Perception of Others Quotes

The way you see people is the way you treat them.

There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts.

What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

I don't know if I can call myself underrated. Maybe some people may overrate me. Who knows?

According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her.

I want to do things that shock people. I think that persona attributes more to the roles that other people may consider me for, rather than the ones I consider for myself.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.

People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images.

I wanted people not to look at me as a little girl, but I was a little girl so how could I ask the world not to?

What other people think is their problem.

I wondered how I looked to her, in that place, and knew that even in a place that was nothing but knowledge that was the one thing I could not know. That if I look inward I would see only infinite mirrors staring into myself for eternity.

Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?

Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?

One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.

I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.

When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

In conversation, everyone sits in confident judgment on the world.

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

I believe that those who knew me [in my youth] took me for an eccentric.

Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast.