#perception

I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#adjusted #being #change #college #got

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#artificial #exist #invest #lives #media

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#could #ego #his #i #novel

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#beings #far #human #human beings #important

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#awakens #back #belongs #go #mtv

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#difficult #doing #filmmaker #french #honoring

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception. ↗

— Van Morrison

#famous person #get #i #me #morning

I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#crazy #did #guy #i #knack

It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#perception #point #point of view #someone #view

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#because #children #could #i #long