#perception

There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#descriptions #insider #people #perceptions #writers

I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity. ↗

— Kenny G

#criticized #else #i #increase #know

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#cannot #conduct #confirm #daily #embedded

Well, for me, really, I think it was I wanted to try and clear up some of the misperceptions that were out there and fill in some of the historical gaps. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

#fill #gaps #historical #i #i think

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#attachments #beliefs #beyond #districts #enjoy

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

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

Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality. ↗

— Bill Owens

#government #perception #problem #reality #recognizing

Science is nothing but perception. ↗

— Plato

#perception #science