Quotes About Perception

How do we picture the past? Does it become clearer as it drifts into the distance? Can it be seen from more angles, a better vantage, with finer instruments for optics, and more supporting documentation to draw from? Or has its essence already vanished, leaving space for lies to multiply and thrive, spreading across paperwork that is good for nothing except, perhaps, a nervous acting captain's next snack?

If you pay too much attention to time, in certain tedious moments, it slows down to punish you.

All the best paintings made you see various levels of reality at once. They sent you inward as well as outward.

I'd underestimated him. I assumed anyone who started out gut-punching you in an elevator couldn't have all that much else in his arsenal. For instance, I had no idea he could smile, let alone at such an inappropriate time.

The stumbling block will turn out to be the traditional one for students of consciousness: the flashlight is incapable of shining on itself, so we can't trust what its light reveals.

Escúchame. Soy tímido. No tonto. No puedo mirar a la gente a los ojos. No sé si entiendes lo que se siente. Hay todo un mundo que existe a mi alrededor, lo sé. No es que no quiera mirarte. Es que no quiero que me vean. Tengo miedo de lo que veréis dentro de mi. Me avergüenzo, me da miedo que me mires a los ojos y descubras algo malo, estropeado.

I've learned not to trust what I see on television.

The invisible are always so resolutely invisible, until you see them.

There are no metaphysics.

La calidad de una cena la determinan las conversaciones secundarias que la mayoría de la mesa no oye.

Her fiercest sincerities were translated by the male ego, on arrival, into daffy flirtation. (p. 24)

You can't reclaim a thing that changes as you touch it.

Mai infrangere le illusioni degli altri se non si è certi di poter offrir loro un'alternativa migliore di quella a cui li si vuole strappare.

Chaos didn't know what this meant. He kept feeling like somehow, intending to travel across land, he'd traveled through time instead.

You can't be deep without a surface.

The world was ersatz and actual, forged and faked, by ourselves and unseen others. Daring to attempt to absolutely sort fake from real was a folly that would call down tigers or hiccups to cure us of our recklessness. The effort was doomed, for it too much pointed past the intimate boundaries of our necessary fictions.

Yeah, maybe you look a little less familiar yourself.

The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.

That's stupid. That's people.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

Is he nuts? I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'. So that would be a yes.

Cultural listening is the skill of being able to see beyond the symptom to the underlying dynamic. It's an extremely powerful tool to develop as a leader, whether you're the CEO, a team leader, or a solopreneur just starting out.

To be a manager is to be part detective. The clues are everywhere, the skill is in reading them. When

Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die.