Quotes About Perception

The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

Even a stopped clock is right two times a day.

Dorothy Parker once said: I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid." Upon delivering this Dot bon mot, with much waving of sparkly rings and jingly bracelets, Constance Langtry comments that she'd add a fourth: "Deft tongue. And I don't mean a good talker.

Show me a woman without guilt and I'll show you a man

El cuerpo acusa la agresión antes que el cerebro, que se niega a ver lo que no consigue comprender.

innuendos—and sometimes they weren't even

it is safer to wander without a guide through an unmapped country than to trust completely a map traced by men who came only as tourists and often with biased judgement.

One has to consider what effect it would have on one to have to accept the fact that God was not the friendly guardian of kindergarten!

A degree from UC Berkeley will never change the fact that I cannot understand my grandfather when he asks for more coffee." —Esther G. Belin (Navajo) from In the Cycle of the Whirl. L

A — Aware. Am I in Judger?

C — Curiosity. What's happening here? What are the facts?

when you walk into the classroom, your own mindset makes all the difference in the world. It affects how you connect or don't connect with each child, and in turn how they connect with you.

Authentic listening is not easy. We hear the words, but rarely do we really slow down to listen and to squint with our ears, to hear the emotions, fears, and underlying concerns. Kevin Cashman

It seems like people go into Judger whenever there's any kind of conflict,

It's horrifying for kids to be able to see and feel more than the people who are caring for them," his social worker explains. "They can't accept the lies. It makes them feel crazy because they literally have to invalidate their own perceptions.

Children who are blamed for their own abuse also have great difficulty trusting their perceptions. "When adults say 'It didn't happen,' or 'You wanted it'—those kinds of comments really eat away at a kid's sense of reality," says psychologist David Frankel. "Cutting grounds you; the pain is real. In that light, self-mutilation can be an effort to avoid a state of disorganization where you don't know what reality is.

We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.

Eugene Peterson claims that "to eyes that can see, every bush is a burning bush:' Poems, when they are doing what they do best, offer us a glimpse of that fire.

What is a man, anyway? Everything I see around me in popular culture tells me a man is he who screws and kills. But everything I see around me in life tells me a man is he who makes money.

But she continued to wonder what the fish tasted like, so brilliant and vivid pink. Would it taste pink?

It does seem true that a young woman may sometimes behave in a way that can be called titillating, and that men take such behavior as being directed entirely at them. [...] I've often seen blushing young men with shining eyes behave in the same way, but no one says of them that they want to be raped. If, after taking a few steps forward, they then decide to retreat, no one accuses them of being cunt teasers. In fact, the disappointed woman probably thinks it's all her fault.

I don't know if you have the words I need. I know you didn't need the ones I had.