Quotes About Perception

It's a piece of cake, being a lawyer or a doctor or a computer systems analyst or an accountant. Libraries are full of books telling you how to do it. The only textbooks for private eyes are on fiction shelves, and I don't remember ever reading one that told me how to interrogate an eight-year old without feeling like I was auditioning for the Gestapo.

Believe them and they'll tell you all sorts of things.

Let them, let them scratch where it itches, it's a real human itch to gossip, to go over someone's bones until they're picked clean. They can't live without it. And you just keep quiet, do your work, and don't taunt them--they'll stop sooner. And then it'll be someone else's turn, and you'll be with the others again. Is this the first time? The very thing they blame you for, they'll praise you for later. People…

Believe them and they'll you all sorts of things.

But how can you keep watch on a woman? A woman can fool herself, not to mention others.

When you tell the truth, they don't believe you. And it was easier to tell the truth.

In an ordinary portrait the woman comes forward to meet whoever looks at her, and tells her own story. But here, the real woman lurks a hundred leagues behind the equivocal gaze, entirely closed to herself, a plant rooted yet in the mysterious soil out of which it has come.

Die Vermessung der Intelligenz verschiedener Menschen, mit hausbackenen oder statistisch geschliffenen Methoden, irritiert naturgemäß breite Bevölkerungsschichten.

Social media draws us further into the already persistent habit of becoming stars of our own little personal movies. The movies we replay in our heads — held on to from lives past — cause us to recycle stories that no longer serve us, if they ever did.

Gwen, a woman with BPD, talks about her inability to decipher the world around her. "On the day I was born, all the newborn babies got on a line to meet God and to get their How to Act in All Situations Throughout Life book. When it was my turn, God had run out of the book. Ever since that day, I have been looking over other people's shoulders so that I could read their book and know how to act.

People with BPD judge themselves harshly all the time and find judgments lurking around the corner of every raised eyebrow, sneeze, yawn, or shoulder shrug. You must be acutely aware of how your responses can be misconstrued as judgments.

The male claim that females find fulfillment through motherhood and sexuality reflects what males think they'd find fulfilling if they were female.

RUSSEL. When he grows up I want to be able to point to him and say: "There goes my son -- the man". I want to live in a masculine culture. BONGI. That's a contradiction in terms.

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Remember, if you hold something close enough, you lose your ability to see it.

How long have I been walking? I don't remember any more, I can't count days or months. Is that the moon, the sun? I can't tell. The night star will sometimes light up the infinite fields of snow with an intensity like that of the sun, while the daytime star rises from the fog-shrouded horizon like a pale moon. The ice reflects the light like water does.

Lo importante es lo que la gente quiere creer, y la gente tiene necesidad de creer, así como también de soñar.

Nadie puede decir con seguridad lo que es cierto y lo que no lo es. Lo que en realidad existe y lo que no. Por

Y sin embargo al padre Tomasino le debo uno de mis momentos más espléndidos, efímero momento en que creí en la bondad del hombre, que es un perverso animal.

IT'S ALL IN YOUR MIND If you have ever watched other

The older I get, the better I was.

One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.