Quotes About Perception

How can I not know today your face tomorrow, the face that is there already or is being forged beneath the face you show me or beneath the mask you are wearing, and which you will only show me when I am least expecting it?

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Es lo malo que tiene cuanto nos sucede y no es registrado, o aún peor, ni siquiera sabido ni visto ni oído, porque luego no hay forma de recuperarlo.

No he querido saber, pero he sabido […]

Uno olvida mucho más lo que sale de su boca que lo que entra por sus oídos

De waarheid is nooit glashelder, blijft altijd een warnet. Zelfs als de draden ontrafelt zijn

People believe what they want to believe, and that's why it's only logical-and so easy-that everything should have its time to be believed

cada vez hay más zona de sombra. Aunque también haya más iluminada, siempre son más las sombras.

expresado se instala en el aire y es difícil hacerlo retroceder.

Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something, and knowing what's going on, our ears don't have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they can't hide from what they sense they're about to hear.

A fotografia quieta vai suplantando a cara real, com os seus gestos e o seu movimento, as feições congelam e passam a existir apenas as do instantâneo, que de tanto olhado substitui a pessoa e a apaga ou a desterra ou expulsa, por isso custa tanto recordar verdadeiramente os mortos que se afastam de nós.

uno quiere las cosas y a las personas según lo que tiene o no tiene

pánico viaja con facilidad en la ficción, o en lo que uno vive como tal.

el pánico viaja con facilidad en la ficción, o en lo que uno vive como tal.

Eso pasa a diario, Miguel, continuamente. La gente empieza viendo una cosa y acaba viendo la contraria. Empieza amando y acaba odiando, o sintiendo indiferencia y después adorando. Nunca logramos estar seguros de qué va a sernos vital ni de a quién vamos a dar importancia. Nuestras convicciones son pasajeras y endebles, hasta las que consideramos más fuertes. También nuestros sentimientos. No deberíamos fiarnos.

The phones are smarter but we are dumber.

But even if such a prediction were true, our inability to distinguish between a virtual reality simulation and the real world will have less to do with the increasing fidelity of simulation than the decreasing perceptual abilities of us humans.

It's hard to hear someone else when we are feeling unheard, even if the reason we feel unheard is that we have chosen not to share.

YOUR LEAKY FACE Who can see your face? Everyone. Who can't see your face? You.

strong emotions can seem as if they are part of the environment rather than part of us. It's not that I was angry, we think, it's that the situation was tense. But situations are not

Emotional math is really a subset of a larger dynamic. When something goes wrong and I am part of it, I will tend to attribute my actions to the situation; you will tend to attribute my actions to my character.

Ninety-three percent of American motorists believe they are better-than-average drivers. In a 2007 BusinessWeek poll, 90 percent of the managers surveyed believed their performance in the workplace to be in the top 10 percent.4

The question of who is offering us feedback doesn't seem like it should matter. Regardless of the source, the advice is either wise or foolish, the ideas worthwhile or worthless. But it does matter. We are often more triggered by the person giving us feedback than by the feedback itself. In fact, relationship triggers may be the most common derailers of feedback conversations.

The big three blind spots are tone of voice, facial expressions, and body language. The listener is very aware of these, the talker is not.