People's Perceptions Quotes

#1. I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

Jim Brown

#2. Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.

Mira Sorvino

#3. It's how the news becomes so powerful it doesn't need TV or newspapers. It exists in people's perceptions. It's something they invent, strong enough to seem real. It's the news without the media.

Don DeLillo

#4. Anything that opens up people's perceptions a bit is good.

Peter Dinklage

#5. As most adults know, the distinctions between one's essential character and value and people's perceptions of that character/value are fuzzy and hard to delineate, especially in adolescence.

David Foster Wallace

#6. Its important not to focus so much on the statistics, but [on people's] perceptions.

Federico Pena

#7. People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.

Tracy McGrady

#8. The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#9. It was central to Nanny Ogg's soul that she never considered herself an old woman, while of course availing herself of every advantage that other people's perceptions of her as such would bring.

Terry Pratchett

#10. I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing.

Steve Carell

#11. The wise do not buy into other people's perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of. Instead, they bypass a person's public persona and see who they are in their highest expression. When you see actions taken with integrity, instead of words only, you will then know a soul's worth.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. 'Top Gear' changed people's perceptions of me. I've had much more positive responses from my TV appearances than written articles. And I have the weirdest voice.

James Blunt

#13. I sort of challenge people's perceptions of what a gay man is, which is kinda good.

Russell Tovey

#14. I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.

Ethan Zuckerman

#15. Frankly, I'm not responsible for other people's perceptions and what they consider real or fake. We must abolish the entitlement that deludes us int believing that we have the right to make assumptions about people's identities and project those assumptions onto their genders and bodies.

Janet Mock

#16. As humans, reality for us is largely based on other people's perceptions. If there's 20 bodies in your crawl space but you haven't been caught yet, you tell yourself you're still a birthday clown, and that's how you keep doing it.

Dan Harmon

#17. We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.

Ted Turner

#18. People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork.

Art Alexakis

#19. I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.

Helena Bonham Carter

#20. The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.

Brian Grazer

#21. Today is a black day. Tomorrow it may be white. You may look beautiful one day, and not the next. It is not only a matter of other people's perceptions, it's about our own perceptions. We constantly change. Every day our hair grows, our nails grow, we grow older. Everything ends.

Chloe Thurlow

#22. I don't dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don't know, people's perceptions of me. I truly don't.

Matthew McConaughey

#23. They don't try to trade 'reality', they try to trade
other people's perceptions of reality. If a market is dominated by enough technical traders, it could lapse into a 'postmodern' state, with traders trading perceptions of perceptions of reality.

Brett Scott

#24. I'm trying to get a thicker skin. I like to be aware of people's perceptions of me, but when you put it as a priority, as a means to judging your worth, that's when it can be dangerous.

Fergie

#25. Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy

Nicolas Sarkozy

#26. I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want, and do not want, to be true.

Travis Walton

#27. The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

Kimbra

#28. Teenagers expressing this on a daily basis in the middle of the streets - you can't help but believe we are in the mind state of taking our losses and changing people's perceptions of us and our community. We are strong. Our families are tired of being hurt.

Kendrick Lamar

#29. My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century.

Philip Treacy

#30. I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.

James Franco

#31. Activating is about changing people's perceptions of overlooked or invisible spaces. A building can become an archetype, invisible, like for a New Yorker, for example, the Statue of Liberty. You look at it, and it disappears into the thousands of times you've already seen it.

Chris Jordan

#32. Then again, that's how quickly people's perceptions could change. It only took one mistake, one stupid decision.

Siobhan Vivian

#33. The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

Vince Gill

#34. Admit it or not, you care about what others think about you. People who declare they don't are more likely pretentious. You cannot stop caring. It is in your nature. But it is absolutely wrong to live your life for others, to make your decisions based on other people's perceptions and expectations.

Grace Scott

#35. I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.

Macaulay Culkin

#36. My philosophy has always been to try to put myself into roles and films that are different. That intensified after 'Lord of the Rings' because it was so massive, but it's something I've always believed in, wanting to change people's perceptions and challenge myself as an actor.

Elijah Wood

#37. Ever since I left Northern Ireland, I've always been pretty comfortable on my own, which contradicts a lot of people's perceptions of me.

James Nesbitt

#38. It's rewarding to be able to change people's perceptions of reality, ... They just see their environment in a different way. They have a kind of different-colored glasses that they can see their world in. To me, that's really cool - when games can change you.

