Quotes about Perception

If you notice, no child star made it big when s/he grew up because the child's image was still fresh in people's memory. They could not digest the fact that the child star had grown into a man.

I have noticed that no other group of people in the United States truly loves America as a whole like white people do.

Time is numbered only to man.

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

I wanted to hear sounds of everyday objects - even musical instruments - as things.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

The words we speak have a direct and definite effect upon our thoughts. Thoughts create words, for words are the vehicles of ideas. But words also affect thoughts and help to condition if not to create attitudes. In fact, what often passes for thinking starts with talk.

When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world

Change your thoughts and you change your world