You know, Junie, you’re fourteen now. I think you can certainly manage to put together a sandwich. …The thing is, if my mother had any idea what I had in my backpack, she would have made me that sandwich. If she knew that I’d searched and searched the house until I finally found the little...

Puedo deleitarme con el paladeo de las partes que han constituido un momento.

Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.

Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have sex or to appear on television. My efforts to live up to this maxim have mainly resulted in my passing many unglamorous hours on off-peak cable TV. It was actually Vidal’s great foe William F. Buckley who...

The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man’s perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.

My heart goes out to some of those rather hostile yet highly intelligent individuals who may see problems really because they have solutions. That hostility is learned in defense; not offense. An often stubborn and prideful world, in its self-destructive, temporary bliss of ignorance, may be violently resistant to the watchful mind.

Your face influences your life, because it effects how people treat you. Sometimes you don’t have to be king to be treated like royalty—you only have to look like the king.

When perception will change then today’s sadness could be tomorrow’s happiness.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.

Il te semble que tu pourrais passer ta vie devant un arbre, sans l’épuiser, sans le comprendre, parce que tu n’as rien à comprendre, seulement à regarder : tout ce que tu peux dire de cet arbre, après tout, c’est qu’il est un arbre ; tout ce que cet arbre peut te dire, c’est qu’il...

If I imagine my soul, as I do when I pray, it’s shaped like Stapafel. No change of place or religion can alter that. I lived beneath Stapafel from the hour I was born until I was sixteen. I’ve never seen it since, but that doesn’t matter. My soul is in the likeness of a...

Children, like God, see only our actions.

People are afraid of change. Change is inevitable to life. Change actually has the mask of pushing us out of comfort zone. Every time we learn, go through life experiences our perception/Emotional chemistry is changing. Embrace change because we are becoming a more polished version of ourselves.

The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance. No one else can see the world the way you see it. No one else can feel your life the way you feel it. Thus it is impossible to ever compare two people because each stands...

I mean that the reason God seems to act in ways that make no sense to us is that our perceptions are wrong. Our expectations are subtly twisted. We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good. God...

Recognizing isn’t at all like seeing; the two often don’t even agree.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

Quite often it’s not about what is said, but what isn’t. And even when it’s spoken, read between the lines. Listening with the heart is just as important as hearing with the mind.

Perception and reality are two different things.

Silence is a lie that screams at the light.

A European says: I can’t understand this, what’s wrong with me? An American says: I can’t understand this, what’s wrong with him?I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.

Andrei, did you like the opera?””Not particularly.””Andrei, do you see what you’re missing?””I don’t think I do, Kira. It’s all rather silly. And useless.””Can’t you enjoy things that are useless, merely because they are beautiful?””No. But I enjoyed it.””The music?””No. The way you listened to it.

I love objectivity when mine.

Rich or poor it’s nice to have money

Part ways with your perception of reality, allow the unknown and your curiosity muster into a visual you’ve never allowed yourself to see.

Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of the box looks like as well. Those who are best at thinking outside the box do it not to puff themselves up, but to see how small they really are. As a contented...

Love, far from being blind, is the very emotion that allows us to see.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured

Happiness is there when perceptions and expectations are in joyful harmony.

Reality is what you look at and what you make of it. All in between is how you are.

I won’t do this movie because I don’t believe the love story,” she told Selznick. “The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can’t fall in love so deeply.

There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I can certainly acquit the women. Whatever man allows his mind to dwell upon the imprint his imagination has foolishly taken of women, is fanning the flames within himself — and, since the woman...

Ich hörte, dass Karl May der Öffentlichkeit so lange als guter Schriftsteller galt, bis irgendwelche Missetaten aus seiner Jugend bekannt wurden. Angenommen aber, er hat sie begangen, so beweist mir das nichts gegen ihn – vielleicht sogar manches für ihn. Jetzt vermute ich in ihm erst recht einen Dichter!”(Neues Wiener Tagblatt, 20 November 1935)

I live in a world where people are guided by limited imagination; only facts that are favorable to them are truths. They are unable to live anyway else. When a person finds out that a fact is against them, it’s usually because it’s the truth. No one tries to step outside of the edge of...

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perception define individuality

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

This is where life as I knew it changed. This is where a new feeling slowly, eventually, permeated every cell of my body, changing the way I took in the world. My perceptions, opinions, everything changed the year I moved from Texas to Virginia.

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure....

America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there’s a perception that that is okay.

I believe that life is all about perception and timing. That good things come to those who act and that life’s about more than collecting a paycheck. I believe that the only person you’re destined to become is the one that you decide to be. That if you try hard enough you can convince yourself...

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

The perception is that they take too long and are too expensive.

People seldom change. Only their masks do. It is only our perception of them and the perception they have of themselves that actually change.

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

[Women] complain about many clerks who attribute all sorts of faults to them and who compose works about them in rhyme, prose, and verse, criticizing their conduct in a variety of different ways. They then give these works as elementary textbooks to their young pupils at the beginning of their schooling, to provide them with...

For Persons are selves and, in one respect at least, I was now a Not-self, simultaneously perceiving and being the Not-self of the things around me. To this new-born Not-self, the behavior, the appearance, the very thought of the self it had momentarily ceased to be, and ofother selves, its one-time fellows, seemed not indeed...