Quotes About Perception

The history of PR is... a history of a battle for what is reality and how people will see and understand reality.

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.

Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.

The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.

Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .

Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of art.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.

If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.

We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.