Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions.

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions.

Perceptions, threats and challenges obviously change over time, and they will continue to do so.

Market pressure has also been important in pushing Chinese media to embrace change. Contrary to foreign perceptions, only a handful of Chinese media for example,

The main challenge is to mainstream the need to change public perceptions in all government policies particularly in the education and media and information sector.

It's perceptions, thoughts, feelings, dreams.

It seems that this story helped change perceptions about the DFS, at least in the minds of an audience in part on televisions, read magazines and whose huts aren't on fire.

And we talk about how women have such strong perceptions, because of our tenuous position and our role as tradition keepers, that we can have the great potential to be change agents.

Both perceptions would be false, both reactions dangerous.

Now, I'm actually going to ask you to try something, so you've got to pay attention. Complexity if you spend enough time doing something, time slows down or your skill increases, so your perceptions change.

Maybe real estate prices are unlikely to fall to pre boom levels because the fundamental change in perceptions concerning capitalism s triumph will be longstanding. Changes in people s fundamental ways of thinking are not easily reversed.

Here, too, changing perceptions of climate change offer renewed hope for progress. Spurred by increased public awareness and mounting evidence that national economies can reap net benefits from policies to mitigate climate change, governments worldwide are pledging to do so and taking to multilateral forums to display those commitments.

And moreover, it profoundly changes your perceptions by what you do.

The Members of the Organization have differing perceptions of those issues.

Given those differing cultural perceptions, the reform proposals were extremely ambitious.

What's true for color is also true for complex perceptions of motion.

For work in three dimensions, with your perceptions of space and time.

(ii) To promote positive perceptions and greater social awareness towards persons with disabilities

Provide on the other hand elements on what works to counter fatalistic perceptions.

We must make conscientious efforts to do away with wrong perceptions, misunderstandings and ignorance.

The Government had also been working closely with non governmental and faith based organizations, as well as traditional rulers, to change long held attitudes and perceptions about women and to inculcate in male youth respect for the fundamental rights of women and girls.

Furthermore, indigenous communities from around the world share similar perceptions about the nature of these challenges.

I want to end by applying the idea of Middle World to our perceptions of each other.

However, minority communities' perceptions of their security have as much impact on freedom of movement as objective assessments.

It is the ideology of fear that incites fear and conflictive perceptions of other peoples, with the very harmful effects with which we are familiar, in relations among political, cultural and religious communities and which takes advantage of that fear and erroneous perceptions to achieve its ends.

And there's a lot of evidence that neural activity is encoding our thoughts, feelings and perceptions, our mental experiences.

Somewhere, in a pattern like this, is you, your perceptions, your emotions, your memories, your plans for the future.

There's a real disjunction between the patient's perception and our own perceptions as physicians of the best medical care.

For too long, the differences between the US and the Muslim world have been framed not in terms of diversity, but as the foundations of a permanent global conflict. But when people participate in an aesthetic experience that both addresses and transcends a particular culture, perceptions are bound to change.

Now, I want to tell you a story about seeing differently, and all new perceptions begin in the same way.

They ask the reporters to suggest names for each column no proof is needed, perceptions and gut feelings are enough.

Moreover, certain couples prefer to forego the imposed religious marriage because it contradicts their perceptions of marriage and marry abroad.

It also notes with concern the persistence of cultural and traditional perceptions of girls that limit their access to education.

They develop new norms by directly pressing governments and businesses to change policies, and indirectly by altering public perceptions of what governments and firms should do. NGO's do not have coercive hard power, but they often enjoy considerable soft power the ability to get the outcomes they want through attraction rather than compulsion.

Two I failed to realize how quickly the negative perceptions of other people can impact our reality, if we let it.

Agreements that lack serious verification provisions are essentially only declarations of good intent, subject to changing politico security perceptions without notice.

So are Pakistan s people. But the two have different sets of concerns and herein lie their inherently different perceptions of the situation.

Cooperation may also be hampered by perceptions of national industrial or trade policies influencing competition decisions, or inspiring leakage of confidential information.

We share his perceptions on the recent episodes of terrorism and on their probable impact on the work of the 1267 Committee.

Delegations have different perceptions of what constitutes a threat to their national security, and which of the core issues should take precedence.

In addition, a number of countries with nuclear energy programs have the capability, if they choose, to manufacture nuclear weapons within a matter of months if their security perceptions change, because they have mastered the critical technology uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing. If more countries take this path, it could prove to be the Achilles heel of non proliferation.

I'm asking you to do this because I believe our personal perceptions, you see, are at the heart of how we acquire knowledge.

And also dealing with the perceptions that are put about Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, the links that were put about pre Iraq war.

Prostitution, trafficking and other forms of violence against women are based in sociocultural perceptions and attitudes about the relationships between men and women

The decision to practice contraception is affected by six factors the strength of the motivation to avoid pregnancy knowledge about contraception costs of practicing contraception, specifically perceptions of the social, cultural, and religious acceptability of contraception perceptions of the husband's opposition to family planning health concerns about contraception and access to family planning of acceptable quality.