Quotes About Perception

It's a shame about her, isn't it? But when I see you with her, the two of you seem to be having actual conversations. Like real people.

la Delfina se cayó al suelo cuando montaba sobre un asno, dijo riendo: Id a buscar a madame Noailles, ella os dirá que ordena la etiqueta cuando una reina de Francia no sabe mantener el equilibrio sobre un asno. María Antonieta, Reina de Francia

Señor, le presento a mi compañera de lecho y dígame si su interior no es tan hermoso como su exterior. Cristina de Suecia

Hay gente a quien su desnudez la viste -digo- , y hay gente que, al vestirse, se queda sola.

What they call witches - most of them are just regular people, nice people. The evil ones are those that hunt and hurt others, witch or no.

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

I wondered how television worked. I thought about how an interior decorator decided on colors and styles. I wondered, when babies tarted learning how to walk, if they didn't know that that couldn't walk.

Brand is how others see you, culture is how you see yourself.

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

One thing about the greenhouse effect that makes it so difficult for some of us to take seriously is that it's invisible.

We humans may think of ourselves as solid objects, all flesh and bone. But take a close look, and it's clear our bodies are composed largely of oxygen and hydrogen. We are essentially ephemeral – akin as much to wind water, and fire as to earth.

nerve cells within the olfactory bulb and hippocampus of a human brain are continuously regenerated. This means that when a whiff of something sparks a memory, be it a smoky campfire or a familiar perfume, the neurons that originally encoded those sensations may no longer be with you, and the memories may now be preserved by cells that never experienced them.

A composition that we do not understand or like appears to expand in time as we experience it, yet vanishes almost immediately from memory.

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.

I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.

The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In the moment, you have to pee, your arm itches, or what people are saying strikes you as melodramatic or sentimental, and it's hard not to smirk. You have a sense of what this type of situation should be like - for one thing, all-consuming - and this isn't it. But then you look back, and it was that; it did happen.

it struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel the lack of something than the thing itself.

And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.

It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on 'Top Chef.'

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

Everybody could see when something was troubling Christine--the writers kept asking, 'What's wrong with her?' But she never came to me directly to say she wasn't happy. That was not her way.

To achieve excellence, we must also consider and work with what is not apparent, with what cannot be seen. We must journey into the complex world of subtle energies.