Quotes About Perception

People generally can not believe themselves so easily manipulated and controllable. This is precisely why they are so easy to manpulate and contol.

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

None of them are willing to see themselves or others simply as what they are. All is colored with myth, with the ideal. Everyone is a figure in a cosmic drama—an imaginary drama.

1850: The Shoshones began to distinguish between "Americans," whom they liked as good friends, and "Mormons," whom they did not like.

Among the whites some think they can see and choose for others.

He cried for a vision and the answer was his blindness. He

Whenever you write down a perception or an idea, you reinforce the behavior of being perceptive or creative. Whenever you fail to describe or record such insights, you reinforce the behavior of being unperceptive and uncreative. Simple, isn't it?

every one of us has a constant stream of images going through our heads, which we usually don't even notice

they think the image must remain in their conscious view the whole time they're describing it. Not so. Even if the image flickers for a second and disappears, you can still keep describing it from memory, just as you described the Taj Mahal.

it is psychologically impossible to describe a person or object from memory without first forming a mental image of it

this observation leads Rozin to a stunning conclusion: "Disgust is the basic emotion of civilization.

Once out of your cradle, you don't focus on the world in the abstract, perceiving things for the first time, but in synchrony with your accumulated knowledge, which enriches and helps define your experience, as well as ensuring its uniqueness.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.

Too often the strong silent man is silent because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.