Quotes About Perception

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it's the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it's a failure in communication.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Diets are essentially traning courses in how to feel fat and feel like a failure

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

Our biggest failure is our failure to see patterns.

An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.

Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.

If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

...all cynicism masks a failure to cope.

The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.

That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak first to themselves and then to an audience.

Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.

I was a failure in Boston...because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was too intelligent to be fashionable.

In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.

If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.

Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.

The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure

[Russians] want to bring us down to make them feel better about the failure of the Soviet Union. I don't mean bring us down as in collapse, but bring us down a notch in a big way.

I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only by what I believe.

Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.