Popular Perception Quotes

#1. Now, the popular perception certainly is that violence is greater today-but that's mostly propaganda: that's just a part of the whole effort to make people frightened, so that they'll abandon their rights.

Noam Chomsky

#2. Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

Billy Joel

#3. I wanted to reinvent horror comics. I felt like it was my mission to open people's eyes to the fact that horror comics could be so much more than the popular perception of them.

Stephen R. Bissette

#4. Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

Mark Zandi

#5. I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about concealing. I like flawed characters that people relate to. I would never do a romcom.

Emraan Hashmi

#6. For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe this is good-I have never the time to get myself bored.

Marcel Tabuteau

#7. When I step back and look at all of these really successful people that I've worked with, one thing I do take away from it is how hard they work and how focused they are.

Mia Wasikowska

#8. The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time. Therein lies the difference between the genius and a commonplace man.

Douglas Fairbanks

#9. Tell me what you want, and I'll tell you who you think you are. Tell me what you fear, and I'll tell you who you really are.

Brunonia Barry

#10. Men like you aren't made, though, Tanner. Men like you just are.

Kristen Ashley

#11. If on one day we find the fast-spreading recognition of popular rights accompanied by a silent, growing perception of the rights of women, we also find it accompanied by a tendency towards a system of non-coercive education
that is, towards a practical illustration of the rights of children.

Herbert Spencer

#12. I said once that lies have no rights against truth. I was wrong. In daily life, it's the truth that's disenfranchised. What fits the popular narrative, what makes an observer happy with the consistency of events, is what is believed.

Adrian Lamo

#13. When you are blessing the sick, you beg of the Almighty, but actually you are not begging for anything, because from inside your being, energy is pouring into the other person. It is from a state of compassion, of compassionate meditation, that the healing activity of God, within the being, flows.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#14. There's no people like show people.

Irving Berlin

#15. Now I shall go far and far into the North,
playing the Great Game

Rudyard Kipling

#16. I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless.

Kahlil Gibran

#17. The night that seemed endless hours before is now slipping through your fingers, ticking by as it falls into the past and pushes you towards the future.

Erin Morgenstern