Michael Douglas Quotes

You know, I'll tell you, nothing changed after 'No Strings' for me. A lot of people said, like, 'Your game will be different,' but it wasn't. It really wasn't.

When you cut your hair, everybody thinks you lost weight.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose.

Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.

Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable.

If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them.

Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!

Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?

You can meet people who are really beautiful. Then, when you see them angry for the first time, all of a sudden they're not beautiful anymore. They didn't just step into the other room and have plastic surgery; they're still the same physically. It's just that something inside of them has changed. They're no longer attractive.

Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".

When any welfare scheme is being proposed, its political sponsors always dwell on what a generous and compassionate government should pay to Paul; they neglect to mention that this additional money must be seized from Peter.

It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.

A new species is being born inside each one of us. Eventually, we will all express the perceptions and values of this new species.

Getting lost in human perception is a very scary idea.

Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

I'm not a big believer in revolutions. What people call revolutions in technology were more of a shift in perception - from big machines to PC's (the technology just evolved, fairly slowly at that), and from PC's to the internet. The next "revolution" is going to be the same thing - not about the technology itself being revolutionary, but a shift in how you look at it and how you use it.

The lack of predictability with television is something that's constantly changing what your perception of who you think your character is.

Even though the outside world has not changed, your brain dynamically presents different interpretations.

Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.

Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.

Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private person to do the same thing, we'd call it theft. When government does it, we euphemistically call it income redistribution, but that's exactly what thieves do - redistribute income. Income redistribution not only betrays the founders' vision, it's a sin in the eyes of God.