Quotes About Perception

a lie, once uttered, changes reality just as surely as if it were a great truth.

The value is always in the eye of the beholder. What is worthless to one person may be very important to someone else.

I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable

Who the hell is afraid of a fridge but ties himself to a puma?

For a man the whole world is his love. For a woman love is her whole world.

What's the big-deal about "Rock" music, anyway? What does it have over, say, Polka music? Polka music has integrity - it's music made by down-to-earth, regular human beings, whereas "Rock" music is made by morons for the benefit of idiots!

He was impressed with the California governor's political skills, but for years viewed Reagan warily. "We thought he was a nut," Baker said later. "I didn't necessarily think that," he added, "but that was the line on him. Everybody said that he was." Reagan's bellicose rhetoric

Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

What was it? What could it-- His last thought was surprise.

She's nice enough, but she's got the IQ of an artichoke.

And the point? This is the point. Paradise lives in our heads so it can be anywhere and with anyone.

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

Beneath every cynic there's a frustrated romantic.

I've always felt there are three sexes: men, women, and actors. And actors combine the worst qualities of the other two.

Once you have a diagnosis, you must make several important decisions—not just regarding your treatment, although those choices are most important, but about your work, your finances, your family responsibilities, and the way in which a brain tumor will affect your perception of yourself and your relationships.

A brain tumor can radically change your self-identity. Even if your tumor is removed and you are doing well, you may continue to see yourself as someone who is very different from other people.

There is a difference between seeing the world and being in it, which is one point that alludes most people.

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. —Scientist Emerson M. Pugh

The brain doesn't feel pain.

The interest we have in problems is so intense that at some point we take our identity from those problems. Without them, it seems like we would not know who we are as a community. Many of the strongest advocates for change would lose their sense of identity if the change they desired ever occurred.

Reality' is a word with many meanings.

Once a computer was asked, "What is the truth?" It took a very long time before the reply came, "I will tell you a story…

To possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others: this I think captures our love of and our need for novels, for fictional accounts of the world that let us experience it beyond the limits of our own pair of eyes, to imagine it, provisionally, as it is seen and felt by someone else, however different that person may be.

Through fictions, we accommodate ourselves to a world that is not ours, much less ourselves. As psychoanalysts and child psychologists confirm, we cannot cope with reality without made-up stories