Quotes About Perception

I think that anytime you're doing casting and you're casting something that has a lot of existing fans you're going to get a lot of opinions about whether it matches fans vision.

I sometimes forget that my vision of the world is not remotely anyone else's.

In all our perceptions, from vision to hearing, to the pictures we build of people's character, our unconscious mind starts from whatever objective data is available to us - usually spotty - and helps to shape and construct the more complete picture we consciously perceive.

People have a limited vision. While abroad actors such as Halle Berry have done many positive roles, we still associate short hair with negative characters.

Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.

It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

In Sweden, if a player has the ball, and you're running across the line of vision, you would never call for the ball. In the United States, if you're open, you're screaming.

When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.

It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

I think when you marry up like I did and Mitt Romney did, your wife says a lot about who you are and I think she humanizes him and brings a different vision of who Mitt Romney is.

I don't think there is ever objective biography. Our vision of our subject is always shaped by who we are. So I do, of course, think the biographer's view is always something to keep in mind.

People always say to me, 'You have such a clearly defined sense of style,' and when I hear it, I get crazed, because what I hear - and I know they mean it as a compliment - is that I have such a narrow vision that I can't get out of it.

The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.

How could you look at CM Punk and not think that he has the 'it' factor? I don't think I'm any great visionary or genius because I saw something in CM Punk; I think everyone else is a stupid schmuck for not seeing it in CM Punk.

I was a glamorous actress in Mumbai. I had done Sanjay Gupta's 'Musafir.' I wanted to know how Buddhada thought of me in the role of Supriya, Rahul Bose's unhappy wife in 'Kaalpurush.' It needs a visionary film-maker to see an actor in a role that seems very removed from her real personality or on-screen image.

I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts.

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.

once told Wendell that I'm a terrible decision maker, that often what I think I want doesn't turn out the way I'd imagined.

Flannery O'Connor quote: "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

No matter how open we as a society are about formerly private matters, the stigma around our emotional struggles remains formidable.

Like me, the women I met with at the bar were embarrassed by the way they'd dismissed men in the past, evaluating every guy as either too-something or not-something-enough. These guys didn't fit our image of the person we thought we'd end up with, leaving us to end up with nobody