Quotes About Perceptions

He was mad with hope. In reasonable measure, hope sustains us. In great excess, it distorts perceptions, dulls the mind, corrupts the heart to no less an extent than does heroin.

Audiences sometimes emit these weird frequencies that make you think you've weirded them out.

I thought actors were artists and that artists had to be European.

Those are just platitudes. Everyone has his own idea of "playing fair." "Does he? Try making up your own idea of what's fair--say, "giving the greatest rewards to the laziest workers"--and see how seriously people take you.

This might sound odd, but I believe that one of the biggest reasons there are so many negative perceptions of Christianity and the church is that Christians hang out with each other too much.

Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.

The basic approach, though, usually entails listening and providing lots of verbal and nonverbal empathy. This is how we attune to our children, tuning in to the inner life of their mind—to their feelings and thoughts, to their perceptions and memories, to what has inner subjective meaning in their lives.

I like the idea that people who see 'Gone Girl' are possibly going to come out with incredibly different reactions to it - not just between men and women, but if you are in a good relationship or a bad relationship. Everyone is going to bring their own bundle of prejudices and viewpoints and experiences to it.

I think we, the Republicans, have been mistyped as unfriendly to minorities and not receptive to minority views.

Many people have strong views on McDonald's.

I'm interested in people with very exceptional world views or realities.

It was great to be able to play a hero in 'The Magnificent Seven' in a film industry where Asian actors are often limited to playing a villain.

Contrary to popular belief, I don't just play dreadful old villains.

One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.

There were lots of perceptions about me, right from being gay to casting couch to being a drunkard to getting violent, none of what I am in real life.

When I started watching comedy there was a lot of negativity about women; a lot of comics were spewing out aggressive, violent and negative material.

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.

We choose our thoughts. We choose our perceptions. We choose our attitudes. We may not think so. We may not believe it, but we do. I absolutely know we do. I've seen enough evidence, time after time, tragedy after tragedy. Triumph after triumph. It's about choice.

And this, Agent Nichol, is the key. It's choice.' 'Choice?' 'We choose our thoughts. We choose our perceptions. We choose our attitudes.

Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.

The images we see, as a culture, help define and expand our dreams, our perceptions of what is possible. Pictures of who we are help us visualize who we can be.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

My mother was a fine woman. But it couldn't have worked. Dad was such a macho guy and she was eight years older and becoming matronly.