Quotes About Perceptions

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence.

The value of a novel is not limited to its depiction of emotions and people akin to those in our own life; it stretches to an ability to describe these far better than we would have been able, to put a finger on perceptions that we recognize as our own, but could not have formulated on our own.

The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is made of nothing but signs and symbols. Nothing but language. Even God requires language before conceiving the Universe. See Genesis: "In the beginning was the Word.

My impressions of contemporary France were mixed. I personally felt that it was quite provincial.

In time he found that all his perceptions were subject to the same easy control

27 per cent of Canadians think that Ottawa deals with issues that are important to them.

I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting.

Remember that our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is at the center of our life.

La postura que desarrollaré en este trabajo define la intersubjetividad como una relación de reconocimiento mutuo; una relación en la que cada persona experimenta al otro como "sujeto afín", como otra mente "con la que se puede sentir", y que, al mismo tiempo, posee un centro de sensaciones y percepciones distinto y separado.

Aye. There's time enough between battles to knit a dozen scarves and a hundred stockings, as well I know." He gave a little bark of laughter. "I thought soldiers spent their idle time dicing and wenching." She gave a surprisingly girlish giggle.

knowing begins with the awareness of the deceptiveness of our common sense perceptions, in the sense that our picture of physical reality does not correspond to what is "really real" and, mainly, in the sense that most people are half-awake, half-dreaming, and are unaware that most of what they hold to be true and self-evident is illusion produced by the suggestive influence of the social world in which they live.

I have never liked Americans, except odd ones. In the mass I have always thought them dreadful!

He had destroyed his talent by not using it, by betrayals of himself and what he believed in, by drinking so much that he blunted the edge of his perceptions, by laziness, by sloth, and by snobbery, by pride and by prejudice, by hook and by crook. What was this? A catalogue of old books? What was his talent anyway? It was a talent all right but instead of using it, he had traded on it. It was never what he had done, but always what he could do.

Strange habits the Americans have! To imagine a lawyer as a gentleman is a contradiction in terms, surely!

Women don't need money. I mean what for? They don't drink, they don't play dice, and they're bloody women themselves.

That's the trouble with stereotypes: they are not wholly disconnected from the truth.

Both my husband and I wanted a boy. I wasn't sure what I'd do with a daughter. What if she asked for a Barbie? I would have been like, 'Honey, we don't support Barbie because she isn't an accurate depiction of a woman's body.'

People have all these preconceptions about me. Whereas if you look at the roles, Henry Hill was the nicest guy in 'Goodfellas!' I was a nice guy too in the comedy 'Heartbreakers.' And I was a really sweet father to Johnny Depp in 'Blow!'

People say that New Yorkers aren't friendly, but I think they're more friendly than Londoners. Here there is a front-footed nature of Americans. You can go out on a night out and meet 10 random people and stay in touch with them, whereas that's not going to happen in the same way in London.

One of the very, very exciting things I have found here in L.A. is that no one talks to you about being Scottish. Whereas, if you are in London and you are trying to put films together and be a film-maker, there is a kind of unspoken sense that, if you are Scottish, you have something to overcome or else you cannot really do that project.

I look like a typical Bengali. Whereas the qualities people were used to seeing in heroes were dance and action, which aren't really Bengali characteristics.

I like to question cultural biases wherever I go, and I question Islamophobia as much as I question anti-western sentiment because I think all extremist ideologies are very similar.

I have a philosophy that white people would be interested in Native Americans because, first of all, it's probably the only group as a country we all study and know the history and then never study again past the age of 10. So I think we have these things we believe are true, that are just not true about what an audience wants.