Quotes About Perception

I cleaned up my act, and I made this rap thing work for me. I thought people would respect me for that. But instead, it's, 'Oh, he's sold all these records, and now he thinks he's all that.'

Movies are dreams! And they work on you subliminally.

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

I've never seen the allure of being famous, because I know what that's like. It's part of work.

A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression.

I can't be told life is beautiful through a normal positive thinking book or a Hallmark movie that language doesn't work for me.

One thing about costume design - and I think design in general - but especially costume design, is people have a misconception that it's very glamorous work.

They say never trust a skinny chef, but the fact is, to stay healthy when you're a chef means you have to work twice as hard.

Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.

Everyone finds my work super sad. I never do. I always find it uplifting in a weird way.

It's so often that I read for the bouncy, sunny girl men fall in love with who will solve all the romantic problems in the narrative. I don't choose to work that way.

My work should be seen as poetry.

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

Life turns beautiful for us when we see beautiful things around us even thou they are ugly, it's not in what's there but how we look at it that makes a difference.

UNIVERSAL LESSON: We are not responsible for what our eyes are seeing. We are responsible for how we perceive what we are seeing.

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results.

Here are three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

There are miracles everyday and only the eyes with gratitude can see them, and it also takes a heart with faith to earn them.

An old man who marries a young wife grows younger but she grows older.

No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.

You couldn't see it and I got tired of trying to show you...

One guy can make you hate all the guys, but one man can teach you that not all the guys are not same.

It's often those we live with and love, the ones we care about the most, that elude us.