Quotes About Perception

Obviously, having your peers' respect is everything. I learned that a long time ago: that some people see you one way, some people see you another way, but having your peers' respect is what's really important.

People want to peg you as alternative R&B when they hear soul or see the color of your skin. It's comfortable when people see artists of color or artists that come from a different country to put that brand on us. It's just not as linear as that.

Most industrial designers do a bottle or a pen or a computer - things that go right past your eye. When you see a chair, it's almost like a person. It's this great big thing in front of you. It hits you more.

What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.

It's always nice when people discover I'm a normal person and not, because of my appearance, a half-crazed lunatic who may stab them with a Bic pen.

I can see when people's minds are wrong. You can see when a footballer's going to miss a penalty.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

There's always a pencil in my bag. I put everything in pencil in my datebook. I live in L.A. - everyone's flaky.

Everyone wants to pencil you in as the kind of player that you're going to be after a few years in the big leagues. When you're still really young, they think that's what you're going to be forever.

Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.

No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.

Most people are oriented to words. When the public hears a melody, unless you put words to It, it takes longer to penetrate. It's always been like that, but I don't know why.

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

If you grow up in Germantown, Pennsylvania, as I did, 5:30 means 5:30.

I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad.

One person might be able to learn by reading, another will have a good audio memory, and another will make notes in different colored pens. I have a more multi sensory memory - I remember what I was doing when I learnt it and where I was.

I myself never feel that I'm sexy. If people call me cute, I am happier.

Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

Gay people are made and not born.

How can people change their minds about us if they don't know who we are?

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person.