Quotes tagged ‘Perception’

“What remains are not the cold facts of life, but how we perceive them. That's really who we are.”

— Kirk Douglas, amazon.com

“The idea that I should care what a bunch of kids at my school think about me... It's preposterous.”

— Dan Lagana, Kevin McClain, Travis Tope, imdb.com

“Just because you use your eyes, doesn’t mean you see what’s actually there.”

— Murray Carter, tim.blog

“If you think too far into Poppy, it becomes difficult to enjoy Poppy.”

— Allison Stubblebine, nylon.com

“Perception of reality becomes reality.”

— Bob DeLaurentis, Noah Hawley, V.M. Vargas, David Thewlis, imdb.com

“One’s eyes can be deceived. We see what we believe, not the other way around.”

— Bob DeLaurentis, Noah Hawley, V.M. Vargas, David Thewlis, imdb.com

“Spoon Boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth. Neo: What truth? Spoon Boy: There is no spoon. Neo: There is no spoon? Spoon boy: Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.”

— Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Spoon Boy, Rowan Witt, imdb.com

“Sometimes, the more you look, the less you see.”

— Kieran Fitzgerald, Oliver Stone, Hank Forrester, Nicolas Cage, imdb.com

“I know you better than you know yourself, but you don't know me at all.”

— Joseph Weisberg, Joel Fields, imdb.com

“The messiness of our home changes constantly.”

— Elsie Larson, abeautifulmess.com

“We need to take women out of the box; to stop using a narrow set of adjectives to describe her as a leader.”

— Fran Hauser, refinery29.com

“You can’t fight what you can’t see.”

— Keto Shimizu, James Eagan, Sara Lance / White Canary, Caity Lotz, imdb.com

“Oh, you wanna make a difference? Yeah, I get it. You're one of the good guys. But guess what. We all think we're good guys.”

— Jenji Kohan, Alex Vause, Laura Prepon, imdb.com

“There is no such thing as magic, just illusion. Things only change when we change them. But you have to do it skillfully, in secret. Then it seems like magic.”

— Jantje Friese, Martin Behnke, Mikkel Nielsen, Daan Lennard Liebrenz, imdb.com

“People think they want the truth, of course — but that is simply not borne out by human experience, which is really just a series of hypocrisies.”

— Brandy Jensen, thecut.com

“The truth is people may see things differently, but they don't really want to.”

— Dahvi Waller, Matthew Weiner, Don Draper, Jon Hamm, imdb.com

“You are not simple. Your life is not simple. Your life is totally different and also exactly the same as everyone else’s.”

— Stephanie Georgopulos, omgstephlol.tumblr.com

“It's one thing to question your mind; it's another to question your eyes and ears. But, then again, isn't it all the same? Our senses just mediocre inputs to our brain? Sure, we rely on them, trust they accurately portray the real world around us, but what if the haunting truth is they can't? That w…”

— Sam Esmail, Elliot Alderson, Rami Malek, imdb.com

“I think people see what they want to see in other people.”

— Stuart Zicherman, Helen Solloway, Maura Tierney, imdb.com

“I am no nihilist. I am not even a cynic. I am, actually, rather romantic. And here’s my idea of romance: You will soon be dead. Life will sometimes seem long and tough and, god, it’s tiring. And you will sometimes be happy and sometimes sad. And then you’ll be old. And then you’ll be dead.”

— Tim Minchin, goodreads.com