Quotes about Perception
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
— Marilyn Monroe
The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.
— Marilyn Monroe
If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?
— Marilyn Monroe
All men are the same. They just have different faces so that women differentiate them.
— Marilyn Monroe
Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music. That old adage is certainly true of those who walk to the beat of God's drum. When you take your cues from the Holy Spirit, you'll do some things that will make people think you're crazy. So be it. Obey the whisper and see what God does.
— Mark Batterson
We don't see the world as it is; we see the world as we are...if someone has a critical eye, they will always find something to be critical about. And if they have a grateful eye, they will find something to celebrate even in the worst of circumstances...Having a "good eye" in life changes how you see yourself and everything around you... your focus determines your reality.
— Mark Batterson
Our normal is so subnormal that normal seems radical. To the first-century disciples, normal and radical were synonyms. We've turned them into antonyms.
— Mark Batterson
even if the people could no longer hear God, he believed that God could still hear them.
— Mark Batterson
Psychologists call this phenomenon the contrast effect. Simply put, how you see anything depends on your reference point. One way or the other, your focus will determine your reality.
— Mark Batterson
We are living in a time where the hearing from God is bombarded by many frequencies and voices. This noise, corrosive in nature, makes it difficult to hear God's voice...living with more noise means we live less like a disciple. We need a prism. Eric Samuel Timm is a prism.
— Mark Batterson
but thinkers and feelers relate to God differently. So do introverts and extroverts. And that goes for all sixteen personality types in the Myers-Briggs matrix, all nine Enneagram types, and all four DISC profiles.
— Mark Batterson
Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music.
— Mark Batterson