Perception Matters Quotes

It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct-- if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

Quality isn't a thing. It is an event.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Zen has an expression, "nothing special." When you understand "nothing special," you realize that everything is special. Everything's special and nothing's special. Everything's spiritual and nothing's spiritual. It's how you see, it's what eyes you're looking through, that matters.

Ethnicity is not a science. It’s how people perceive it.

Everything is mere opinion.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

It does not matter what others think, 'beauty' is just perception.

Beauty is an opinion not a fact.

Every writer has to make an emotional journey from artist sitting in attic to being part of a business. The writer of a film is like Tinkerbell. You are only there because people believe in you. The moment they dont, because youre a pain the arse, youve lost.

We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what we do is determined by each one who sees and hears it.

The way you see me is the way I am.

The real purveyors of the news are artists, for artists are the ones who infuse fact with perception, emotion, and appreciation...We are beginning to realize that emotions and imagination are more potent in shaping public sentiment and opinion than information and reason.

I think Putin has changed, for sure. He has changed over time and he has been emboldened by, whether it's true or not, the perception is that we've pulled back, so people do change and this is an example of that.

Men might be better if we better deemed of them.

Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.

What's good and bad, sweet spirit, are in the eye of the beholder.

Remember that all is opinion.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

In the case of the economy, the perception is the reality.

There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.