Quotes About Perception

The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.

In the four years I had spent in Southeast Asia, I had changed, and so had the people back home. And I could not communicate effectively about these differences in perception.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

Look, you're not French, let's face it . . . and who wants to be, anyway, in this day and age? Being French is way past cool.

WRITER Right, but no offense, you guys eat dogs for lunch and many of us in the West here find that disgusting, so . . . ACTOR I'm not Korean, you prick! I'm of Chinese descent but I was born in Idaho! I-da-ho. You got that? / My God . . .

see, we been doing things wrong for so long now that it all starts to feel okay after a while, you know, like this is how it oughta be.

MAN No doubt about that—I can't even call 'em "girls" without getting hit by a lawsuit, so … (Grins.) You're a librarian? WOMAN Yeah. Well, we don't really use that term anymore, but, ahh … MAN Sure, of course! It's probably, like, "printed-word specialist" or something now, I suppose … WOMAN Exactly.

JEANNIE It's not like she's … She's really fat, Tom! A fat sow and you know it. I can tell you're aware by the way you're acting, which is really the puzzling part … TOM I-like-her. End of story.

WOMAN Really? Handsome guy like you and that's all you're good for … to look at? MAN Pretty much. WOMAN Good to know. (Opens a pudding.) You want one? MAN Nah, I shouldn't … WOMAN Why? MAN Excellent question. Okay.

Listen, I speak from experience when I say . . . just because some man doesn't have one does not necessarily mean that he can't be one.

You can twist perception, reality won't budge

You can twist perception reality won"t budge you can raise objection I won2t be judge and jury

As the train rolled through the countryside, so lush and green, and into the sprawling suburbs of south London, I stared around at all the strangeness: the narrow little "terraced" houses all in rows of brick and chimneypots, the tiny back gardens with clotheslines and garden sheds, the little cars all on the wrong side of the road — it was all so delightfully foreign, and exotic. My first lesson that the rest of the world really was more different than I knew or imagined.

That's not hunting," I wrote, "that's just shooting.

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.

Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose.

We are all, as Huxley says someplace, Great Abbreviators, meaning that none of us has the wit to know the whole truth, the time to tell it if we believed we did, or an audience so gullible as to accept it.

We must keep in mind the story of the statistician who drowned while trying to wade across a river with an average depth of four feet.

There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.

With the invention of the clock, Eternity ceased to serve as the measure and focus of human events.

enchantment is the means through which we may gain access to sacredness. Entertainment is the means through which we distance ourselves from it.

the world we live in is very nearly incomprehensible to most of us. There is almost no fact, whether actual or imagined, that will surprise us for very long, since we have no comprehensive and consistent picture of the world that would make the fact appear as an unacceptable contradiction. We believe because there is no reason not to believe.

It has been demonstrated many times that a culture can survive misinformation and false opinion. It has not yet been demonstrated whether a culture can survive if it takes the measure of the world in twenty-two minutes. Or if the value of its news is determined by the number of laughs it provides.

We have devalued the singular human capacity to see things whole in all their psychic, emotional and moral dimensions, and we have replaced this with faith in the powers of technical calculation.