Will Wright

#39. People who feel themselves inferior have a pathological desire to disprove their own perceptions.

Tom Clancy

#40. It's the new technologies that govern production and consumption, that guide people's behavior and shape their perceptions.

Nicholas Carr

#41. People read things on Google, and they have these perceptions, these misconceived perceptions of who you are. At times that hurts, because they really don't know who I am.

Scott Weiland

#42. Different people have different ways of defining, living and maintaining relationships. Your way is not the only right way, it is merely your way. As far as right way is concerned, there isn't any. It is all about different opinions and perceptions.

Arti Honrao

#43. We have people who pay to use our products and services, and they are heavily engaged in our content. If you erase the brand perceptions of AOL, and consider that people pay to use our properties, you would probably consider this one of the most valuable audiences on the Internet.

Tim Armstrong

#44. But Annabeth knew that people saw what they wanted to see. They didn't need the Mist to warp their perceptions.

Rick Riordan

#45. Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

Stephen R. Covey

#46. It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

Arthur Smith

#47. People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works.

Marcia Gay Harden

#48. I've been around for so long, people have their perceptions of me: good, bad or indifferent.

Rob Lowe

#49. If the only vision we have of ourselves comes from the social mirror - from the current social paradigm and from the opinions, perceptions, and paradigms of the people around us - our view of ourselves is like the reflection in a crazy mirror room at the carnival.

Stephen Covey

#50. I think since I'm not particularly well-known as myself, it's funny all the different perceptions people have of me. Like, if someone's only seen me in 'Death Proof,' they think I'm sort of a ditzy girl who says stupid things and wears revealing outfits all the time.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#51. Thus higher-order memorization is a multistage process, involving the transfer of perceptions, or perceptual syntheses, from short-term to long-term memory. It is just such a transfer that fails to occur in people with temporal lobe damage.

Oliver Sacks

#52. People's realities are the result of their perceptions.

Karen Wojcik Berner

#53. Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language.

Ron Paul

#54. Don't expect people to change until you change your perceptions about people.

Debasish Mridha

#55. I always feel like I can do anything. That's the main thing people are controlled by: thoughts and perceptions of yourself ... If you're taught you can't do anything, you won't do anything

Kanye West

#56. In the safe harbor of each other's company they could afford to abandon the ways of other people and concentrate on their own perceptions of things.

Toni Morrison

#57. One of the best ways of becoming an effective parent - or, for that matter, an effective human being - is to understand the perceptions of other people, to be able to get into their world.

Jane Nelsen

#58. I think having six people all with different energies and different perceptions all working around a script is quite profound. It's not about, oh that's what you should be doing.

Jihan El-Tahri

#59. People have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist

Dean Koontz

#60. I like wearing beautiful clothes, but that does not translate into my work. People don't like to see me as a glam doll in my movies. My audience and the media love me with two different perceptions. It's a strange, crazy situation.

Sonam Kapoor

#61. In areas where the Bible has left us free, when we carry out Christian ministry, we should be constantly engaged in cultural adaptation - refraining from certain attitudes or behaviors to remove unnecessary stumbling blocks from the paths of people with culturally framed perceptions.

Timothy Keller

#62. 'Normal' is not clinical, it's not autobiographical, and I don't claim to be objective. It's strictly my perceptions and thoughts about the people that I met and the stories that I heard. It was never meant to be an academic work.

Amy Bloom

#63. You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.

Douglas Coupland

#64. people seemed to be especially prone to making mistakes when they judged the accuracy of their own perceptions if those perceptions were of themselves and not others.

Anonymous

#65. I longed to stabilize my core identity and to withstand the pressure of other people's words, behaviors, moods, and perceptions. I wanted to be less easily thrown.

Merri Lisa Johnson

#66. This beauty ideal is everywhere. You can't escape it - TV, wallpaper, posters, billboards, magazines. They put on these crazy perceptions about what people should look like. It's really shocking the way everybody is striving for this one thing, this ultimate beauty, but what is it?

Jurgen Teller

#67. Humour very often consists of shrewd perceptions about people. It's usually fun at someone's expense. Nowadays if you're funny at anybody's expense they run to the UN and say, "I must have an ombudsman to protect me." You hardly dare have a shrewd perception about anybody.

Robertson Davies

#68. It's much easier to control our perceptions and emotions than it is to give up our desire to control other people and events.

