Quotes: Perceptions
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Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.
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Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
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You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They’re so not me. That’s why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.
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We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.
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Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.
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An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
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I just wanted to have fun for myself – I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions.
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High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
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Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
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It’s a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.
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