Quotes About Perception

No one responds or even looks at him. It's as if he didn't say it. If an accountant says words in a kitchen and no one listens, did he make a sound?

in California everyone wants to know what kind of car you drive. In the South it's which church you attend. And here it's what kind of dog you have.

Bad things happen in nice places, and nice things happen in bad places. But that doesn't mean the places themselves are hard to tell apart.

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

History is not truth — it records not what occurred but what is remembered.

She was a bit horsey-looking, but her face exuded both confidence and warmth.

A window let in light, which was a metaphor for knowledge and understanding.

One's perception of something often depended on just how the light hit it.

He had read once that God was like a mirror — the mirror never changed but the people who looked into it all saw something different. Unfortunately most people looked in and viewed their own face, confident it had been created in God's own image.

Cam smiled wryly. "Priests and lawyers. Not exactly the most popular members of society right now, are we?" "And to think, mothers used to dream of their children becoming lawyers or clergymen.

As circus owner David Hannum famously said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' And, no, dear reader, it was not P.T Barnum who spoke these wise words.

no such thing as the truth. There are only shades of lies.

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man; when a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Chicago delighted me," he wrote, "because it was just as chaotic as my own mind, and I found my own preposterous state of consciousness reflected and exaggerated at every turn.

La cantidad de dolor que experimenta un sujeto está influenciada por cualquier persona que esté alrededor. En experimentos de dolor, los hombres muestran un umbral de dolor más alto si son evaluados por mujeres. Asimismo, cuando están acompañados por su esposa, los pacientes con una esposa muy atenta y cariñosa sufrirán más dolor que aquellos que tienen una esposa menos afectuosa y atenta. Pregúntate por qué.

The stress on observation and the reality principle—you can believe what you see, so long as you see what I see—paid off beyond understanding.

Names are an important key to what a society values. Anthropologists recognize naming as 'one of the chief methods for imposing order on perception.'

Being in love is dangerous because you talk yourself into thinking you've never had it so good.

The late sculptor Ken Price put it best: "Nothing I can say is going to improve how it looks.

One way to look at a painting—and I use that word as shorthand for visual art in general—is to notice as you take its measure what it is you actually find yourself thinking about, which may differ from what you imagine you're supposed to be thinking about.

After the devastation wrought by the Yeltsin era, almost any new leader was likely to be perceived as a potential savior. Russians saw in Putin what they wanted him to be, rather than what he was. He also took power at a moment when the Russian economy started to expand.

People who observe me say I'm so much happier." Ironically, Yahoo has become a proxy for Alibaba and nothing more, and only Yang got a seat on Alibaba's board, nobody else from Yahoo did. 53 The

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...