Quotes about Perception
He must be suffering, too. She had noted the weary sag of his shoulders, the quivering lips, the tear- filled eyes. Somehow she had never thought of him as hurting- of being capable of understanding how she felt.
— Janette Oke
Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.
— Michelangelo
Never judge a work of art by its defects.
— Washington Allston
The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
— CS Lewis
...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera. Unlike a lot of actors, I think that's the thing that I'm not so comfortable with.
— Christina Ricci
Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.
— Michael Wolff
Human nature being what it is, if you told me you were going to give me one dollar with no strings attached, I probably wouldn't question the gift too much. But if you told me you wanted to give me one hundred dollars with no obligation, I'd have to think about it for a minute before accepting.
— Tony Evans
People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture.
— Max Lucado
The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.
— Joyce Meyer
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
— Napoleon Hill
It's not my place to say how Zoe Saldana perceives herself, and I can't say how anybody else perceives her, either. I see her as a black person of Hispanic origin, but I don't even know what that really means, because I don't know anything about race and Hispanic culture.
— India Arie