perception challenge Quotes

It's taken a while for me to convince people that I can do something other than Scully. And it still takes effort.

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.

People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.

Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing.

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.

My thoughts seem thick, ketchup stuck in a bottle. Like trying to feel someone's face while wearing goosedown mittens.

The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex.

...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.

It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.

What could possibly be more fantastic than reality?

Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it and to choose to learn with wisdom.

We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.

I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation. It is virtually impossible at this distance to grasp at all the real significance of the situation.

The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it.