Quotes About Perception

Key is not to do things that cause you to be labeled as "dangerous.

If you create the impression that you believe "there is no good here," the organizational immune system will certainly kick in.

The danger comes when people think you have what political columnist George Will once described as "a learning curve as flat as Kansas.

you attract much more attention and a higher level of scrutiny than before.

To a person with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

The media I've had a lot to do with is lazy. We fed them and they ate it every day.

Books were another form of fog, dipping down to infiltrate and insidiously undermine the authoritative, official version, showing it up for the sham it was. He knew the stories were all made up, the characters puppets, the outcome predetermined, so why did they seem more real than reality? And why was no one else shocked by this gleeful scandal?

But Cupidity comes to visit when a woman receives romance and immediately deduces that it must be love.

In an Englishwoman her abruptness would have been viewed as bad manners, but it was normal to afford Americans somewhat greater license.

In an Englishwoman her abruptness would have been viewed as bad manners, but it was normal to afford Americans somewhat greater license. They talked, ate, dressed differently, were even different in bed so Urquhart had been told, although he had no firsthand experience.

The tires catch, the truck moves off, and for an instant there is a hole of quiet, a pocket of air without any noise, before the call of radios and televisions and bees and wind rushes in to fill my ears.

There's something about her that reminds me of Ellen, but then I realize that it's Ellen who's reminded me of Annabelle. Ellen is dim in comparison.

This is one of the principal reasons people seek out spiritual teachers. They figure there is more to most things than meets the eye.

Don Juan in Carlos Castaneda's A Separate Peace: "The difference between a warrior and an ordinary man is that a warrior sees everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man sees everything as either a blessing or a curse.

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. Aldous Huxley

U.S. consumers report higher dissatisfaction with their health care system than do consumers in other developed nations.

The more competitors perceive the prospect of dogged, bitter retaliation to the point of severely hurting everyone's profits, the less likely they are of initiating the chain of events in the first place. This is analogous to the situation in which the robber says, "stick 'em up, I want your money," and the deranged-looking victim says "If you take it, I will explode this bomb and kill us both!

From my examination of many declining industries, the firms that seem to be the most objective about managing the decline process are those that also participate in the substitute industry. They have a clearer perception concerning the prospects of the substitute product and the threat of decline.

I am quite happy for people to disagree with me on a book. If I say it is a 5 star read and you don't, you just failed to read it right. ;-)

What color am I, Thomas?" "About two shades darker than caramel," answered Thomas. "Damn, Thomas. I'm black. We don't watch golf. We watch football, basketball and dominoes." "I can see you at nighttime, Washington, so you're not black." "Do you see caramel as an option when you fill out the U.S. Census, Thomas?" "No, I don't. But there is a place that states other. Check that one next time.

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.

Those who still think that listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

Obama had always to field demands from some blacks to be blacker, and the wish of many whites to whitewash the story of American race and politics.