Quotes About Perception

People virtually never get two chances to make a good first impression. It is also a lot harder to reverse a bad first impression than to make a good first impression.

When a politician says 'yes', it really means 'may be', when he/she says 'may be', it really means 'no'. If a politician says 'no', it means that he/she is not a real politician.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

Men don't cry but their eyes just take bath sometimes

Kimse bana dünyan?n çirkin yüzünü görmeyi ögretmemiÅŸti ve ben her ÅŸeyi aptal gibi görüyor, hiçbir ÅŸeyi anlam?yordum.

DuyulmuÅŸ ezgiler güzeldir, duyulmam??lar? daha güzeldir.

Her ?ey karma??kt?r ve sorular yaln?zca yak?nl?k ve deneyim ile anla??labilecek ?eyleri basitle?tirir.

I was fourteen years old then and a person can feel old and wise at that age even when he really had no idea, and what he took for wisdom was only a precocious intuition arrived at without humility, just a little shit working things out for himself.

Finish last in your league and they call you Idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you Doctor.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

Qué es la felicidad? Nada. Una palabra para designar algo que siempre ocurre en el pasado, y, como siempre ocurre en el pasado, resulta que nunca ocurrió.

There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attributed to the human mind.

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals', or groups of individuals', experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their 'pursuit of happiness' to outright obliterating it.

MISUNDERSTANDING arises only when you see the things with Closed Eyes

Chi nata Pho pabohsa awpa heta ahy hmata âhnaw awpa châvei. Nâma nata keima tawhta tawhta pabohsana rai hria eimâ thao awpa a châ.

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

Reputation is like fine china once broken it's very hard to repair.

They have seen in his [Senator Stephen A. Douglas's] round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands. . . . Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.