Quotes About Perception

In the movies, there's this idea that you're only desirable if you're physically dazzling.

For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is just that, a sensation, and different for everyone. Instead of one master clock, we have clocks in multitudes.

Apparently, some physicists argue that time is curved. I suppose this means that the past is in some way still present.

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.

But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.

Movement and physics: These are the fundamentals of animation. You don't notice that stuff if it's done well, but if fabric or liquid or hair moves weird, your brain is like, 'Wait, that's not real.'

I think for a long time we were just 10 percent women in physics, and so obviously people can see things in the way they've always been seen.

Although our body language governs the way other people perceive us, our body language also governs how we perceive ourselves and how those perceptions become reinforced through our own behavior, our interactions, and even our physiology.

The Japanese look most diminutive in European dress. Each garment is a misfit and exaggerates the miserable physique and the national defects of concave chests and bow legs. The lack of 'complexion' and of hair upon the face makes it nearly impossible to judge of the ages of men.

I don't like my physique. Who does?

I think that the ideal physique and look of a ballerina is always changing with different eras. And it's continuing to change.

Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.

Fingers don't have much to do with playing the piano. The idea that they do must be unlearned.

You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.

You just need the ear. But the ear is something, I guess, that you can't buy. And I can't play the piano fluently, but I feel like my ear is my strong point.

I played piano in a covers band, but that didn't especially help with girls. There is never a piano around after the shows. Guys with the guitars were the ones who got lucky.

You wouldn't expect a cattle dealer to sit down at a grand piano and play it beautifully. That's my father.

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

I didn't really start appreciating Picasso until a few years back. I didn't like him at all. But now I can see this world is crazy.

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?

When people say, 'I don't see you enough,' well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist, or just 'cause you haven't heard me don't mean I haven't been making noise. But if I keep making noise, you'll pick up.

If you pick up that information, the first metre or two, the ball coming out of the hand, you can analyse what's coming.