Quotes About Perceptions

The other thing he railed against, after 'Mexican time' and lame excuses, was bad teeth. Mexicans could not afford bad teeth if they expected gringos to take them seriously.

Men have broad shoulders and narrow hips, and accordingly they possess intelligence. Women have narrow shoulders and broad hips. Women ought to stay at home; the way they were created indicates this, for they have broad hips and a wide fundament to sit upon.

Poetry is another name for a person's telling of the self, existence and what is beyond, and one's own perceptions.

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.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

During the Bosnian conflict, an international tribunal was established to prosecute the perpetrators of crimes against humanity. I was a firm advocate of the tribunal because only through a judicial process is it possible to establish individual culpability for crimes that might otherwise be attributed to an entire group—and nothing does more to trigger additional cycles of violence than perceptions of collective guilt.

through a judicial process is it possible to establish individual culpability for crimes that might otherwise be attributed to an entire group—and nothing does more to trigger additional cycles of violence than perceptions of collective guilt.

Words are important. Words shaper our perceptions. When they define, they can also distort. There is a far better way to describe this man whose face is the most human face of all. Jesus is beautiful.

Story is how we figure things out, bring order and meaning to the events around us. The story we hold at any given time shapes our perceptions, hopes, and expectations; it gives us a place to stand.

Ordinary experience, from waking second to second, is in fact highly synthetic (in the sense of combinative or constructive), and made of a complexity of strands, past memories and present perceptions, times and places, private and public history, hopelessly beyond science's powers to analyse. It is quintessentially 'wild' ... unphilosophical, irrational uncontrollable, incalculable.

Oh well. Part of being single was dealing with the misconceptions of others.

But don't you see how your … opinions can be disturbing? It's very American—to have opinions as … strong as your opinions. It's very Canadian to distrust strong opinions." "I'm a Canadian," I said. "I've

Canon Campbell told me that most smart-ass Canadians tend to move to the United States. I

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.

To me, it's not about being anywhere, but being able to change my perceptions and experience something new.

Why the fu.. does the horoscope always talk sh.. about Leo's being strong & sexual but not about being kind and emotional?

Life is built on perceptions, something between life and death, reality and fantasy.

Her head was small and round and it held small round convictions.

People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.

Behind the prettiest smile hides the darkest secrets, Behind the kindest heart resides the cruelest pain. Looks could be quite deceiving...And your perceptions about certain characters could be wrong...he truth turns into lies, happiness to sorrows.Honesty died in vain a long time ago. Even a loving heart could be so hollow...

Being nice gets you no where. I'm tired of people taking my kindness for weakness..

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.