Quotes About Perception

When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently.

Muslims want the western countries to apologize. Why? because this gives them a sense of empowerment. It makes them feel good about themselves, it stokes their ego.

People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.

I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.

I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

All the good things that are happening in America don't get reported on a lot.

I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.

Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.

There's no such thing as good voices. Because there's no such thing as bad voices. There are only good actors and bad actors.

To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking.

You know, you find that these stories ... will turn one of us into the good guy and one of us into the bad guy. If you look at it closely or even not that closely ... it's ridiculous.

Now it looks like I'll be known as the musical comedy guy. Which is good news for me. Or I'll be known as the New Zealand idiot.

I never go for the stereotypically good-looking guy. Maybe it's unfair, but if I see a good-looking guy, inside I'm like, 'What does he have to offer?'

Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.

One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.

Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.

Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves