Benjamin Jowett Quotes

You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.

It’s not what you are that counts; it’s what people think you are.

It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.

The way people see you is the way you really are.

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

When I tell people I'm a model, studying for my engineering, they are impressed.

People seem to think I got where I am because of the clothes that I wear.

With acting, I think half of it is just acting confident. We stand on these red carpets and pose in these dresses, but we're all only so confident. It doesn't mean we think we're great looking or anything. It's all a façade.

The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation.

People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.

Appear tougher or cooler or funnier than you feel and there is a chance you'll make it.

The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.

One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.

There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.

How the world perceives you is largely out of your control.

Do I look like the kind of person who gives a ****

Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.

You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

You know, there's a thing about the woman across the room. You see the woman across the room, you think, She's so poised; she's so together. But she looks at you and you are the woman across the room for her.

It's better to look important than sexy.

You should always look like a star. Otherwise people will lose a little of the esteem they have for you.

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.