Quotes About Perception

When a child sees herself through the prism of her peer group, the resulting self image can be distorted.

Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance.

The human brain takes in information from other people and incorporates it with the information coming from its own senses, neuroscientist Gregory Berns has written. Many times, the group's opinion trumps the individual's before he even becomes aware of it.

Group membership can modify individuals' perceptions of themselves. Unable to separate their personal introspection from the ways they believe other people perceive them, teenagers may have what psychologists call an "imaginary audience", meaning that they believed that other people are just as attuned to their appearance and behavior as they are.

Students usually don't refer to themselves as nerds until someone else accuses them of being one.

Teenage drinking has been declining since 1999, but students vastly overestimate their classmates' use of alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes. For example, a study conducted at a Midwestern high school when teenage alcohol use was peaking found that students believed that 92% of their peers Frank alcohol and 85% smoked cigarettes. When researchers surveyed the school to unearth the actual statistics, they learned that 47% of students had consumed alcohol and 17% smoked.

Still, I believed I understood. Or maybe I just put it in a context I could safely manage.

she was alternately confused and angry at his lack of reference to their past, but she decided to let him take the lead. Either he had his reasons or he wasn't the man she once knew. And she was certain by now that he was still that man, only more.

Liars lie to others and they lie to themselves without even the concept of lying arising in their minds because this concept doesn't exist for them. There is no judgment, remorse, guilt, worry, or condemnation because lying is not a right or wrong thing. It just is. An axiomatic "Given." To

He had never been able to find any technique to handle that quality in her. Sometimes she acquiesced immediately to his requests, but on other occasions she refused them flatly and he could not reverse her. It never occurred to Lane that his wife sometimes concluded he was right and sometimes wrong. To Lane, it was approach not content that moved the world. He

It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

Trebuie s? ai un spirit pesimist; cel optimist e lamentabil, grotesc ?i stupid. "Gânde?te pozitiv!" Cum adic?, s? gândesc în mod deliberat fals, numai ca s? am o stare pozitiv?, care s? plac? cui ?i cui s? fac? un bine? Trebuie s? fii apt s? prive?ti realitatea exact a?a cum e, frumoas? sau pocit?.

Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.

Every man in the world is either a Realist or a Nominalist. Give yourself a test: if someone called you a gigger or a fell-picker, and you knew it wasn't true, would you hit him or smile? That's how easy it is to tell.

Also a fan of being inscrutable, Franco once said, 'You are a the slave of what you say and the master of what you don't say.' He might have added that that approach isn't always guaranteed to work. If you attempt, for example, to be sphinx-like, mysterious and enigmatic when you get to the front of a long queue at the chip shop, you do risk being punched quite hard in the back of the head.

Those who suffer a defeat are often branded by history as lacking in talent, whereas it is frequently circumstances that are unfavourable to them.

The Dimensional box concept is used to entrap us, never believe that these are real or will ever be in reality.

The Dimensional box concept is used to entrap us, never believe they are real.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

El tiempo físico nos es extraño, mientras el tiempo interior es nosotros mismos.

This was why. So that she would become conscious.

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

Cuteness can not be measured and is therefore only based on opinion. If someone calls you cute, then that means they find a cute characteristic in you that you may not necessarily see in yourself. (Unless they say it as an insult).