Quotes About Perception

Your friend has quite the temper." "Don't I know it.

The moment I saw the Count on TV…it was as if the room filled with color and I was able to understand things for the very first time.

by the time you open your eyes, the world might have already changed.

aphorism 129: I would have every thought stoop and touch the Earth but that I already know the impossibility of the effort. A thought seems to have a life of its own and would rather leave itself open to flattering interpretations.

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

Don't believe everything you read in the newspapers Ã¢â'¬Â¦ even if you write it yourself.

Your big word isn't the content of your life, it is the context of your life.

Public speaking creates a mirror in which you see in the audience an amplified version of what is going on inside of you.

If all knowledge is self knowledge, you don't know shit.

We only reveal what we want other people to know, right? It's like we create fictional characters for the public. And inside we're somebody totally different.

Some people watch the world with their ears.

He wondered how his nana always found beautiful where he never even thought to look.

Truth is not a fixed thing. It evolves and morphs and inverts. What is true today may not be true tomorrow.

The fact that everyone's days were numbered, and it didn't matter if you were in premier class or worked in housekeeping. Those were only costumes people wore. And once you stripped them away you saw the truth. This giant ocean and this dark pressing sky. We only have a few minutes, but the unexplainable world is constant and forever marching forward.

And a thought occurs to him: Maybe you can't really know anyone just by looking at their face.

Qué raro es que a veces deseas algo, como ver la nieve, y al día siguiente deseas que desparezca, ¿verdad?

You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.

He'd admired it in the window of a shop on the Strand when he'd met her for dinner one evening, never expecting her to surprise him with it a couple of days later. Now he could see that perhaps she'd bought it out of guilt, but at the time, he just felt it showed how much she'd loved him. He'd been too wrapped up in their future to see it as just a present. And today, perhaps appropriately, it had stopped. Still, at least he was making good time—for

mainly by increasing tolerance for perceived effort and by reducing the amount of effort that is perceived at any given intensity of exercise.

In reality, the scenario I've just described could never happen. Perceived effort is essentially the body's resistance to the mind's will. The fitter an athlete becomes, the less resistance the body puts up. Therefore increased physical capacity is always felt.

people often choose to expect the worst of an upcoming experience in hopes of creating a more favorable contrast between their expectations and reality.

Perceived effort actually has two layers. The first layer is how the athlete feels. The second layer is how the athlete feels about how she feels. The first layer is strictly physiological, whereas the second is emotional, or affective.

You're a lot of horrible things - untehical, sociopathic, evil even - but you're no idiot.

How do we define "normal?" Quite literally it comes from the Latin norma meaning "carpenter's square." Straight. And "abnormal?" That's from the Greek anomalos, and the Latin abnormis meaning "monstrosity.