Pharrell Williams Quotes

What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.

The satiated person and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread.

Nature is objective, and nature is knowable, but we can only view her through a glass darkly and many clouds upon our vision are of our own making: social and cultural biases, psychological preferences, and mental limitations (in universal modes of thought, not just individualized stupidity).

Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.

The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different.

I love humans; always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.

If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle with the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expected or hoped to see than on what was really there.

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.

Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents.

Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel of indisputable information is a dot in space; interpretations grow out of the desire to make this point a line, to give it direction. The directions in which it can be sent, the uses to which it can be put by a culturally, professionally, and geographically diverse society are almost without limit. The possibilities make good scientists chary.

I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind.

The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled.

The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.

I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see—and I don't.

Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.

The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive.

People sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions.

How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.

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

We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.

Your perception of the world is ... really a fabrication of your model of the world. You don't really see light or sound. You perceive it because your model says this is how the world is, and those patterns invoke the model. It's hard to believe, but it really is true.

What you see determines how you interpret the world, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and how you expect the story of your life to unfold.