Quotes About Perception

Painting is a strange business.

You want women to think of you in a sexy manner. It's all part of the business. It drives ticket sales. It's all a part of it.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

It's the behaviour of your company and its people that form your reputation, and your reputation is your brand

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'

The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.

The customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.

For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.

The trouble with not being into social networking is that people think you're anti-social when you're only anti-networking.

What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

If your business is not a brand, it's a commodity.

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

It's dangerous business, thinking you can make people over.

If you stay half-alert, you can pick the spectacular performers right from your place of business or out of the neighborhood shopping mall, and long before Wall Street discovers them.

You might be a redneck if the receptionist checks the rat traps at your place of business.

All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?