Quotes About Perception

right hemisphere is responsible for our ability to comprehend metaphors

In general the left hemisphere participates in the analysis of information," says a neuroscience primer. "In contrast, the right hemisphere is specialized for synthesis; it is particularly good at putting isolated elements together to perceive things as a whole.

listen without listening for anything.

He who laughs last doesn't get it." —HELEN GIANGREGORIO

They think they know a lot about me, because I know a lot about them.

power leads individuals to anchor too heavily on their own vantage point, insufficiently adjusting to others' perspective.

Some work in posh offices with glorious views, others in dreary cubicles with Dilbert cartoons and a free calendar.

Power can move you off the proper position on the dial and scramble the signals you receive, distorting clear messages and obscuring more subtle ones.

We are all expressions of our own minds, projected onto the world.

It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.

We search for the ordinary when we are surrounded by the extraordinary.

My mom insists that my friendships online aren't real. She says that until you meet someone in person, you don't really know them. I don't agree

You want to know Ã¢â'¬Â¦ things. You want to know everything. But you can understand so little.

I'm the hero of my own story, but others tell their stories as well.

The true knowledge is not in the things, which are few, but in finding the connection between the things.

My porch feels as safe as a chocolate doughnut on an ant hill.

La gente debería saber que al comienzo el enemigo tenía la forma de objetos cotidianos: coches, edificios, teléfonos. Luego, cuando empezaron a diseñarse a sí mismos, los robots resultaban familiares pero al mismo tiempo deformes, como personas y animales de otro universo creados por otro dios.

Maps are just a lie we tell ourselves to feel safe.

All those postage-stamp front yards we used to have were reminders that we like clear spaces to see predators coming.

The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.

It's dangerous to be people-blind.

Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own reality.

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

There are so many movies like this, where you thought you were smarter than the screen but the director was smarter than you, of course he's the one, of course it was a dream, of course she's dead, of course, it's hidden right there, of course it's the truth and you in your seat have failed to notice in the dark.