Quotes about Perception
Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.
— Aristotle
As a public poet, people often don't see the reality of my life.
— Amanda Gorman
Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.
— Sofia Vergara
I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.
— Marilyn Monroe
Protestants so often confuse being Republican with being Christian.
— Tony Campolo
Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead - they call us.
— Barack Obama
I guess because I came to it later in life, I realized, 'Oh, going to a fashion show is like going to the opening of Degas at the Met or going to see Swan Lake.'
— Kerry Washington
A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
— Marilyn Monroe
I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.
— Jennifer Aniston
the evils against which we contend are frequently the fruits of illusions which are similar to our own.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
and the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner and deeper will it cut thy fingers, if thou take not heed (647).
— Richard Baxter
If people in your community are not responding to the gospel as they did in New Testament times, one possible reason is that they do not see God in what you are doing as a church.
— Richard Blackaby