Quotes About Perception

Anybody that believes that Adrian Grenier's name is really Vince should probably watch less TV.

I'm a man that believes what I see, and everywhere I go... and everywhere I've been... I get nothing but love.

No matter what anybody says or thinks, nobody believes that I'm not the number one welterweight in Strikeforce. I think that's not even a question.

I wasn't a No. 9, as everyone believes today. Every time I played as a No. 9, I failed.

I was actually quite small when I was young. No one believes me now, but I have pictures at home.

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

One of the things I learned early on was the system of believing: you have to believe in what you say. The camera is the arbiter of truth; it's the all-seeing eye that can pick out discrepancies. You can't lie to the camera. You must believe in what you're saying, or the audience won't believe you.

The expansive anarchy of the Internet continues to lull us into believing that, because we can see something, that something should be seen. Because we can say something, there is something that must be said.

I know that for most people, seeing is believing when it comes to government efficiency.

I thought, 'Anyone can make up a lie, but making the truth funny is really hard.' But I actually had more problems with people believing me when I told the truth on stage.

I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'

You don't find me too bald, do you? Old, and bald, and with a belly?

I have a beer belly.

I've got little ankles and a bit of a belly, so it makes me look rather an egg on legs.

In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.

I don't ever view myself as a straight country act, and I don't think the straight country acts view me as a straight country act, either - but I certainly belong to them.

I see how people look at me, all around the world. They see something because of the race I belong to. I have to understand that and put it into my music.

The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It belongs to the film.

In politics, when you wake up, you can make out who belongs to which party. In cinema, you cannot make out who belongs where. Everybody looks like your friend.

Sometimes I turn the TV just below where you can hear it and write down what I think they might be saying by the mumbles and rhythms.

Interim belt is made for media and fans, not for me.

It is the inner experience which counts. And you have to be there for it. All else is mere thinking.

awareness is at least as important and useful to us as thinking. In fact, it is demonstrably more powerful in that any thought, no matter how profound, can be held in awareness.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. THOREAU, Walden