Quotes About Misconception

At first, I didn't think playing guitar was the right thing for me to do. But after seeing Jimi Hendrix on television the day he died, I realized it was a really cool instrument to play and not wimpy at all, which was how I originally perceived it.

People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.

I think 'The Sopranos' probably solidifies the misconception that people have about New Jersey to begin with. Because you're from Jersey, and everybody has an accent, you are perceived a certain way. I don't know if they are jealous or in awe or look down their nose at you, but that's the way life is. If you don't like it, change the channel.

In the long period of time when I did talk shows and game shows, a whole new generation of people came along who thought of me as that, and not as a theater person.

People always make that mistake when they talk about theatre - the notion of the 'theatrical' meaning something separate from life. If it doesn't relate to life, it doesn't relate to anything.

There. You see? You're just figuring it out now, but I discovered a long time ago that the smarter you are, the more tempting it is to just let people imagine you. We move through each other's lives like ghosts, leaving behind haunting memories of people who never existed. The popular jock. The mysterious new girl. But we're the ones who choose, in the end, how people see us. And I'd rather be misremembered. Please, Ezra, misremember me.

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

MASSIVES, fat heads who assume that television tells the truth" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 165

desde que López Obrador fuera candidato a la presidencia en 2006 y 2012, se reveló claramente como un político conservador. Pero su aureola populista confundió a muchos, que lo siguieron tomando como un líder de izquierda, incluso radical, amenazador para la derecha y esperanzador para los progresistas.

Wesley noted that "to say, 'This man is an Arminian,' has the same effect on many hearers, as to say 'This is a mad dog.' "11

Denial and hope, of course, are cousins. Bring them together, you've got illusion.

Milk = fat. Butter = fat. Cheese = fat. People who think these products can be low fat or fat free = fucking morons.

but personally if I never drink another crocodile pee I shall be a happy man.' 'Crocodile pee?' 'I always assumed that that was the main ingredient in Gatorade, but I may be wrong.

Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.

We have a definition in our heads of what an advantage is—and the definition isn't right. And what happens as a result? It means that we make mistakes.

there is something profoundly wrong with the way we make sense of success. What is the question we always ask about the successful? We want to know what they're like—what kind of personalities they have, or how intelligent they are, or what kind of lifestyles they have, or what special talents they might have been born with. And we assume that it is those personal qualities that explain how that individual reached the top.

that much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of these kinds of lopsided conflicts, because the act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty. And second, that we consistently get these kinds of conflicts wrong. We misread them. We misinterpret them. Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear

Goliath was blind to his approach—and then he was down, too big and slow and blurry-eyed to comprehend the way the tables had been turned. All these years, we've been telling these kinds of stories wrong. David and Goliath is about getting them right.

what we think of as an advantage and as a disadvantage is not always correct, that we mix the categories up.

There is something about the idea of coupling—of the notion that a stranger's behavior is tightly connected to place and context—that eludes us. It leads us to misunderstand some of our greatest poets, to be indifferent to the suicidal, and to send police officers on senseless errands. So what happens when a police officer carries that fundamental misconception—and then you add to that the problems of default to truth and transparency? You get Sandra Bland. 1

the least about him personally. The people who were wrong about Hitler were the ones who had talked with him for hours. This could all be a coincidence, of course. Perhaps Chamberlain and his cohort, for whatever private reason, were determined to see the Hitler they wanted to see, regardless of the evidence of their eyes and ears. Except that the same puzzling pattern crops up everywhere.

Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realize I was going to get educated.