Ryan Holiday

#69. One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behavior was its insistence that women were victims, and men powerful patriarchs, which made a travesty of ordinary people's experience of the mutual interdependence of men and women.

Rosalind Coward

#70. People do care where their food, or other goods, comes from, not merely if the price is right. And that means no business can afford to ignore the impacts their buying practices have on producers and on the perceptions and choices of consumers.

Julian Baggini

#71. Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.

Oscar Pistorius

#72. In fact, because the unself-aware - which includes basically everybody - are impervious to uncharitable perceptions of their underlying motives, all these insights you have into people and what makes them tick are surprisingly useless.

Lionel Shriver

#73. I have spent years of my life lovingly absorbed in the thoughts and perceptions of . . . people who do not exist.

Marilynne Robinson

#74. We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

Virginia Satir

#75. Very few people stutter when they are standing alone in a room speaking to themselves, so how much did Ted's blindness free him from reacting to the perceptions of others?

Katherine Preston

#76. In all our perceptions, from vision to hearing, to the pictures we build of people's character, our unconscious mind starts from whatever objective data is available to us - usually spotty - and helps to shape and construct the more complete picture we consciously perceive.

Leonard Mlodinow

#77. There are lots of cycles to markets - boom and bust - and also in perceptions of people. The conventional wisdom of Steve Case as genius or fool was highly cyclical. The truth was always in the middle.

Steve Case

#78. I had little contact with people outside academia and had formed my assumptions about the rest of the world primarily from watching films and televisions as a child. I recognised that the characters in 'Lost in Space' and 'Star Trek' were probably not representative of humans in general.

Graeme Simsion

#79. If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.

Albert Ellis

#80. We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.

Stefan Zweig

#81. Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled people who are perfectly healthy but often convinced they're not.

Vincent Canby

#82. Never accept other people's limited perceptions of you. Define yourself. You can do anything.

Jeanette Jenkins

#83. I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people who are neither ... So it seems to me that my world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.

Toni Morrison

#84. Gifted people of discernment, intelligence, and talent flourish in virtually every occupation. Every field produces perceptive and prescient persons whom exhibit the rare capacity to observe what eludes most people.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#85. Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things.

Raymond Arroyo

#86. People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.

Marshall McLuhan

#87. You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different.

Bernhard Langer

#88. Clinical psychologists have proven that ordinary people
will alter their memories of the past to make them fit
their perceptions. It is the way all normal brains function
under ordinary circumstances.

Scott Adams

#89. Once we recognize the fact that every individual is a treasury of hidden and unsuspected qualities, our lives become richer, our judgment better, and our world is more right. It is not love that is blind, it is only the unnoticed eye that cannot see the real qualities of people.

Charles H. Percy

#90. A lot of people have their own perceptions about me, like I'm very stuck up, so full of myself, you know. But it's not true ... ,

Nadia Buari

#91. People see America through particular lenses, either their profession, their race or their gender. So the party that speaks to our racial perceptions and offers solutions to the racial difficulties which we face is the party that's going to be rewarded with our votes.

Julian Bond

#92. I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.

Tom Conrad

#93. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is their perceptions of reality.

Ehab Atalla

#94. A nation which neglects the perceptions of its artists declines. After a while it ceases to act, and merely survives.
There is probably no use in telling this to people who can't see it without being told.

Ezra Pound

#95. We're attacking all accepted values. Authority, class differences, shared perceptions. We don't care what happens to our social structure -- revolutions are for suckers. Our target is people's collective consciousness. It's like throwing a cream pie in their face.

Fuminori Nakamura

#96. The value of a novel is not limited to its depiction of emotions and people akin to those in our own life; it stretches to an ability to describe these far better than we would have been able, to put a finger on perceptions that we recognize as our own, but could not have formulated on our own.

Alain De Botton

#97. The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.

Edward De Bono

#98. Not all light is good. There is negative light, that can cast bad shadows.

Anthony Liccione

#99. It's pretty exciting to take real people living in the real world, their opinions, and have people have to react to that. As opposed to their perceptions of what people are thinking, which are often very different.

Sheryl Sandberg

#100. Truth is a battle of perceptions. People only see what they're prepared to confront. It's not what you look at that matters, but what you see. And when then different perceptions battle against one another, the truth has a way of getting lost. And the monsters find a way of getting out.

Emily Thorne