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.

Our sexual ideas are also borrowed not from the sophisticate cultures who created the Kama Sutra, but from kindred brutalists, the Romans.

La gente en general maneja las situaciones por medio de suposiciones.

Return to church do I when the ways of this world distort my perceptions.

Contrary to what you might expect, people from more gender-egalitarian countries are often less egalitarian when it comes to the gender stereotypes they typically endorse.

On the other hand, preunderstandings are beliefs or perceptions that are fluid in that they are open to adjustment, refinement, or development by further interaction and reflection.

No son gente de ideas, los polis. El pensamiento tiene la irritante costumbre de sabotear las certidumbres.

Our perceptions about life are like a messaging feed. The flow creates a meaningful lifeline you can relate to, not just recall. Every action is like a post. It becomes a memory for future reference, that you may choose to share with others if you wish to help them learn.

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

I had become a victim of people's perceptions. It's not just me, I think all actresses are.

Obama just announced Americans don't consider themselves victims, or entitled. Actually, the vast majority of Obama supporters believe exactly that. They believe exactly that.

I suppose British people generally, probably have very stereotypical notions about the Irish that go back to Victorian times.

When people are surprised I can do things is always fun. Just because I have muscles doesn't mean I don't play video games.

We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.

I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.

In fact, the word transition seems to me to be used incorrectly. Most people use it to mean going from one identity to another, such as with surgery or the use of hormones. I understand it to mean that the person has the other identity already and the transition involves the perceptions of society aligning with that identity. In this "word flip" it is not the person who is transitioning but society, which is transitioning its perceptions of that person.

An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice... or terrify, all depending upon how we conduct ourselves today.

On the contrary, I like men. They are polite and helpful and necessary for dancing. And men are so handsome and different , aren't they?" "Not all of us, clearly, but I'll let that go.

Many customers form their opinions about the product or about the service solely by their contacts with the people that they see—contact men, I will call them.

Well, I think there's not much of a chance for me finding somebody of my age. Gentlemen of my age are dropping down 30 years to find girlfriends.

Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.

I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.

Dating a white girl is like dating a black girl if she were really passive-agressive.

As long as they're not still living with their parents, [dating younger men] could be viable.