Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.
Michael ShermerMots clés storytelling patterns perceptions
I could now see her the way she actually is and not in the distorted way my mind presented her to me when I was trying to find a reason to reject her and move on
Jack WeylandMots clés love relationships perceptions
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Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.
Stephen R. CoveyMots clés perceptions
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.
Stephen R. CoveyMots clés perceptions lens
There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.”
[narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.
Mots clés writers people actors perceptions descriptions insider
Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful] is contrary to the truth, just as I will show you with a hypothetical case. Let us suppose they did this intending to draw fools away from foolishness. It would be as if I attacked fire -- a very good and necessary element nevertheless -- because some people burnt themselves, or water because someone drowned. The same can be said of all good things which can be used well or used badly. But one must not attack them if fools abuse them.
Christine de PizanMots clés individuality truth gender harm men women morality water prejudice danger misogyny hypocrisy foolishness argument fire stereotypes double-standards clichés perceptions social-norms conduct misrepresentation abuse generalizations damage one-sidedness
Are you listening, Jasper? Sometimes you'll be walking in the city late at night, and a woman walking in front of you will spin her head around and then cross the street simply because some members of your gender rape women and molest children!
Steve ToltzMots clés men women world perceptions
Do you think he's the murderer?"
"It's worse than that -- he's an actor!
Mots clés humor murderers crime actors movies perceptions
Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British?
Julian FellowesMots clés humor actors movies stereotypes clichés british perceptions affectations accents directors film-industry movie-business claudette-colbert
Then again, that's how quickly people's perceptions could change. It only took one mistake, one stupid decision.
Siobhan VivianMots clés perceptions thoughts-on-life
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