Quotes About Perception

A shark that can't bite is nothing but a mermaid.

Knowledge of self is acquired through a shattered mirror. But we can always close our eyes.

I couldn't shake the feeling that Guy was more complicated than a good-ole-boy mango grower and Schein had more secrets than Freud's Wolf Man.

Yogi Berra reportedly said, "It's not the heat, it's the humility.

Man is never so foolish as when he fools himself.

Women, I have long believed, are the more evolved of the species and have attained some higher level of being. Men act as if we just crawled from the swamp, our webbed feet dripping brackish water as we waddle ashore, seeking to mate with a female or, lacking that, a warm patch of mud.

I'm not saying she's dumb, but she thinks the Silicon Valley is the space between her tits.

the news is often accurate without being truthful.

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

George Carlin's voice: "Think of how stupid the average person is and realize half of them are stupider than that.

Our prejudices and self-interest shape the world into what we want it to be, or fear it is.

Your friend has an odd sense of color combinations." "The house belongs to an ex-cop," I said, as if that explained it.

Wetiko is elusive and mercurial, for whatever we say wetiko is, it isn't, in that it is always more, less, and other than what we are able to say it is in language.

Wetiko doesn't objectively exist, and yet, at the same time, it is not merely our projection or imagination. Instead of an either/or universe, where phenomena like wetiko are either real or unreal, there is an area in between in which it is both/and--both real and unreal at the same time.

All we have to do to see is open our eyes and look. As we teach what we learn, I am in essence talking to myself.

paradox? It is that we can be a child sitting on a window ledge knowing everything and we can be the universe knowing the child at the same time.

as Gaston Glock himself put it in an interview: "That I knew nothing was my advantage.

I don't get superheroes," she says, "if you could see through everything you'd see nothing at all.

pareidolia. They heard whispering voices in the radio pulses of Jupiter or Saturn.

Nothing recedes into the vanishing point of time's rear-view faster than the truth.

Pick up the world and turn it over, as Mama liked to say, and you won't find fair written anywhere on it.

How to tell a story? First find a point of view.

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.

The key to success is having the awareness to appreciate – in the words of the French novelist Anaïs Nin 'we see the world not as it is but as we are.' It's recognizing that we see events through our own mental filters and give our own meaning to those events – a meaning which may be very different to someone else's.