Quotes about Perception

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game.

Children are all foreigners.

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

Whoever knows you when you are young can look inside you and see the person you once were, and maybe still are at certain times.

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn't help but notice which patrons checked out the same books. They appeared to have nothing in common, but who could tell what a person was truly made of? The unknown, the riddle, the deepest truth. I noticed them all: the ones who'd lost their way, the ones who'd lived their lives in ashes, the ones who had to prove themselves, the ones who, like me, had lost the ability to feel.

When you were young you were afraid of ghosts, and when you were aged you called them to you.

Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.

He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.