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Quotes About Perception

No doubt exists that all women are crazy it's only a question of degree.
~ W. C. Fields
Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one.
~ W. C. Fields
Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.
~ W. C. Fields
To tip the cognitive hurdle fast, tipping point leaders such as Bratton zoom in on the act of disproportionate influence: making people see and experience harsh reality firsthand.
~ W. Chan Kim
Experiences that don't involve touching, seeing, or feeling actual results, such as being presented with an abstract sheet of numbers, are shown to be non-impactful and easily forgotten.
~ W. Chan Kim
A company should never outsource its eyes. There is simply no substitute for seeing for yourself. Great artists don't paint from other people's descriptions or even from photographs; they like to see the subject for themselves. The same is true for great strategists.
~ W. Chan Kim
But you must have knowledge and know-how to interpret the meaning of what you observe
~ W. Clement Stone
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
~ W. Eugene Smith
It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.
~ W. H. Auden
See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.
~ W. H. Auden
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
~ W. H. Auden
To us he is no more a personNow but a whole climate of opinion.
~ W. H. Auden
False enchantment can last a lifetime.
~ W. H. Auden
Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.
~ W. H. Auden
To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.
~ W. H. Auden
The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
~ W. H. Auden
Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.
~ W. H. Auden
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
~ W. H. Auden
Poetry is the only art people haven't yet learnt to consume like soup.
~ W. H. Auden
Lo único sensato por parte de un crítico es permanecer en silencio frente a las obras que considera francamente malas, mientras defiende vigorosamente las que cree buenas, sobre todo si estas son ignoradas o menospreciadas por el público.
~ W. H. Auden
Teetotalers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
~ W. H. Davies
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
~ W. H. Davies
Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches.
~ Unknown
To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.
~ Unknown