Quotes About Perception

Awareness is the key to self-defense.

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The first component of self-defense, "understanding violence

We're harsh judges on the bad behavior of others, but lawyers for our own.

An immediate threat consists of what is actually happening not what you're afraid might occur.

How many times in your life have you been told that something is one way, while you're staring at something entirely different? If you're like most people, when you mention that something is amiss, you get slapped down, either verbally, emotionally, or physically, or told that you're nuts or stupid.

Entirely too many people mistake confidence for competence.

Radar, then, is the first step in making people decide that it's not worth it to mess with you.

But then again, what do I know. I project. Then I judge.

If you have a handlebar mustache, that is pretty much all you are. You are a delivery system for a handlebar mustache.

I don't know if I am romanticizing, mythologizing, or being nostalgic. I assume all three. That seems to be how the brain breaks things down after a certain age. I

was seated at the front of coach in an aisle seat, directly behind the first-class dividing wall and the flight attendant service area. It's my favorite seat on a plane. I like watching people get on the plane so I can judge them. I like judging. I didn't see any real problems among the passengers who awkwardly clumped onto the plane, but I definitely felt like I was in a better place than some of them, which helped take the edge off my mood. Judging works.

Some people don't even realize they're bitter. If you don't know whether you are or not, here's a quick quiz you can give yourself. If you ever wake up in the morning and the first thing you say is "Oh, fuck, not again," you might be a little bitter.

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

who came to greet them in the mistaken belief that they were merchants.

and in British culture they saw nothing they wished to emulate.

and they also knew that they were undefended.3

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

What I'm saying is that we all hold, in our minds, the ability to create images that would break us in half.

Family, friends, even strangers constantly tell us what a happy, cheerful child we have. The reality is that she is a very well-rested child.

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

Traditionally, artists suffered for their art, now it's the audience.

Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.