Quotes About Perception

The problem that is being addressed in this therapy is that the ego is mistaken for the self, when it is not

you'll start to see that how you think about yourself, others, and objects, and the world in general, will start to shift to fit with your new patterns of expression.

If you are actively believing in the reality of what you are seeing, you are caught in your ego.

some anonymous guy in a bar at a conference, then the newspapers start asking questions. Pretty soon I'll bet it's going to be on Twitter and then there'll be an Internet meme. It doesn't have to exist in reality as long as people give it a kind of reality by talking and writing and arguing about it.

He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give.

I've realized that a lot of life is not what you say,see,it's what you don't say.People have to make up their own minds then.It's like a game, and only we know the rules.

Destiny Wallace was just fourteen years old but she looked at least nineteen or twenty - and that was in her school uniform. Annie couldn't help but wonder if evolution was to blame, because most of the girls in this particular group all looked like clones of each other. Well, or of Kim Kardashian or another famous person, famous for no other reason that that were famous for basically doing fuck-all constructive.

beauty could be a scourge, and to remember that looks faded eventually, but the beauty inside her was for ever. She had liked hearing that. It had the ring of truth to it.

a woman who had the face of an angel and the personality of a Doberman pinscher,

old Irish adage, people only know what you tell them.

If kids don't take to a person, I always feel they have inside knowledge that we don't have. They suss people out much easier.

My old mum always said, if brains was gunpowder he couldn't blow his fucking eyebrows off.

Everyone knew women were far more ruthless than men. Men got mad and women got even, there was a big difference.

you couldn't fight age, not really. If you had ten face-lifts and your whole body remodelled, you might look younger but you would still be fifty or sixty or whatever. Looking younger did not make you younger. Time passed, and the older you got the quicker it seemed to go.

Real life was not what everyone thought it was.

People only know what you tell them. Well, if you didn't tell them anything then you were safe.

His mother had always said, 'We are all guilty of something even if it is only laziness or ignorance.' He had never understood what she meant till now.

The half is greater than the whole Hesiod, ca. 700 BC

Show me the company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.

Aiden would have laughed. But obviously he had not found anything even

It had a woman's feel for colour and space. Men tended to put things in the first place available and just leave them there. Women thought a room out, knew how a room would look at its best. Women, Kate had observed, took time with details. Small details that could make a room like this.

her face on. Eileen never looked natural, had never looked

People only knew what you told them, only saw what you wanted them to see. Her mother had hammered that into her head since she was a child,

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.