Harold Evans Quotes

Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others feel that my parents, while certainly flawed, also had truly wonderful qualities. And that's the way it should be, because in real life two people can look at the same president and one will see a hero and the other a villain.

Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them.

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.

It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered.

One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

Something that's a hilarious comedy, for someone else might be a drama.

We all look at the same object in different ways.

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

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

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.

We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.

Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.

People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.

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

Maybe you just saw what you wanted to see. Or maybe you justfelt what you wanted to feel.

Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly.

What people are perceiving will dictate what their life and ultimately what your interaction is.

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

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.

When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.

I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.