Quotes About Perception

A lot of times, in a store, clothes appear strange to me, their cuts or flourishes arbitrary. Why is this look stylish now? How long will it be stylish for? It's slightly embarrassing to admit this - because, as a novelist, I'm supposed to be observant - but I'm flummoxed by the way other women dress.

If you had asked me growing up what a stylist does or what a magazine editor does, I would have had no clue - how do you research something like that when you are a first-born child of an immigrant who only grew up knowing doctor, engineer, and lawyer as careers?

People talk to me about celebrities all the time and which ones do I admire, and it's so hard because you can't tell who's doing it for themselves and who hired a stylist.

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.

We talk about characters in literature as though they were built on the model of the real person, but then I often think that the way we present ourselves as real people is based heavily on the way literary psychologies are stylized, and I wonder how the two forms of realistic personhood feed on or fulfill each other.

I can do anything onstage. Here's the misconception: You could record an album called 'The Best of Styx.' And all you would have to do is pay the individual songwriters a mechanical royalty.

When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.

The Beatles are here, and if you could see me my hand is on the ceiling. Styx is here, and my hand is in the basement.

In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.

You see George Clooney, and you think he's suave and handsome and really charming, but he's such a goofball!

People think I have the benefit of a public school education. I have this suave and debonair label, but really, I'm as common as muck.

I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.

There is this fallacy of the 'cool' comedian out there. You see the guys who take themselves very seriously and think they're being very suave and sardonic. But they're just jesters like the rest of us; they're just goons like we all are. The job is to make people laugh.

Stress is a byproduct of subconscious beliefs you have about the world. You can't choose not to believe something. You believe it because you think it's true. To eliminate stress, you must learn to challenge these beliefs so that you see them differently.

In our subconscious, we all know we're playing roles.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

Whatever you determine to be true in the subconscious becomes true for you.

You can understand so much about how consumers perceive a brand by analyzing their spontaneous, subconscious responses.

Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate.

Hollywood makes stuff that people absorb, and it lingers in your subconscious.

Whatever we take from a film - personal, public, private, subconscious - a list can only contain moments that are often a key to the recognition of something more complex.

Codes and signals are as important as explicit messages, and the two are linked. The bore pressing someone to tell them 'where they're really from' will see themselves as different to the aggressive stranger barking at someone to 'get back to their own country,' but the subconscious, if not explicit, message is the same.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.