Quotes About Perception

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.

I guess people think the taller you are the more dominant you have to be.

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

If there is a lack in your life it is because there is a lack in your thoughts.

The world's deadliest poison, can be your own thoughts.

You measure a player from the head up.

Some guys need to see things on a grease board, ... I like when you can see it in your mind. And that's what Marvin does, too. He visualizes. He sees things in his mind so well.

Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you.

A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.

It's not a matter of how old you are, it's how you feel.

Our expectations determine how we respond. Be careful what you expect.

We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

You create your reality according to your beliefs and expectations, therefore you should examine these carefully. If you do not like some aspect of your world, then examine your own expectations.

Delusion is the seed of dreams.

There is nothing so special or boring nor there are any weak or strong things in this world. It is we and our surficial perception that creates these types of environment

The alchemy of life is to turn coins into cents, by making sense of change.

In order for someone to be 100% content, they must first believe it to be so.