Quotes About Perception

You narrow hope when you define it.

I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality.

In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them.

It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

I don't want to say never, but I hope I don't become that 'take me seriously now' guy.

What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?

Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.

When I went in, my editor said, 'I hope you don't think you're a writer.' And I said, 'I hope you don't think I'm a journalist.' And, uh, turned out we were both right.

Generally, I like to appear smart. I don't admit being stupid when there's any hope I'm not.

I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.

We all hope that the police and prosecutors are objective. That's their job, but sometimes it's not true.

In the comics, Supergirl is quite, um, buxom...so I hope people won't come to the film expecting that.

But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?

To hope is to see with the eye of the heart.

A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.

Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.

Sometimes, when people look at me, I can see the pity in their eyes. All I want is hope, but neither of us can give it to each other.

I wonder what became of you, your JohnnyRotten skin, no Emerald City eyes.You'd have been a beauty if you let inferiority steam your glasses with its candor, sans laughter.

Dreams, Ours mysterious Dreams, they can be Reality

Where others saw gloom, I saw light or lit a candle.

How blindly the world reads a man's mien! That I wear a smile does not mean I am in my comfort zone. I am only telling my challenges that I can't be distracted from the beautiful ending of my story.

It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?

He who makes fun of a short and fat man's weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.

All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity.