Misperception Quotes

#1. A common misperception of me is ... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.

Sean Bean

#2. I think there has been this increasing misperception that kids will not respond to something because it's also for adults. I think that often that tends to get underestimated.

Christopher Nolan

#3. We generally have what we need. The general misperception is that we need what we want.

Ridley Pearson

#4. I think it's the misperception of addiction and living life on the edge, as if it's cool.

Mariel Hemingway

#5. The problem that I think I have with God is often not a problem at all. Rather, it is most frequently a tired misperception where I have made God what I need Him to be in order to justify my rejection of Him.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.

Dalai Lama

#7. I think for far too long there was this perception, or I guess I would call it a misperception, that our locker rooms in the NFL are extremely homophobic, and that could not be further from the truth.

Scott Fujita

#8. Every problem perceived to be 'out there' is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.

Byron Katie

#9. There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

#10. Sometimes the emptiness in a room becomes palpable as if you could reach out and touch it real, hear its silence, feel its black nothingness. It invades your spirit, your soul like a stealthy misperception; a liquid lie that whispers and will not die, and makes you fight to stay alive.

Gloria Smith

#11. There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would call over-the-top performances. Well, this is completely false.

Nicolas Cage

#12. It is a fundamental misperception," Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.

Lauren Slater

#13. I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

Octavia Spencer

#14. There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.

Mark Ruffalo

#15. A misperception about anorexia is that you don't eat. Not true. Maybe you eat just 500 calories a day. It would be easy for me to say, 'Why didn't my parents notice?' But I didn't want them to. I made sure to eat half a sandwich around my parents.

Brittany Snow

#16. The World Series of Poker was becoming popular, and there were a lot of really bad poker players out there. The misperception was that I was really good, but I just ground it out. It was a good way to make money for Box.

Dylan Smith

#17. Beyond our most stubborn misperception lies often our fondest dream.

Robert Breault

#18. Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.

Julia Cameron

#19. I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true.

Alanis Morissette

#20. Sadness is not out there. It's inside you. Sadness is often a misperception and false interpretation of a situation.

Debasish Mridha

#21. Many people believe that introversion is about being antisocial, and that's really a misperception. Because actually it's just that introverts are differently social. So they would prefer to have a glass of wine with a close friend as opposed to going to a loud party full of strangers.

Susan Cain

#22. When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#23. The most common misperception about me is that I write fast. I just write often. Every hour that I can.

Joyce Carol Oates

#24. When military men take over, honest men dance to the strings they pull.
Your life is no longer your own.

Howard Fast

#25. The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch.

Julius Streicher

#26. Contemporary warfare, then, is best practiced by the professional serial killer.

Frederic Morton

#27. When the night comes, streets welcome the lonely souls because they alone can fully understand the lonely streets!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#28. I am a very competitive person.

Kendall Jenner

#29. Because I have 'chosen' to see something as impossible, there's a good chance that it's not.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#30. The function of money is to facilitate the business of the market by acting as a common medium of exchange.

Ludwig Von Mises

#31. Greatness doesn't come from what you do, but from who you are.

Marie Forleo

#32. My Pirelli calendar is hanging on the wall of my friend's frat house, and he doesn't know anything about fashion. That balance is what leads to big campaigns outside of fashion. But I never want to choose one or the other. Both commercial and high fashion are what make my job so interesting.

Gigi Hadid

#33. There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#34. The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#35. A man who doesn't test the mettle of his soul isn't much of a man ...

Joey W. Hill

#36. Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.

Wes Anderson

#37. People who are doing things for fun do things the right way by themselves.

Linus Torvalds

#38. Worrying is the greatest pride, which is why nature punishes one heavily. Nature punishes more the one who worries, than it does the one who curses God. The doer is some other entity and you are worrying? Are you mightier than even nature?

Dada Bhagwan

#39. Despite the fact that life has repeatedly reinforced my conviction that the tomb was empty, some of my most profound errors have occurred when I was straining under the weight of a death that was in reality the liberation of a transition.

Craig D. Lounsbrough