Personal Perception Quotes

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.

The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard outside images as reality and they never allow their own inner world to speak.

Everybody is nicer to me when I'm in yellow.

The greatest lie that was ever told is that I'm some sort of rightwinger.

Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.

Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.

I have my idea of India... don't demean it.

I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially English in everyone's mind - and perhaps I am. Perhaps it's quintessentially English to have a fascination with America.

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

What we experience is our own concept of things. That is why no two people see quite the same world, and why, in many cases, different people see such different worlds. To put it another way, we make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.

Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other.

I don't think my life is more interesting than anybody else's.

Contrary to the image of a neurotic man created in some quarters, I feel very much at peace with myself.

It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).

Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within

When we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and mean-spirited things do occur in our interactions with other people that would allow us to take offense. However, it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend me. Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally false. To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

...Every single one of us goes through life depending on and bound by our individual knowledge and awareness. And we call it reality. However, both knowledge and awareness are equivocal. One's reality might be another's illusion. We all live inside our own fantasies, don't you think?

I have no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny.

Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no longer sensibility at all. It has hardened into an idea.

I've played games where I thought I played one of my better games, and statistically, there's nothing there, and vice versa. I've never based how I feel about my performance on stats.

I'm perceived as someone who goes out and searches for new music, but it was all present in my household.

Beauty is present in all creation, but the danger lies in the fact that we allow ourselves to be influenced by what people think. We deny our own beauty because others can't or won't recognize it. We try to imitate what we see around us. We try to be what other people think of as 'pretty' & little by little, our soul fades. We forget the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

I don't know if I'm a national education figure.