Quotes About Perception

There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

When you travel, the world comes real and three-dimensional, impossibly vivid

Peoples think I's a harmless idiot," he said. "They's only half right.

I think the deeper we go, the less likelihood we'll have of being recognised as something unwanted. It's like the human body - the greatest density of pain receptors lies in the skin.

All data is stale. The photons reaching your eyes are stale. They tell you that you are looking at something real, but you have no information that the objects before you still exist. They may have vanished into oblivion the instant those photons took wing.

Truly, it was beautiful to watch. Cruel, too - I admitted that. But what was beauty without a little cruelty at its heart?

It was often difficult to tell if things were a hundred years old, or a hundred thousand.

Some people get it. Most people never will. But that's art.

First rule of complex systems," I said. "You can't tell friends from enemies.

Chiku felt something very close to vertigo, a dizzy sort of perception that she had only just begun to grasp the vertical depth of a very long life, the sense of how far it plumbed the past. A life that went down like a lift-shaft, each floor containing an ordinary life's worth of love and loss, adventure and disappointment, dreams and ruins, joy and sorrow.

Self-defence is an exceedingly elastic concept. Would you be so good as to narrow the parameters?

Surely you can hear him now?

Still, it was vision, or at least vision's idiot cousin.

That she had loved Sylveste because he was such a self-important bastard and made something noble of being a self-important bastard, did it with such utter aplomb that it became a kind of virtue, like the wearing of sackcloth

Perhaps there was some loop or circuit missing from the brains of people like Garlin, some absent process that prevented them from seeing themselves from outside their own skin, in all their ludicrousness. But to a degree, Sparver reflected, it must also be absent from those they swept up into their movements.

When you recall something - this conversation, perhaps, a hundred years from now - there will be things about it that you misremember. Yet those misremembered details will themselves become part of your memory, gaining solidity and texture with each instance of recall. A thousand years from now, your memory of this conversation might bear little resemblance to reality. Yet you'd swear your recollection was accurate.

Most of the people I interact with on a daily basis don't even know what I do for a living, so the 'persona' thing doesn't amount to much.

People associate me with being pernickety and down. In the past, I was guilty of keeping myself like that just to maintain my comic persona.

I think athletes are, in general, tired of so much of their persona being controlled by the media.

We culturally decided, as the personal computer came in, that it was for the boys.

I've always loved science fiction, fantasy, manga, comic books; so I guess, to some degree, those things influence my personal idea of what looks nice, which definitely isn't everyone else's.

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

I feel that kids are smart, and I feel that kids will understand things even if they don't understand them from personal experience.