#perceptions

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#middle #middle age #own #perceptions #their

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

What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes. ↗

— Julian Assange

#benefit #clear #conducted #conducting #how

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem. ↗

— Jim Brown

#am #going #i #i am #interested

The energy you bring, positive or negative, dictates your perceptions, receptions and radiations. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#attitude-toward-life #dictate #dictates #energy #negative

These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness. ↗

— Dave Sim

#away #between #came #commonly #connections

How different would our perception of reality be if, instead, we discarded the mudane events that cannot coexist with our dreams? ↗

— Robin Hobb

#perceptions #dreams

The essence of life is the sharing of our perceptions of it with each other. ↗

— Al Cash

#perceptions #sharing #life

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#determine #help #how #key #metaphors

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

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