A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest.
Reality's its own thing. And I'm not really into reality that much. I'm into this cinematic stylized reality that can comment on reality. It's like the most beautiful parts of reality and the saddest parts, but it's none of this middle ground.
Remember that my view, the only true view I can see with, is through the black eyes that I have.
If I can get a sanitized version of reality, I'll take it.
The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.
Perception is not always reality.
Everyone is taking selfies. Everyone's actually getting that - looking at themselves and they filter. Now if they do a little filtering, it's OK because they want to look like a better version of themself. Overdoing it though can be a little bit more of that dysmorphic issue where it's not a good thing.
Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.
All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.
We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.
We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.
I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.
When you think of how a child experiences a series of events, it feels, for so long, like she's looking at everything from behind this glass and it's obscured.
We may try to see things as objectively as we please. None the less, we can never see them with any eyes except our own.
However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.
Well, there's this culture on Instagram where everyone uses filters and lighting, or people smooth their skin out. It's this weird thing. We all know it's not real and we all complain about it, yet we all do it.
I was more active pregnant than I ever was not pregnant. I was doing Body By Simone five days a week. That definitely helped me shed the weight after giving birth. But it's all smoke and mirrors, too. People on Instagram forget that you're showing them what you want them to see. We have filters.
People want to see the world the way they want to see it, not the way it is.
The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
It is possible to assemble a narrative for yourself, brokenly, on social media, only seeing what you want to look at.
Everyone is filtering their selfies to make them look perfect. We're seeing it more and more in my clinic - patients want to look like a photo they've tweaked. They show me the picture and say: 'This is the new me.' But many times it's not realistic.
Even if you don't think you filter your life on social media, by its very nature you're only showing part of yourself.
