People only see what they are prepared to see.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility.
Many people here are completely unsuitable for shaping public opinion. I am going to weed them out.
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
My Twitter is a joke toilet, and I filter all these old, cringe-y parts of my brother and my childhood through that in an attempt to flush it down the drain forever.
Keep the best, forget the rest.
There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.
All truths are not to be told.
I'm not going to just refrain from giving information I hear just because it might upset some people.
Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
Cruise director is - I always laugh and say, 'He's the ship's liver,' because almost everything you can think of filters through you at some point.
I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.
You've got to make sure you're listening to the people that are important to listen to. And then everything else, you kind of have to tune out and do your thing.
You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.
We see things as we are, not as they are.
To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.
We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own. Being able to glance out into this bewildering complexity of infinite recursion and say things like, 'Oh, hi, Ed! Nice tan. How's Carol?' involves a great deal of filtering skill for which all conscious entities have eventually to develop a capacity in order to protect themselves from the contemplation of the chaos through which they seethe and tumble.
I don't vocalise things that don't deserve attention.
I can't say I'm particularly happy about all the spam and the viruses and the equivalent that we see on the Net, but I think technology can deal with many of the problems that we're now seeing, whether it's filtering or whatever, and laws may help a lot.
You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.
Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.
Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions.
Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.
