Quotes About Perception

So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?

When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us.

No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.

In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.

I'm not really a relationship expert but ... I'm an expert on manhood and what men think.

It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.

It's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person.

I've actually never been taken on a date in my whole life. I have never had a one-night stand. I'm a real relationship person — contrary to public perception.

My mom, we had a relationship. I knew she loved me. I always knew she loved me. But she didn't, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love. But I - I knew. I knew she did.

Seems like there's always someone who disapproves. They'll judge it like they know about me and you.

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.

A number of years ago, people were saying normal relationship with Cuba, what a bad and silly idea. They're Communists, they are our enemy. Well guess what? Change has come.

People are really concerned about my relationship status. When I tell people I'm happy being single, they don't believe me. They say: 'You have to be miserable being alone'.

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

He still lived as if he were twenty-two.

Reviews are for readers, not writers. If I get a bad one, I shrug it off. If I get a good one, I don't believe it

I do not believe in demons," I said, mostly to reassure myself that I had not, in fact, witnessed what I had seen. Churchill laughed. "I don't think he cares, old man.

As I remember them, late summer Saturdays were always hot, dry, and colored a deep green. I know now some Saturdays must have been gray; rain must have made water princesses dance in gutter puddles, as my grandmother assured me they did, each time a drop plunked down. But I will never really believe it rained on Saturdays, for I can remember only the sun playing with bits of broken glass in the vacant lot next to my house and myself running all day up and down the block like a heathen.

I never watched the sun when it was overhead dragging the day after it.

I like writing about what I saw and not what I was supposed to see.

People in America, they're getting dumber, they're getting less able to analyze something and think critically, and pick apart the underlying elements. And more and more ready to make a snap judgment regarding something at face value, which is too bad.

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

If others can see it as I have seen it, then it may be called a vision rather than a dream.