#perceived

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere. ↗

— Dave Blood

#control #energy #fool #get #how

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#cruel #die #dogs #free #good

In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#become #days #different #exposed #human

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#how #over #perceived #realize #you

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio. ↗

— Ken Blanchard

#four #manager #need #negative #perceived

I can recall back in 1998, in August of that year, when we had a horrible disaster along the Mexican border in the town of Del Rio. At the time, FEMA was the shining star of the federal government. It's now perceived as many to be the dullest knife in the drawer. Right or wrong, that's the perception. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#august #back #border #del #disaster

I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing. ↗

— Robert Bork

#bidding #did #had #i #i think

I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about. ↗

— Vanessa Hudgens

#because #being #doing #fake #feel

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm. ↗

— Sol Wachtler

#allow #because #believed #cannot #crime

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. ↗

— Mark Twain

#before #ideas #marriage #perceived #relation