Quotes About Perception

Are you kidding me? The woman leaves priceless Ming vases and Picassos lying about like they came off a sale rack at some discount store and she fills a hidden safe with musty old books?

A diary or journal isn't necessarily something that should be done daily so much as it is a clue to how to see the daily world around oneself differently.

Ama Kardinal Hazretleri, izin verirseniz söyleyeyim. Biz, öteki ressamlar ellerimizle konu?uruz... - Olmad?, diyerek araya girdi yeniden Arezzo Piskoposu, kafayla konu?uyorsunuz... Alg? yoksa, dü?ünce de yoktur, görüntü de yok. Hatta ayn? ?ekilde, ?iir, konu?an resimdir... Resimse, Senyör Orazio, sessiz ?iirdir.

The reality is that being controversial generates attention for a little while, but it's usually not good for your career in the long term.

In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout, as a way to find fans who wouldn't have ordinarily come across their genre of music.

When men see an attractive woman, they fantasize about sex. When women see an attractive man they fantasize about a relationship.

I was in love with the idea of him. An ideal of him. Of who I thought he was. Of who he used to be.

Life isn't complicated. It's very simple, really. It's us who make it complicated.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possession of her right mind must be in want of a decent man.

Time has a funny way of airbrushing relationships, removing all the things that were wrong so when you look back it looks much better than it really was.

I don't understand it myself, really. It's like the idea of him is better than the him of him

They probably didn't care if it was the real thing or not. They wanted it to be. And by suspending their disbelief they could believe in the illusion.

she'd been in a hermetically sealed bubble. A " couple bubble" that made the rest of the male species invisible.

Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses.

It was the feeling she'd had when Sam had first kissed her in the pub. When he'd first put his lips against her. She didn't know if she'd imagined it or if it had just been the effects of the booze, but it had felt as if a thousand flash bulbs were going off in her brain. As if someone had turned on a very bright, very intense light. And she;d sure as hell never wanted to switch it off.

No one ever died of cellulite or wrinkles.

My theory is that's why our eyesight goes as we get older: to protect us from seeing ourselves in sharp focus.

Are you saying being normal is being happy ? in that case , most people probably aren't normal

the people who matter will see you, no matter what.

What I want to know is, when did busy become better? When did a jam-packed diary become a measure of success?

I'm not saying this to be trite or to make you feel better, but believe me when I say this: the people who matter will see you, no matter what.

What gives people whose whole life is a lie the right to judge me?

It's not about what you've done; it's how you've experienced whatever has happened to you. Matt Lawrence in The Overachievers

If schools celebrated student scientists the same way they celebrate student athletes, more students would be encouraged to pursue the subject. Instead, science is considered nerdy because schools help students to paint it that way.