Quotes about Perception

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

Sometimes I get slammed because I work at Fox and I am black. People are like, 'How could you work there? Who are you?' People really want to know what are your politics personally. Some of them, not everybody.

I like to call everyone that I find slightly annoying a 'sociopath.'

In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.

The character of Chandigarh appears to be slow, but people here are quite competitive.

We paint a slow picture. You can see the brushstrokes. We don't get to the point, and sometimes when we do, our readers don't notice, in fact. It's so couched in nuance, it can fly right over a person's head. 'What was that you said? I couldn't quite make it out.'

Look, the American people are smart.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

I was a sort of serious little dude - snobby.