Quotes About Image

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

An image must be transformed by contact with other images as is a colour by contact with other colours. A blue is not the same blue beside a green, a yellow, a red. No art without transformation.

Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n Devotion!

The gilding holds the eye just long enough to let God enter the soul. The two-dimensional image does not require interpretation, and therefore doesn't stand between you and God the way it does in three-dimensional western art.

On second thought, though, maybe that was what being made in the Divine Image was all about. Eighty percent of all creatures are insects and sixty percent of all insects are beetles. If God was so inordinately fond of beetles, who could fault human beings for playing with paste?

A great many people have come up to me and asked me how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. My answer is 'Don't you wish you knew'

Remember, your own image and presence are materials you can control.

If you see yourself as an object, then others will too. An ethereal, dreamlike air will heighten the effect.

Remember, your own image and presence are materials you can control. The sense that you are engaged in this kind of play will make people see you as superior and worthy of imitation.

Understand: people will tend to judge you based on your outward appearance. If you are not careful and simply assume that it is best to be yourself, they will begin to ascribe to you all kinds of qualities that have little to do with who you are but correspond to what they want to see.

the personality we project to the world plays a substantial role in our success and in our ascension to mastery.

Tú pasas a ser entonces apenas una cosa más que clama atención; tu atractivo se acabará a menos que actives una clase de hechizo más durarero que haga que la gente piense en ti en tu ausencia. Esto significa cautivar su imaginación, haciéndole creer que en ti hay más de lo que ve. Una vez que la gente empiece a adornar tu imagen con sus fantasías, estará atrapada.

The more you are seen and heard from, the more common you appear.

Esa distancia interior nos fascina. Las estrellas se burlan de sí mismas, ajustan siempre su imagen, la adaptan a los tiempos. Nada es más risible que una imagen que estuvo de moda hace diez años pero que ya no lo está. Las estrellas deben renovar constantemente su lustre, o enfrentarán

Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you.

A good strategy to utilize is to see through the front they project. They inevitably try to cast a larger-than-life image, a mythic, intimidating quality; but in fact they are all too human, full of the same insecurities and weaknesses we all possess. Try to recognize these very human traits and demythologize them.

What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

who had the advantage of seeming to be an American without the disadvantage of actually being one; and Adeyemi

Maybe so, but in politics how things look is often more important than what they are.

We have learned to limit our emotions to such an extent that we won't let others in and we can't get out. We invest an inordinate amount of time and energy maintaining a façade, an image to hide behind.

Image perception makes a big difference. That's one of the things I tell entrepreneurs today. Fine, focus on products, focus on customers and all that good stuff - that's necessary. But the image that you project is also key. Don't forget that.

Looking a queen is not enough, her mother had told her often, but a fine mind, a keen grasp of affairs, and a brave heart will go for nothing if people do not see you as a queen.

How people see you first is what they hold hardest in their minds. It is the way of the world. You can step down from a throne, and even if you behave like a farmer in a pigsty, some part in each of them will remember that you did descend from a throne. But if they see only a young man first, a country man, they will resent him stepping up to his throne later, whatever his right, whatever his power.