the general public makes decisions about many aspects of economics, crime, corruption, and many other aspects of our society. The principle not only seems to generally hold for negative things but also positives such as whether a government program is working or whether a company innovates great products.

Marshall McLuhan

The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. That is propaganda at its most extreme form.

Paul Celan

Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.

Howard Rheingold

We are taught what reality is in all kinds of ways.

Perception Formation Quotes