#perception

Do you think he's the murderer?" "It's worse than that -- he's an actor! ↗

— Julian Fellowes

#crime #humor #movies #murderers #perceptions

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#darkness #human-nature #optimism #perception #perspective

We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence. ↗

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

#perception #reality #nature

It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbors the perception that says "I did it". ↗

— Veda Vyasa

#mover #nature #perception #nature

Be like the flower, content with its nature. ↗

— Seth D.

#contentment #desire #happiness #identity #living

After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#after #awards #before #changed #enormous

If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#cbs #doubt #exists #gets #i

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience. ↗

— Freda Adler

#become #diminished #eventually #experience #fade

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion. ↗

— Samuel Alito

#based #case #court #decision #i

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

#any #beauty #beginning #correction #doing