#perception

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

There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy. ↗

— Harry Anderson

#guy #here #hollywood #i #perception

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

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#feeds #form #freedom #matter #movements

What is different is not necessarily dangerous, and what is similar is not always secure. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#quotes-to-live-by #death

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#bookshelf #century #delivered #middle #paper

Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic. ↗

— Susan Blackmore

#basic #certainly #colored #down #everything

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#almost #important #level #more #perception

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#feeling #humor #opposite #perception

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#better #continue #doing #freeze #frozen