Quotes about Perception
In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.
— Steve Jobs
It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.
— Eugene Peterson
I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.
— Ben Carson
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.
— Jean-Francois Cope
So many people are on television that don't know me, and they're like experts on me.
— Donald Trump
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way you see your life shapes your life.
— Rick Warren
Life is real, and death is the illusion.
— Mary Baker Eddy
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
— Vernon Howard
If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter.
— George Clooney