The telling of stories creates the real world.
There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became.
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.
In a campaign, impressions can be much more important than facts and debate.
Imagination creates reality.
I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began.
Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.
The problem is that perception is reality.
In reality, our mind is the creator of all the things we experience.
We don't realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard.
Power in Washington is simply the perception of power.
My identity will always inform my experience and shape my perception. But I am an unremarkable person.
The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
We live in condensations of our imagination
I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.
Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is to produce it.
Whether it's positive or negative press, it's all good. I do understand the game.
Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged. It is not merely that on the television screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse. It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails. (92)
Your thoughts really, truly shape everything in your life that you feel and experience.
In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.
Whatever is spoken of acquires a certain existence.
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.
I've always paid a lot of attention to the way that different kinds of media affect how we see the world, probably because I've been an actor since I was a little kid.
I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.
