Quotes About Perception

And is it better to know? he asked me. I can't tell you. But once you know, it's impossible to go back.

I did not see the wolf when he came. I did not hear him. There was only this: A little before dawn I became aware of a hush, and I realized that the only breathing to be heard in the room was my own.

Though children are capable of great cruelty. Only we do not like to think it of them.

The doctor knew his wife was beautiful, but they had been married too long for it to make any difference to him.

Too bad he wasn't as nice as his truck.

Nancy Rue has once more proven that Christianity doesn't necessary arrive in a double-breasted suit or wearing pearls. Sometimes it roars in on a Harley, packing more punch than a three-part sermon.

A whole lot of good my IQ came when it came to judging his character.

Good decisions can turn into disasters when communicated poorly.

Never mind your intentions. Communication is about what others hear with your words.

You can get into trouble really fast because it's often not what you say or mean, it's what they hear and understand. And be careful not to take offense when they mean no offense.

I gazed at him. He was old enough to know that few things were fair. Most five-year-olds had already discovered it.

The house was dark. Upstairs, behind the black open window with the pale curtain flapping in the spartan air, slept Arthur Morrison, trainer of the forty-three racehorses in the stables below. Morrison habitually slept lightly. His ears were sharper than half a dozen guard dogs', his stable-hands said.

It's difficult to say just where a marriage goes wrong, because the accepted reason often isn't the real one.

unexpected regret. Watched him until the consciousness went out of his eyes, and they were simply open but seeing nothing.

How not to sound like a upper class man. It had been mostly a matter, I'd found, of speaking not far back in the throat but up behind the teeth, a reversal of the way I'd just painstakingly learned to speak French like a Frenchman

They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.

I guess that makes me as white as you now, boy. I got your spit inside me.

Was mir vor allen Dingen unbestreitbar vorkommt, ist die Tatsache, das ein solches Ausbleiben des Klassengefühls eine bürgerliche Kindheit kennzeichnet. Die Herrschenden merken nicht, dass ihre Welt nur einer partikularen, situierten Wahrheit entspricht (so wie ein Weißer sich nicht seines Weißseins und ein Heterosexueller sich nicht seiner Heterosexualität bewusst ist).

Links zu sein, sagt Gilles Deleuze in seinem Abécédaire, das heiße, 'eine Horizontwahrnehmung' zu haben (die Welt als ganze zu sehen, die Probleme der Dritten Welt wichtiger zu finden als die des eigenen Viertels). Nicht links zu sein hingegen bedeute, die Wahrnehmung auf das eigene Land, auf die eigene Straße zu verengen.

Interesse für Kunst oder Literatur hat stets, ob bewusst oder unbewusst, auch damit zu tun, dass man das Selbst aufwertet, indem man sich von jenen abgrenzt, die keinen Zugang zu solchen Dingen haben; es handelt sich um eine Distinktion, einen Unterschied im Sinne einer Kluft, die konstitutiv ist für das Selbst und die Art, wie man sich selbst sieht, und zwar immer im Vergleich zu den anderen - den bildungsfernen oder unteren Schichten etwa.

As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.

The progressive media scarcely covered the Haitian protest. Somehow the idea of Haitian black people calling out the Clintons as aid money thieves did not appeal to the grand pooh-bahs at CBS News, the New York Times, and NPR.

My goal was to strip away the race card from the Democrats—a card they had been successfully playing against Republicans for a generation.

What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?