Quotes about Perception
The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.
— George Bernard Shaw
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
— Walt Whitman
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body with incredible flow of the meat everywhere, it was beauty.
— Marina Abramovic
You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.
— Henry David Thoreau
By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone. . . But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on
— John Mayer
At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.
— Tony Robbins
I know I have my faults and shortcomings, but the blow them all out of proportion!
— Anne Frank
I only look at her as a mother, and she doesn't succeed in being that to me.
— Anne Frank
What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does reflect on all Jews.
— Anne Frank
Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should, stupid, cowardly, calculating, etc., etc. All day long I hear nothing but what an exasperating child I am, and although I laugh it off and pretend not to mind, I do mind. I wish I could ask God to give me another personality, one that doesn't antagonize everyone.
— Anne Frank
Father always says I'm conceited, but I'm not, I'm merely vain!
— Anne Frank