The telling of stories creates the real world.
There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became.
The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
In a campaign, impressions can be much more important than facts and debate.
Imagination creates reality.
Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.
I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began.
In reality, our mind is the creator of all the things we experience.
The problem is that perception is reality.
We don't realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard.
My identity will always inform my experience and shape my perception. But I am an unremarkable person.
Power in Washington is simply the perception of power.
We live in condensations of our imagination
The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
Whether it's positive or negative press, it's all good. I do understand the game.
I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.
Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is to produce it.
Whatever is spoken of acquires a certain existence.
Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged. It is not merely that on the television screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse. It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails. (92)
In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.
Your thoughts really, truly shape everything in your life that you feel and experience.
I've always paid a lot of attention to the way that different kinds of media affect how we see the world, probably because I've been an actor since I was a little kid.
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.
I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.
