Quotes About Perceptions

I try to make very careful decisions about what I choose to do, and it's - I know that unfortunately one of the misperceptions about me, I think, is that I'm sort of a moth to the limelight.

Politics boils down to the stories we tell ourselves. And unfortunately, we tell ourselves different stories.

Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.

The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.

We are taught to believe it's bad to be angry, or at least it's not good. That's not the case all throughout the world. People are more open and not embarrassed about it. For instance in Paris, people believe Americans have a really unhealthy relation with anger. They think it's essential to get angry.

The reasons America isnt liked in various countries isnt uniform. The reasons can be different.

I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.

Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.

Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.

Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why.

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

I thought that's what happened to women: You live alone when you're old.

I've been on this earth for sixty-six years, and I've reached a conclusion and it's a fact: women are strange creatures.

Men are less sentimental than women. No man has ever seen the movie THE WAY WE WERE twice, voluntarily.

I think it's a Pew survey of Millennials, and the first one is that more and more Millennial-aged women are ashamed and embarrassed that they earn more than their husbands or boyfriends.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Women do date better than men. They'll get prepared. Men just kind of show-up.

Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.

People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works.

It's funny, because what happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.

To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.