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Quotes About Perception

Forse voi vorreste un Bortolo più ideale: non so che dire: fabbricatevelo. Quello era così.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
An inter/view is an exchange of gazes, persons both seeing and listening to each other.
~ Alessandro Portelli
Normal is all relative.
~ Alethea Kontis
Oh! I thought you were the man with the dress." "He could put one on for you," said Velius. "He's got the legs for it.
~ Alethea Kontis
It was like walking: if Rumbold didn't concentrate too hard on it, the illusion took care of itself
~ Alethea Kontis
overestimating!!
~ Alex Anderson
The Munduruku have many things, but not enough numbers to count them. Cantor has provided us with as many numbers as we like, but there are no longer enough things to count.
~ Alex Bellos
Numbers are not impartial and straightforward; they have baggage.
~ Alex Bellos
They were among the leaders of what I had begun to think of as "Team Apocalypse," the media outlets that – for reasons I could not fully understand – seemed committed to painting as bleak a picture of the coronavirus as possible.
~ Alex Berenson
they even put up bad reviews on TripAdvisor to scare away the tourists.
~ Alex Berenson
The things that stop you having sex with age are exactly the same as those that stop you riding a bicycle.
~ Alex Comfort
You ever hear that expression 'If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck'?
~ Alex Duval
There's a reason that God gave us two ears, two eyes and one mouth. It's so you can listen and watch twice as much as you talk. Best of all, listening costs you nothing.
~ Alex Ferguson
Leaders are usually unaware, or at least underestimate, the motivating power of their presence. Nobody sees themselves as others see them.
~ Alex Ferguson
advice often comes when you least expect it, and listening, which costs nothing, is one of the most valuable things you can do.
~ Alex Ferguson
Many people cannot stop long enough to listen - especially when they become successful and all the people around them are being obsequious and pretending to hang on their every word.
~ Alex Ferguson
there are two forms of observation: the first is on the detail and the second is on the big picture.
~ Alex Ferguson
I always wanted to watch with my own eyes without having my judgement swayed by the filters of others.
~ Alex Ferguson
If you are a boy who has just had his tenth birthday, your next one seems an eternity away. That's because the single year that stretches ahead amounts to 10 per cent of the time you have been on earth. It's a different sensation when you turn 50, because the distance to your 51st birthday amounts to just 2 per cent of the time you have been alive. As you get older and more experienced, you start to think about how you allocate time.
~ Alex Ferguson
Jamie Carragher trained with United as a youngster. When he was with us he was a midfielder and a mundane, run-of-the-mill player.
~ Alex Ferguson
I often of someone by listening to the questions they pose. It shows how they think; offers a sense of their level of experience and degree of maturity.
~ Alex Ferguson
I always watch to see whether people can maintain eye contact because it is a good measure of their confidence.
~ Alex Ferguson
It doesn't matter if the compensation scheme is denominated in hundreds of thousands of pounds per week or in bags of potato crisps. It's all a matter of relative worth, because a lot of people either feel, or want to feel that they are more valuable than anyone else.
~ Alex Ferguson
The thing every good leader should have is an instinct.
~ Alex Ferguson