Quotes about Perception

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.

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.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

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.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it's an illusory sense of control.

I think I shot 78 one time. My golf game is so overrated.

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

The media wants me to change, but it would be very dishonest to supporters to do so.

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

Patrick: How do you know so much about dating? You're a teenage girl. Tess: Because I'm a teenage girl.

Emptiness where you wouldn't expect it speaks to you.

What would it look like to live in awe of every moment? To really, really see the terrible splendor, the delicate wonder of life?