#perceptions

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#feel #i #i can #i do #i feel

Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#hope #how #i #i hope that #legs

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#paintings #perceptions #real #undergo #viewer

And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts. ↗

— Emma Donoghue

#fairy-tales-for-adults #love #perceptions #beauty

Just because these flowers sprung from weeds doesn't make them less breathtaking as those in shops and well tended gardens. Some of the most beautiful "blooms" and events out of our lives spring from experiences that almost brea(o)k us. Perhaps these "flowers" are blessings which tell us how a lot of things aren't what they seem and that when we choose to change our perceptions our perspectives can transform too. Then maybe - joy doesn't have to be as elusive as we make it out to be just like weeds growing wild a few yards off an ocean shore. ↗

— Ruby S. Bernardo

#beauty

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#confidence #create #creative #creative spirit #dictate

I could now see her the way she actually is and not in the distorted way my mind presented her to me when I was trying to find a reason to reject her and move on ↗

— Jack Weyland

#perceptions #relationships #love

Are you listening, Jasper? Sometimes you'll be walking in the city late at night, and a woman walking in front of you will spin her head around and then cross the street simply because some members of your gender rape women and molest children! ↗

— Steve Toltz

#perceptions #women #world #men

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#perceptions #storytelling #perception

Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more colorful garments, more fancifully decorated vehicles, a wonderful sense of rhythm, and charm, charm, charm; unambitious, no, lazy, ignorant, superstitious, uninhibited people, never on time, conspicuously poorer (how could it be otherwise, say the northerners); who for all their poverty and squalor lead enviable lives -- envied, that is, by work-driven, sensually inhibted, less corruptly governed northerners. We are superior to them, say the northerners, clearly superior. We do not shirk our duties or tell lies as a matter of course, we work hard, we are punctual, we keep reliable accounts. But they have more fun than we do ... They caution[ed] themselves as people do who know they are part of a superior culture: we mustn't let ourselves go, mustn't descend to the level of the ... jungle, street, bush, bog, hills, outback (take your pick). For if you start dancing on tables, fanning yourself, feeling sleepy when you pick up a book, developing a sense of rhythm, making love whenever you feel like it -- then you know. The south has got you. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#culture #north #north-and-south #northerners #perceptions