Quotes About Perception

[My father] was not a racist, unlike what the white racist media would say. He had a global outlook just like Barack [Obama] and Michelle [Obama].

Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.

When my father ran for the state Assembly, the headline said, 'Kean's Son to Run for Assembly.' When my grandfather first ran for Congress, it was 'Kean's son to run for Congress.'

My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding.

My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong.

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.

You're living in a delusion, based on your legendary father.

..my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understand me. The town he lived in and the town I lived in were not the same.

My father used to say that stupid people think. (I really don't agree with him!)

My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intelligence, he always thought that I was a little bit lazy.

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.

My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'.

Most people cant' deal with reality, but indulge heavily in fantasy and fear.

Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose.

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

The world doesn't change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.