#perception

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#magic #perception #wonder #wonder

Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#women #perception

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#perception

If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives--we are each of us unique. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#human-condition #humanity #individuality #uniqueness #perception

We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them. ↗

— Colson Whitehead

#people #perception #perception

It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#opening-up #perception #perception

You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus. ↗

— John Green

#names #perception #the-fault-in-our-stars #perception

Cal had been waiting for us at the pond. When he’d seen me, he’d given me a barely perceptible nod, which was the Cal version of waving his hands over his head and yelling, “Hey, Sophie! ↗

— Rachel Hawkins

#perception

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away. ↗

— Alan Moore

#perception

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror. ↗

— Colin Powell

#driving #focus #perception #strategy #perception