Bob Greene Quotes

What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.

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

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed.

Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.

The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?

Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.

While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.

The book Forest Dark wants to provoke questions about what is reality and why are we so given to believe that reality is firm and unbendable. There's a whole host of questions that the book is asking about that. Why do we believe that the world is only one way and as we see it? Why are we not open to the ways in which it might be otherwise.

Words and a book and a belief that the world is words.

I am not sure how a novel changes the world. I think it alters a reader's perspective by asking him or her to see the world through another consciousness. That can perhaps cause people to see their own lives differently. Or just give a single day, a single moment, a slightly different sheen.

How does it happen that something that makes so much sense in the moonlight doesn't make any sense at all in the sunlight?

Today I no longer need to change the world around me. I just need to change the way I see it.

When someone tells you it’s a grain of sand, there’s a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back and ask what the image is and what it means.

I wanted to be a visual artist, but I realized I was more affected by what I read than by what I saw. I would go to a show at a museum and look at a painting and say, 'Oh I wish I owned that,' and that would be the end of my relationship with a painting. With a short story I would read or with an author I would discover I could be haunted. It would affect my mood and affect the way that I saw the world. I thought, wow, it would be amazing to be able to do that.

I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.

The only revolution that will change anything is a revolution of perception.

When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was.

There is nothing more powerful than a changed mind.

There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.