Quotes About Perception

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away.

The American public does not know poets exist.

Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.

My brother and I were brought up sort of thinking that we were English. I remember hearing the poet Roy Campbell on the radio and being quite shocked that he had a South African accent. I didn't know there were any South African poets.

I envy poets because nobody ever asks them if it's true or false.

We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

I don't want to be called a point guard, but I can't stop it.

When you're younger, everyone wants to be a point guard. Everyone wants to shoot fadeaway jump shots all day. Nobody wants to be a big man. Nobody wants to go stand on the block and just set picks.

Plenty of times LeBron is mistaken as a point guard, which is awesome.

I think I'm a shooting guard and a point guard, to be honest with you.

If you're not a scoring point guard, people don't think of you as highly. They don't think of you as the type that's going to make an impact in college because you're not trying to score 20 points a game. You're more trying to get 10 assists.

A good novel is something that challenges perception, that allows you to see the world anew through a different point of view - something that genre fiction doesn't do, although it sells more because it doesn't disturb people's innate sense of what a novel should be about. Often, people want characters to be nice, for example.

I think that's the greatest gift one can have: point of view. You know? I've come to believe that if you have a bad memory of something, change it.

I define myself from a vision, from a point of view of life.

From the traditional point of view, I am not handsome.

An outsider's point of view is always handy.

Fashion tells about who you are from external point of view.

Every filmmaker imbues a movie with their own point of view.

It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.