Bryant H. McGill Quotes

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

Attitudes are much more important than facts.

The way you see people is the way you treat them.

Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast.

I don't really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me.

Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

It is only on the basis of the probable and the apparent that men bereft of a sixth sense are able to sit in judgment over other men.

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

I don't know if I was the baddest. People kind of saw me in that light.

Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality?

Evil is that which one believes of others.

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

Even the simple act that we call "going to visit a person of our acquaintance" is in part an intellectual act. We fill the physical appearance of the person we see with all the notions we have about him, and in the totality of our impressions about him, these notions play the most important role.

I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting over the world without making much contact with it, and that the people I knew appeared to me at a different angle from the one at which they appeared to themselves; and that the reverse was also true. I was smaller to others, up there in my balloon, than I was to myself. I was also blurrier.

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.

Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon.

Maybe I'm seeing myself in a different way than the people in the audience see me, 'cause to me, I think I look like a ballerina and I feel like a ballerina. But maybe I'm not seeing what other people are seeing.

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

People can portray me anyway they want because I don’t give a damn… But don’t you analyze me and don’t you tell me what I am until you get close enough to understand what I am. Then you can make an analysis of me. But don’t you dare do it until then.