#perceptions

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#change

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#perceptions #change

You know, one of the perceptions, again, about FEMA is that there's been a demise in the organization since it became the - under - it started to become part of the Department of Homeland Security. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#again #became #become #been #demise

Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue can also convey a sense of place. Even so, I insist, the traveler invents the place. Feeling compelled to comment on my travel books, people say to me, "I went there"---China, India, the Pacific, Albania-- "and it wasn't like that." I say, "Because I am not you. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#perceptions #travel #experience

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

— T.F. Hodge

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

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

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

I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#absolutely not #aristocratic #change #creature #exuberant

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