Quotes About Perception

Because when it comes to memories, what counts is not accuracy, but the feelings they call up.

Of course, it comes to me, finally, that I'm not really dreaming. That I am actually moving through this tunnel, although not of my own power. Without

Don't be a little fool,' he said curtly. 'It really is time you started to enjoy being a woman, and if there weren't enjoyment in it the human race would have come to an end a long time ago.' 'As if men ever cared one way or the other,' she rejoined. 'All most of you care about are sex symbols to gawk at, and maternal types to see after your comforts. I don't know into what category I fit, unless it's paramour!

The cleverest women hide it and create an aura of wit and charm instead. Those who can't wait a moment to prove how much smarter than men they are--Dios, what bores! A man might as well invite a bearded professor to lunch than a female with all her mental pencils sharpened; instead of being an amusing companion she sits for an examination, gobbling food and words and waving her hands about like a merchant in a bazaar. It is probably the Spaniard in me that dislikes the type!

A saint likes to be told what he is, but a sinner is a bit touchy.

As you say, I can feel it and I can smell it, but for me it's still a black rose.

It's incredible," she sighed. My eyebrows brushed Isabelle's eyebrows. "It's incredible the way I'm seeing you

What moment is there in life that is not already a memory?

Trust not too much to appearances.

What if Amyntas is dark? Violets are dark, too, and hyacinths.

Why didn't you tell us the first day?" And Jolly goes, "Well, nobody told me—I didn't know—" She goes, "Nobody told me. You know?" And when she says this it's like a flat tire got fixed in my head and I suddenly see the sign of her life: "Nobody told me." I look in my brain and I make a brief list of who's sposed to tell you things. It's your folks and your teachers and your girlfriends and your coach if you have a sport.

I tell him he's a good boy. He says he knows it. "Good boy sure," he says. I want to dig down way far into his brain and find out some of his details. How does he know? What makes him so convinced?

Seems that folks who try to hide it the most end up judging the most. Guess they figure if they judge other people's garbage it makes their own not quite so dirty.

North. He believes they saw him as

People believe what they want to believe. They also believe what people in leadership tell them.

ability to read her heart—to see beyond the surface to what was boiling just underneath.

I have come to believe that most people, seeing life from their own perspective, think they are doing the very best thing they can. Others, including myself, may think they have the ability to see things more clearly, and maybe we can, but a person can only act from their own perceptions. I find myself more able to find understanding and acceptance

Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know." -Irene Pepperburg

Clearly animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know." Irene Pepperberg

We were wrong about why these animals behave as they do, in part, I think, because most of us do not grant animals even the simplest form of thought, or recognize that they do things intentionally.

Clearly, animals know more than we think and think a great deal more than we know.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

A mature person is one who, having attained his majority, is able to make choices and decisions based on accurate perceptions about himself, others, and the context in which he finds himself; who acknowledges these choices and decisions as being his; and who accepts responsibility for their outcomes.

Men don't know what they like. They rely on us to tell them.