Quotes About Distorted Perception

#1. I think what we are seeing is a vicious circle: by covering the controversies and the conflicting realities, it creates a much distorted perception of Islam and Muslims. When a minority is being taken as a majority, it creates a wrong image.

Tariq Ramadan

#2. There is a distorted perception of what goes on in Brussels. No one reports on the Commission taking a hundred initiatives from its predecessor off the table in order to shift competencies back to member state governments.

Jean-Claude Juncker

#3. I never thought I could love someone so much, but sometimes never is a distorted perception, because I continuously find myself falling deeper in love with her every day.

Cheryl McIntyre

#4. But fairytales were, at best, dirty mirrors whose warped and pitted surfaces reflected a highly distorted view of the truth, quite different from reality.

Nenia Campbell

#5. Impatience can be very good by helping us not put up with tyranny, but it can distort our view of what is possible and how to bring about change. We have to cultivate patience so that our perception isn't distorted.

Paul Ekman

#6. Would you say you have a "philosophy" Of your own? If so what is it?'
'If I have it's all skin and bones ... If I have any philosophy ... it's that life could be better than it is.

Bernard Malamud

#7. Christ slackens off all my chains.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Readers can read what they want and easily switch to other books, so we're seeing a lot of reading behaviors. Some verticals attract different usage than others. We can spot reading patterns.

Trip Adler

#9. What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.

Sanford I. Weill

#10. In our first season we had a 22 rating. Today Seinfeld, a hit show, gets a 15. Lost in Space actually had a bigger audience than Star Trek got at that time.

Mark Goddard

#11. Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

Sam Walton

#12. The first Elizabeth film was an absolute travesty historically. It really was sloppy. Things like 'The Other Boleyn Girl' and 'The Tudors,' people's perception is distorted because of these. It matters to me as a historian, because I spend my life trying to get it right.

Alison Weir

#13. I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.

Lady Bird Johnson

#14. You're being paid a lot of money to maintain a distorted view of reality, but you don't notice the tricks that your big bonus plays on your perception of reality.

Dan Ariely

#15. It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#16. I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

Ana Castillo

#17. Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.

Chris Hemsworth

#18. Dwarfs are very argumentative, sir. Of course, many wouldn't agree.

Terry Pratchett

#19. I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

Yahoo Serious

#20. Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and its role in society have been distorted.

John Mackey

#21. One sample is poor statistics, my math prof used to say.

Arthur C. Clarke