Quotes About Perception

Verla says that no one thinks of himself as a villain. Even the nastiest person thinks that he is in the right.

We talked about each story for a while, and then Verla talked about heroes and villains. 'Nobody is all good or all bad,' she told us. 'The world is painted in shades of gray.

What is believed in one man's time, is despised in another man's day. To be sure, there will even be revulsion in some future years at things you hardly notice, that are happening in what is known to you as the present.

You're daft,' she said. 'Doan matter what you think of me,' he said generously. 'I'll never think less of you.

Every head is the head of an artist, because it can see and hold beauty if it's only once in its life.

Do you see?" "Sort of," she said, and she frowned hard to make her head work better.

If only faces could talk....

in the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They

in the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don't care about them or don't like them.

very few people are able to organize and direct followers, which is a far more subtle and multifaceted skill. Leadership is really a form of temporary authority that others grant you, and they only follow you if they find you consistently credible. It's all about perception—and if teammates find you the least bit inconsistent, moody, unpredictable, indecisive, or emotionally unreliable, then they balk and the whole team is destabilized.

about one's life; memories are unreliable—they smudge, and fade, like disappearing footprints in the sand. We're too busy standing in the middle of it all to remember everything perfectly

Art is a way of knowing what it is we actually believe.

Art is a little subversive, very subversive; it gets underneath the surface and reveals what is there; it is a Geiger counter for truth.

Estas fluctuaciones mentales se caracterizan por el placer y el dolor, y así parece que la conciencia experimente placer y dolor, cuando en realidad el placer y el dolor son propiedades de la mente y no de la conciencia.

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.

The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there

There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language.

The giant Grof was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there. -Cyrin

It's so hard to think in winter. The world seems confined in the space of your heart; you can't see beyond yourself.

When people visit my farm they often envision their dog, finally off-leash in acres of safely fenced countryside, running like Lassie in a television show, leaping over fallen tree trunks, shiny-eyed with joy at the change to run free in the country. While they're imagining that heartwarming scene, their dog is most likely gobbling up sheep poop as fast as he can. Dog aren't people, and if they have their own image of heaven, it most likely involves poop.

That the mental experiences of dogs aren't as complex as ours is no reason to dismiss those experiences altogether.

Take a good look at your fabric and intuit what it is saying to you.

I can't defend this position, but I think I take photographs because there are things that nobody would see unless I photographed them.

Few people have the imagination for reality.