Steve Young Quotes

Perception is reality.

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

Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

I don't know that any of us can control our own image. We are what other people see.

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

The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.

You are what you're portrayed as.

What a people believes, even if untrue, has the same influence over their lives as if it were true.

In polling, truth is what people perceive.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

People have a good image of me. It's not these tramps who are going to tarnish my image. They should stop lying to the French people. It annoys me that people talk about 'your image'. My image is great in France. When I'm abroad, I don't even talk about it. But in France it's just these people, these parasites.

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

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

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

My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.

I care about public perception, yes. I don't care about my enemies' perception.

Be careful with how you make the world perceive you, because they'll perceive you like that for the rest of your life.

Well, I don't know what image people have of me.

What is important for me is that the people who know me for real know Mario how he really is. People who don't know me, they read newspapers and they watch TV. TV is made to give a lot of opinions... so I can't show the real Mario to everybody.

People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.