Quotes About Perception

Dantes pensava que o amor se regia por números: primeiros beijos, segundas danças, desgostos infinitos. Estava convencido de que os números duravam mais tempo do que o amor em si, sobrevivendo nos recantos sombrios do coração destroçado. Pensava que o amor era algo pesado e duro.

Some people said a lot in quiet voices, some said nothing in loud ones.

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.

Insanity is applying a singular dimensional answer to a multi dimensional experience.

A year earlier, I had described campaigns to reporters as "like an MRI for the soul—whoever you are, eventually people find out.

When incumbents step down, voters rarely opt for a replica of what they have, even when that outgoing leader is popular. They almost always choose change over the status quo. They want successors whose strengths address the perceived weaknesses in the departing leader.

Indeed, depression changes the world itself and not just in the way the person views it.

For a long time, I used to think that I had a man's brain that I thought more like a man than a woman. But now I've come to realise that whatever it is I do think like, it's not like men; because men don't really think like men, they think like boys.

We live in a culture now where impact is more important than intent; where how things are taken is more significant than how they are meant.

law of Schrödinger's Whites, a brilliant conceit that I am not responsible for, in which Jews are white or non-white depending on the politics of the observer, in this context Krug's Jewishness enhances the story.

We live in a culture now where impact is more important than intent; where how things are taken is more significant than how they are meant. You have to listen to the people being talked about rather than the talker – and the power, throughout history, has tended to be with the talker, the person with the platform, rather than the talked-about, who are usually the ones affected.

As it happens, I look at that picture, and damn, he looks like family to me, too. But I know I would only be trolled on

do this – and very large lines appeared across his forehead. His nostrils flared, becoming even wider holes than they already were. Speak-No, Hear-No and See-No

it is the prerogative of those on the receiving end of any specific racism to define that racism.

Mr Mann … Sorry, is that really your name?" "Yes," said Mr Mann, frowning. He was sitting opposite Mr Carter's desk. Miss Malik was next to him. "As in … like … Mister Man?" "Brian Mann is my name, yes. As I've said.

Well, according to the law of Schrödinger's Whites, a brilliant conceit that I am not responsible for, in which Jews are white or non-white depending on the politics of the observer, in this context Krug's Jewishness enhances the story.

he was looking at Isla Fawcett, who was looking at her brother Morris, who had his eyes shut because he was asleep.

just look around you. I don't wish to be rude …

We have to know what's meant

documentaries

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.