perceived significance Quotes

Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something.

the psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, as psychological needs go, but yet of course we should always remember that a deep need for anything from other people makes us easy pickings.

Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.

Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being... You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.

It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.

The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.

Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.