Quotes About Perception

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.

Well, you create your own persona, don't you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they don't think that I'm a lunatic. And if they do, then that's OK, because it means that I'm playing the parts all right.

The hard part for me was being an Olympic gold medalist and having that persona; you don't see too many Olympic gold medalists go into acting. It's actually even more difficult. You're not taken very seriously, and you're looked at in a different light, so it was kind of hard for me to go straight from Olympics into acting.

There's still people who think me being married to a sista is an act. What, you think I'd make that up for a persona?

There's a persona that musicians carry with them. I like to find what's under the persona.

In my career, I really set out not to develop too strong a persona so that you wouldn't have a hard time imagining me in any given role. I wanted to pleasantly confuse the audience on who I was.

When my first show was on MTV, and it was this outrageous persona, I think people certainly didn't know what to think. But it was a performance. I'm sure people didn't know that it was a performance; they thought maybe I was just nuts, but that was all intentional.

There are many more languages than we think: and man betrays himself more often than he desires. How things speak! - but there are very few listeners, so that man can only, as it were, chatter on in the void when he pours out his confessions: he squanders his 'truths', as the sun does its light. - Isn't it rather a pity that the void has no ears?

To deprive the bourgeoisie not of its art but of its concept of art, this is the precondition of a revolutionary argument.

Que me terrassant aient vécu, plus haut et clair que nous ne vivons, ceux qui furent à peine et redeviennent si peu.

Y lo mismo que yo, alzando la cara entre dos restas, entre dos párrafos, miraba aquella plétora por los cristales de la ventana, detrás de la lluvia que sólo cubre el mundo para que podamos ver en su lugar nuestros sueños, la saciedad de nuestros sueños detrás de esa cortina gris donde todo está permitido.

The impression that the world could swallow itself (…) and in a reverse movement could vomit it to a distant innermost, that would answer to the name 'nowhere'.

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.

Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.

By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

To-day, the man who pays taxes to the amount of two hundred francs is virtuous; the talented man is the honest pickpocket: such truths as these are accounted trivial.

It is easier to judge the mind of a man by his questions rather than his answers.

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

A bit beyond perception's reach I sometimes believe I see that life is two locked boxes each containing the other's key.

MEETING THE EYE You'll probably find that it suits your book to be a bit cleverer than you look. Observe that the easiest method by far is to look a bit stupider than you are.

Knowing what Thou knowest not Is in a sense Omniscience.