perception-quotes

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Sometimes you just don't like somebody.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

- Albert Einstein

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.

I know I come off differently than I think of myself. I'm always surprised by what people say about me.

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

- Marcus Aurelius

I like some shooters, and I respect games like Doom, but I don't think it's right for me.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

- Albert Einstein

I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

I think certain people like to torture me because they think I've had it easier than I actually have and they think: 'Oh, she's got this, she's got that, she's always had everything perfect,' and it's sooo not true.

I am not here to speak the Truth. I am here just to give you a method to perceive it.

I've always wanted to be a giant space crab.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

- Albert Einstein

I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.

Sometimes you just don't like somebody

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

- J.R.R. Tolkien

If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.

So the whole process of spirituality is just about enhancing your perception.

There are lots of random blog posters on places like Gamespot or NeoGAF or whatever who show a clearer understanding of Braid than people who are all, "I'm all about games, and narrative and meaning, and I write a blog just to tell you about how I analyze all these things." Those people have the same hit rate as your general forum poster. So that's given me a cynical response to that whole community, which is just that, "Guys, are you sure you're qualified to do this?" And that sounds asshole-ish, and mean and snarky, but that's just how I'm feeling right now.

- Jonathan Blow

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

- Pablo Picasso

I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.