Perception is Reality Quotes

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance

You're guilty until proven innocent. Perception is reality, that's the way that it is in this world.

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see.

What you sees, is what you gets.

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

Be careful with how you make the world perceive you, because they'll perceive you like that for the rest of your life.

The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways. This is the point, reality is nothing, perception is everything.

For [Donald] Trump, popularity equals truth... He understands that in American public discourse, it's hard to say the people are wrong.

Am I a fruitcake? I don't know. Perception is reality, so if I sit here and say, "I'm not a fruitcake, I'm a lemon cake," it doesn't matter. What you see me as in your world is what I am; it doesn't matter what I am - do you know what I mean? To me, I know what my real problems are - and they're certainly not about cake. And that's just the way it is.

Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

I think the greatest truths, the ones that you find in every culture that has any sort of history of reflection of writing, the greatest truth is that there's nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so. That's the way Shakespeare put it. But you get basically the same idea from Buddha, from the Bhagavad Gita in India, and from the Stoics in ancient Greece and Rome.

The impetus for 'Power' was me writing about my dad, who was an advertising executive and very interested in image. He thought that perception was reality and what people thought of you was what was real about you.