Quotes about Perception
If someone walks by or speaks to you, you may find that your power of attentiveness extends to this person as well. Even if you do not know him, you may be able to see his soul too, the one he thinks he has so carefully covered up. There is something he is working on in his life, the same way you are working on something. Can you see it in his face? You are related, even if you do not know each other's names.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
When the compressor for the air conditioning in the house turns on, I feel apologetic. I had no idea how loud it was out here, clearly interrupting a whole valley full of creatures that are trying to say something to one another.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart once said he could not define pornography, but he knew it when he saw it. Reverence is a little like that. It is difficult to define, but you know it when you feel it.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Maybe someone should start an Opaque Church, where we could learn to give up one kind of vision in hope of another. Instead of wearing name tags, we would touch each other's faces. Instead of looking around to see who's there, we could learn to listen for each other's voices.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Our shadows are often behind us, where others can see them better than we can. If we want to hear and see more, even the parts that expose our scornfulness, we need partners from outside our ingroups to keep telling us how we sound.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Men are like parking spaces, the good ones are already taken and the ones left are running out of their metres
— Barbara Johnson
It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I think reality television has made the fashion industry and the beauty industry, any industry - frankly, just life - it has made life seem much different than it really is.
— Emily Weiss
I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.
— Hill Harper
A lot of preachers' kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.
— Joel Osteen
If I'm not nervous, I'm nervous. You never know how people are going to receive the work.
— Marina Abramovic
In a lot of ways, I feel like I'm just taking the music that comes to me and trying to make it as beautiful as I can. You can't really predict or control how people will receive that music.
— Kamasi Washington