Quotes About Perception

When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know so little that is real.

Your business is never really good or bad 'out there.' Your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears.

The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.

Your reputation is none of your business.

With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.

The only way to know how customers see your business is to look at it through their eyes

You can never really justify wages in the entertainment business, but it is what it is.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves

Everyone knows the first rule of business is "Look good during confrontations." Or if it isn't, it should be.

You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.

All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.

But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is.

This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.

The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.

I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.

I wander around in corsets in my house all the time. I'm a lot girlier than the roles I play, but I don't believe there's anything wrong in this business for being typecast.

I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.

People have different interpretations of "urgent".