Quotes About Perception

While I was explaining to my own doctor that I was planning to undertake some serious exercise, I happened to mention that I thought I had lost quite a bit of weight since my last physical. "You didn't lose it," he said. "It just slipped around to your rear where you can't see it.

the law is a blind woman and the judge usually an unloved old man.

He is like a traveler who looks left and right but doesn't think to look behind or above him. Men like that get eaten by cougars.

Since the affliction was so plainly psychosomatic, the worst thing she could do was to give it space for thought.

Ella glanced at him reproachfully, and explained herself. 'Talking to those Prostitutes,' said Ella. . . . Her violent stress upon the first syllable of this word implied a differentiation between a large class of almost venial Titutes, and another branch of the same class, designated as Pros, and beyond the pale.

We cannot solve mysteries - we can only enter into them; and then it is we who are solved or dissolved - transformed in such a way that we see the "problem" quite differently

The more we imbue the world with imagination, the more the world is ensouled - and the more soul it returns to us, singing with meaning.

The unconscious reflects back at us the face we show to it.

it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts.

We are so used to our own history, we do not see it as remarkable or out of the ordinary, whereas others might see it as horrendous. Further, we tend to minimize that which we feel shameful about.

Through the window, I saw the beautiful world outside: the sky, the sun, the cacti, the rocks, and the dirt. How I longed to return to it! I licked at the air, trying to smell the desert's delicious dusty scent, but could not. How was I able to see it without smelling it? Did humans control scents as well as the temperature and the waters? Is that what windows were for, to keep out scents? Why did they wish to put invisible barriers between themselves and the world?

What is with these guys? Where's the thrill in watching snakes eat? I certainly didn't thrill in watching humans eat.

We have tested and tasted too much, lover- Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder.

The sun rose and set in a land of dreams whether the clocks where right or wrong.

He will hardly remember that life happened to him.

I'm nostalgic. I miss childhood. I miss first grade. I miss thinking girls are gross. Do you know how much money I could save if I still thought girls were gross?

Once that positive or negative impression is set into place, every one of your actions is viewed through it.

the snapshot of yourself that you present to others must be compelling… or at least not negative.

A lot of people talk, but they really are not talking to or hearing each other. They're talking to what that person represents. They just talk and wait for their turn to speak while pretending to listen, not bothering to truly hone in and listen to the other person. In other words, it's all about you. As

By keeping an eye out for hints that people leave for the reactions they want, you can increase the likelihood that your conversations will be longer, more emotionally engaging, and lead to where you want them to go.

Human beings are not very imaginative nor creative, so we try to put all our experiences into existing templates and categories based on our previous experiences.

Your feelings and emotions have the ability to overpower you and completely color your thinking. But that's confusing feelings for facts. They are entirely separate things. Reality is in fact neutral.

Si no eres consciente de cómo puedes proyectar tus propias necesidades, miedos, suposiciones y prejuicios en los demás, tus observaciones y conclusiones sobre los demás no serán gran cosa. De hecho, es posible que simplemente hayas descubierto una forma indirecta de aprender sobre ti mismo y el equipaje cognitivo y emocional que tú dejas ver.

Curiosity is a highly undervalued skill because of the value it makes other people feel.