E. B. White Quotes

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

I absolutely do care what people think about me.

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

I think people just probably don't want people to think that they're vain.

It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or he may suffer the deepest remorse for an undetected crime, but he will not blush... It is not the sense of guilt, but the thought that others think or know us to be guilty which crimsons the face.

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

It's very difficult to change the perception people have of you.

I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

I don't know how I'm really perceived in the world.

I think people can be quick to judge. The people that know me, they know what I am like.

It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.

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

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

People get comfortable with the way you are—they have formed their opinion of you based on everything they see and know about you as a person. When you change that up by losing weight, they no longer understand you.

Frankly, I get much more sensitive about what's written about me than how I look in a photo. I'm so used to people seeing my image in plays and films that what they think about how I look is none of my business. If they says, "Hey, he doesn't look good," I'm like, Whatever, because I know I look different from day to day. But if you're up there putting your heart into something and people reject your performance, that's very painful. The written word can kick your ass.

Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.

Comedy crowds - we always want to come out and ask you, 'How you feeling?' We always say that, 'By a round of applause, how do you feel?' Right? 'By a round of applause, how you feeling?' It's the only place in the world that you judge how you're feeling by a round of applause... There's never like a car accident, people all over the ground, people running over - 'Ma'am! Ma'am! By a round of applause, how do you feel? By a round of applause - she's not clapping!

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.

What does bother me is that I have to spend time and energy dealing with the ramifications of what people do think about me.

I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general.

People can say whatever they want to about me... and I don't get too affected. But I didn't want them to think I was a failure.

Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were, no one would ever talk to you?

The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.

You should be semi-embarrasse d about certain people seeing your movie.

Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for.