Quotes About Perception

Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. ...if you look very intensely and slowly, things will happen that you never dreamed of before.

The inner drama is the meaning of the exterior event.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

There is order and even great beauty in what looks like total chaos. If we look closely enough at the randomness around us, patterns will start to emerge.

the packaging is more important than the content.

In books, even the very best boy detectives are dismissed with a laugh. In real life, they're sent to psychologists.

People pick the stories they want to be true and they believe them. It doesn't make the stories true.

Rumors are as important as anything. Even if they're not true, they end up turning people into who they are.

She clued me in to the idea of alternate realities. Like, there are infinite versions of the world. Each a bit different. Existing, I don't know where...somewhere. And an alternate reality is created every time we make a choice.

Let's face it, our memories aren't perfect. We don't get anything exactly right.

You tend to tell yourself that feeling something is always better than feeling nothing.

And yet all things, even strange and wondrous ones, lose their luster with time. They always do.

Most stories, especially difficult ones, are a mix of truth and lies.

Now, as we all know, a group of dolphins is called a pod, a group of crows is called a murder, and so on. Henceforth, I'd like all groups of people who call themselves reporters but are actually only bloggers writing listicles to be known as a scumbag.

Your flavor in my mind swings back and forth between sweeter than any wine and as bitter as mustard greens.

I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

I had thought that if I kept myself busy, time would move faster, but no matter what I did, every second felt like an hour.

Women are not difficult; but they are difficult to understand. Men are not easy; but they are easy to understand.

It is better to be a naïve believer than an intellectual bereft of intuition.

Hand the secular Arab a glass of urine, and tell him that it is wine. He will not only pretend to enjoy it, he will enjoy it.

The believer's greatest argument is his face. True religion lights up the face; false religion fills it with insecurity, rage and suspicion. This is perceptible not only to insiders (Muslims), but to anyone.

par quelle cécité les hommes s'empêchent-ils de vivre leur vérité?