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.

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....

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

What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people’s-visions-for-the-future.

The task may be simple for me, but if I make it look too easy, you won’t appreciate it as much as if I pretend to struggle to help you out.

What is important may or may not be important but what is thought to be important is indeed important.

The stories you believe to be true are the ones your life will become.

Your impression of me is different than my impression of me. But that’s OK, because your impression is impressionistic, like a Monet painting, while mine is realistic, like a Rembrandt.

there can be no failure to a human who has not lost his courage, unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, human does not lose his being in...

One might trouble one’s dainty snout with a whiff of the taleggio displayed in an artisanal cheese shop, or take a saucer of jasmine tea and a knuckle of fennel-scented snuff at a counter of...

The mind is just a delusion not a reality. If the materials are perception of our mind, then why we cannot turn into handsome guys and beautiful ladies without putting a hundred grams of makeup...

Perception is blind to the knowledge that you cannot understand.

Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

My job is not to worry about what everyone else thinks about me but to discover what I think. If I actually want to know what someone else thinks, my job is then to ask...

While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time.

Life is not what happens to us; it is what we perceive has happened to us.

Your desire to advise other people, grows in line with your perception…that assumes you’re wiser than them.

How you perceive yourself is how others will see you.

There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive...

Diplomacy “was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of “green”?

We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people’s minds.

[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...

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...

On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely different elements, as though the body were only a home...

I get so exhausted with people’s perception of what I must be like to be 40 when it’s actually wonderful. It’s incredibly fabulous. I’ve never felt sexier in my whole life. I can wear sexy...

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

It wasn’t the fog I minded, Cathleen. I really love fog. […] It hides you from the world and the world from you. You feel that everything has changed, and nothing is what it seemed...

When I win, it’s because I’m skilled. When I lose, it’s because my opponent is lucky. But when I fall in love, it’s because I’m lucky and she’s skilled.

Happiness is an inner perception, inner joyfulness. We are happy when we express our kindness unconditionally. We are happy when we love some one unconditionally. By becoming the source of happiness for some one we...

For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique.

In fine, that it is not enough to be good, without behaving in such a manner as shall make others acknowledge us to be so.

It’s just that you’re about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to...

I thought that to get to know a desert it was enough to have been there. I thought that to have seen the dogs dying along the Cholula road, or to have seen the eyes...

What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?

But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures.

I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if held in a mould. I have seen a face whose sheen I could look through...

Believing the phenomenon of karma is placing your destiny in the hands of the devil.

A child of repeated infinity.

It takes one to know one” when they become lost I condemnation and judgment of others. The world that we perceive is a reflection of our own states of mind and reveals our own level...

We don’t see the world as a botanist who is at the same time an architect, a physician, a geologist, and a ship’s captain. Recognizing isn’t at all like seeing; the two often don’t even...

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

Sometimes a loved one might not ‘spit’ the message in the most tender or poetic fashion that suits you, but don’t allow a rugged style to blind you from a loving intent. It’s the spirit...

People do not change, only expression and perception changes.

The wise do not buy into other people’s perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of. Instead, they bypass a person’s public persona and see who they are in their highest expression....

Wow,” a lot. Part of the brain exists to stop this from happening.

But there is another way of using the equivalence, which is almost the opposite of allegory, and which I would call sacramentalism or symbolism. If our passions, being immaterial, can be copied by material inventions,...

You can’t rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.

Shallan’s mental image of Jasnah Kholin was of someone almost divine. It was, upon reflection, an odd way to regard a determined atheist.