Quotes About Perception

Sometimes, the supposedly weak groups turn out to be very difficult, and the supposedly strong ones are easier to take control of.

There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.

I had never really co-written. I thought it was weak or something if I needed to collaborate.

Women's emotions are constantly labeled. Any slight deviation from 'pleasantness,' and we are labeled as hysterical. When we are angry, sad, depressed, or manic, we are immediately seen as unfeminine or ugly or weak.

I think all things are political... How women are portrayed - that's a big thing for me. What is this role trying to say about women? Is this woman weak or victimised, and, if so, do we get to understand why?

When I was a teenager, I thought if any of my friends or people at school see me reading a book, they're gonna think I'm weak. So I didn't even do it in private. Then I grew up, got into college, and the teachers turned me on to books, and I got hooked.

There's stigmas attached to anything that makes you, in the public's eye, seem weak. So of course, you know, you're in a business where your image, and the way people perceive you, you are taught, is important.

When you have a disability, people think you are weak. They think they can prey on you.

In Western Catholicism, darkness was evil. In the colonial and imperial context, dark skin was always weak, powerless, subjugated. If you see these images all the time, they become commonplace, and they no longer become a spectacular or sensational thing.

I knew people would see 'PKP.' Although the packaging was weak, the product was good.

I try to listen to all music with an open head, a clear head, try not to say just because I don't know it, it's weak.

Most people know Serge Gainsbourg's 'Histoire de Melody Nelson' album, but what's interesting is that in the early '90s, he actually went into a dark, weird phase that French people don't really like. They consider his music from that time weak. But for me, it's the best.

I derided Christians as anti-intellectual bigots who were too weak to face the reality that there is no rhyme or reason to the world.

Everyone knew I was home-schooled. Everyone always said I was weird, and they're kind of right. And I think people can always tell that I'm a weak link. So if you are going to bully someone, I'm an easy target.

I am here to say that there is no drawback to being a woman in business. But if you think it's a drawback, then it probably does work against you. It's like playing poker. People will look for your weak spot, and your weak spot is only what you allow it to be.

'Pretty' is such a weak word.

I'm very weak in a sense. I'm very tiny and I am very emotional, and that is not something people usually associate with strength.

By folding often, I give other players the false impression that I'm a weak player - a player who can be easily bluffed. Trust me; I'm not a weak player.

It's perceived that money can take care of anything but in my experience it makes everything 15 times harder because you can't act 'normal' and you're not allowed to be vulnerable or weak but we all are.

All our lives... we are after this race of being slim or fat. I think the only classification should be if we are healthy or weak.

I once told a white South African woman that her food was as weak as the Rand, and she complained of racism. Now I watch what I say.

You know a guy. You know what's their best pitch. But catching it - that's different.

People think footballers are all like robots - we can control everything on the pitch. But your heart is beating 200 times a minute; it's very, very physical.

Everyone thinks that footballers go on the pitch and they have so much money that they think about themselves. But I am not like that.