Quotes about Perception

No one has a transparent view of the world. In fact, we all carry around a personal worldview—the biases and experiences and expectations that color the way we perceive the world.

People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.

Low price is the last refuge of a marketer who has run out of generous ideas.

Tiffany's blue box is a slogan without words. It stands for elegance and packaging and quality and "price is no object.

It's not an effort contest, it's an art contest. As customers, we care about ourselves, about how we feel, about whether a product or service or play or interaction changed us for the better. Where it's made or how it's made or how difficult it was to make is sort of irrelevant. That's why emotional labor is so much more valuable than physical labor. Emotional labor changes the recipient, and we care about that. Soft

Here's another way to describe the two axes: One asks, Can you see it? The other wonders, Do you care?

My friend didn't understand what it means to be in the world, to be present and aware.

Many of the judgments we make of one another—judgments that cause great pain—are preventable, because they are based on misunderstanding

My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you" (Job 42:5).

Your life can only be as free as your perception of it

You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.

Faith is the evidence of the unseen.