Quotes About Perceptions

If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend.

It's going to sound terribly glib and cliched but the more I learn about animals, the more convinced I am that almost all the fears we have about them are unfounded.

It is terrific to be involved with changing people's perceptions, and the world is changing.

People have always made assumptions about me. I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

Feelings are designed to encode judgments about things in our environment.

They looked at her quizzically, came at her with assumptions, presumptions, what they believed was intimate knowledge of her. She felt unarmed, by comparison; disadvantaged.

Tan encadenados estamos a nuestro rol, en esta sociedad en la que vivimos a través de estereotipos. Como dice Elena en su ensayo de Pares e impares: hay un rol de hombre, otro de mujer. Uno de anciano, otro de joven. Lo hay de padre y de hijo, de mujer tradicional o liberada, de loco y de cuerdo, de triunfador y de vencido. Son todos personajes rígidos, vacíos, irreales: distorsionados reflejos de personas.

Having sex multiple times on the first sleepover does not count as more than one "date"…

Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.

It has been noticed that, in the face of imminent danger, a man rarely remains at his normal level; he either rises well above himself or dips well below. The same happens to nations. Extreme dangers, instead of lifting a nation, sometimes end by bringing it low; they arouse its passions without giving them direction and confuse its perceptions without clarification.

Kay and Beverly were a disappointment to me. They worked hard at Modern Languages, but their conversation and preoccupations seemed hardly different from those of girls who might work in banks or offices.

What beliefs and perceptions about you and your life have you been unconsciously agreeing to that you'd have to change in order to create this new state of being?

beliefs and perceptions are subconscious states of being. They start with thoughts and feelings that you think and feel over and over, until they ultimately become habituated or automatic—at which point they form an attitude.

Attitudes strung together become beliefs, and related beliefs strung together become perceptions. Over time, this redundancy creates a view of the world and of yourself that's largely subconscious.

habit is when your body is the mind. Ninety-five percent of who you are by the time you're 35 years old is a set of memorized behaviors, skills, emotional reactions, beliefs, perceptions, and attitudes that functions like a

So the only way to change your beliefs and perceptions in order to create a placebo response is to change your state of being. You have to finally see your old, limited beliefs for what they are—records of the past—and be willing to let go of them so that you can embrace new beliefs about yourself that will help you create a new future.

Part II of this book, metaphysics moves into concrete manifestation. You can do these meditations yourself easily, experiencing firsthand the expanded possibilities of being your own placebo. The goal here is to change your beliefs and perceptions about your life at a biological level so that you are, in essence, loving a new future into concrete material existence.

maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places.

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

Aloneness is inevitable in being human. People cannot accept this. They should be aware of it and use it. It heightens your perceptions.

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69)

Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.

The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me.