Quotes about Perception
If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
— Vincent Van Gogh
It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
— Virginia Woolf
Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections.
— Thomas a Kempis
But if Christians don't get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?
— NT Wright
Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.
— Bill Gates
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
— Arthur Ashe
The truth is that the sole reason we don't see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.
— RC Sproul Jr.
We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.
— Madeleine L'Engle
If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look on his humility as a weakness; if he is generous, we call his courage pride.
— Louis Bourdaloue
People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.
— Seth Godin
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
— Robert Louis Stevenson