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Quotes About Perception

Some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you're a woman, you can't, because there is no unmarked woman.
~ Deborah Tannen
I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.
~ Unknown
If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.
~ Jessamyn West
I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill
~ Patty Duke
The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.
~ Andrew Loog Oldham
The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.
~ Hans Haacke
In our business, except in media buying, there are few economies of scale. Client perception of creative agencies is that the bigger they are, the worse they are.
~ Martin Sorrell
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
~ D. H. Lawrence
There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.
~ Jerry Della Femina
You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.
~ Elliott Erwitt
Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It's their business, isn't it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking of is being like a prostitute.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.
~ Alexander Wang
If y'all see me in the news, and I make the news for something that I ain't got no business making it for, don't bash me. Say it was a young guy living.
~ Clinton Portis
Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.
~ William Bernbach
Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
~ Fernando Pessoa
You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself.
~ Elle Macpherson
Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.
~ Ralph Ellison
Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.
~ Todd Solondz
People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.
~ Aaron Patzer
I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business.
~ Sheryl Crow
You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.
~ Thomas J. Watson
If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.
~ Joshua Reynolds
Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed by the time you've finished counting.
~ Stephen King
As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.
~ Rachel Zoe