Quotes about Perception
She looks at you as if she really sees you." So many people had looked past me. "I think I'd like that," I said. "No," said Becka. "That's why she's so scary.
— Margaret Atwood
Florida's not the hick town you keep saying it is," says Reynolds. "Times have changed; they've got good universities now and a great book festival! Thousands of people come to it!
— Margaret Atwood
All that I see teaches me to thank the Creator for all I cannot see.
— Henrietta Mears
This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.
— Albert Einstein
The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
— George Bernard Shaw
They say, "God told me", or "God replied to me". And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.
— John of the Cross
Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy where we are.
— John Calvin
Most of the time, it's your thinking, not your talent, that holds you back.
— Rick Warren
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.
— William Faulkner
Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
— Ernest Hemingway
What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems 'good, pleasant and desirable' at the time of arrival.
— JC Ryle