Quotes About Perception

Tullius Cicero said: "The eyes are the window to the soul.

For persuasive purposes, the opinion of your audience is as good as what it knows, and what it thinks is true counts the same as the truth.

A good posture makes you almost as respectable as a cat. People will see you as a confident person. They may even ask if you've been working out. A good posture can give the appearance of losing 10 to 20 pounds.

Así, cuando te enfrentes a un hombre enfadado, muéstrate serio y preocupado; no le grites «¡Venga, amargado!» Cuando una niña parece triste, la empatía implica parecer triste también; no significa decirle alegremente: «¡Anímate!»

It's not a case of 'look at me in my car' it's more, 'look at the car'. I like the idea of other people enjoying them, because everything has become a bit faceless and nobody likes the motor car any more.

We each pace against the bars that cage us." "Your cage is the world," I said in frustration, though I did not mean to strike for his heart. "Everyone's cage is the world. Some worlds are smaller than others.

Is it a manly game," he asked, for while men are ruled by their loins, those loins have two small brains each no larger than an olive and thus do not think well.

My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality.

The foremost quality of a commander is to keep a cool head, to receive accurate impressions of what is happening, and never fret or be amazed or intoxicated by good news or bad. The

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

I'd urge you to try German Riesling because it's delicious, but I fear you'll be more impressed if I tell you it's cutting-edge. That, after all, is what we want to know-- what's now and happening. (Do you really think clunky square-toed shoes make your feet look better than those with slimming, tapered toes? You just wear them because that's what fashion dictates, you slut.)

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you have been betrayed.

It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a directly apprehended reality.

To me, God is a name that humans give to all that is. Experientially, it is whatever is left over when the delusion of the self is taken away.

Consciousness is a dance between perception and memory.

It is not an easy thing to alter the trajectory of your life. People have expectations on your behalf. You come to believe them yourself.

Robert Frost suggested (with his usual sly wit) that a person uneducated in the operations of metaphor was not safe in the world, should not even be let out of doors.

From inside our turn-of-the-century Italianate home, I watched them standing out on the sidewalk or peering from their car windows. I always wondered what they were looking for. Did they imagine life in the old homes was like a life they dreamed of and didn't have? Did they think the traces of fading graciousness and entitlement that emanated from the aging plaster and hardwood floors endowed the current occupants with lives that were more meaningful than their own?

If men were from Mars and women from Venus, I was from an unknown star in neither orbit. My sensitivity, as finely honed a skill as I possessed, still lacked a working edge with my Andrea.

Aus irgendeinem Grund ist das, was mich berührt, immer etwas, das ich nicht verstanden habe.

I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional - and that's not me at all!

Love is blind. God is Love. Ray Charles is blind. Therefore Ray Charles must be God"14 Tom Waits was already a believer.

The dividing line between SM sex and "vanilla" sex can sometimes be arbitrary.

She's really not my kind of girl — most of them have tattoos or nose rings — but there's something about her smile. She smiles like she's in love with whoever she's looking at. She smiled at me a few months ago. I've been trying to get her to do it again ever since.