Quotes About Perception

Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact

Most of the pain we feel is nothing more than a story that needs telling.

I'm definitely a crier. I get really emotional if someone's being rude or says something mean about me.

Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away.

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.

In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.

This is important. Money on its most basic level is a hard fact - you either have it or you don't. But on it's emotional level it is purely a fiction. It becomes what you let it become.

All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder.

The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.

She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony.

Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction.

What we're seeking to do is internalize perception. Perception is very much involved with the senses and the mental processes and the emotional processes.

I'm highly emotional, so I'm highly aware of humiliation.

Okay, that so did me in. Mr. Rock being all emotional? Expressing his feelings?" p. 12

I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality.

People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down.

My standup persona is like I'll heighten things, but I'm observing the world as it is in sort of a heightened emotional state.

A woman isn't very powerful without her intuition.

Boys don't cry—or at least that's what everybody's supposed to believe.

You might, without my crediting it, fall deeply in love and forever, with some warped hunchback whelped in the gutter. I should equally stop you from taking him.

With so much unknown in this life, how little it takes for a face, a grove of trees, an outcropping of stone to become familiar.

Health is relative. There is no such thing as an absolute state of health or sickness. Everyone's physical, mental, and emotional condition is a combination of both.

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.