12 quotes found
“We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless. What gets me is that most people decide who another ...”
“I asked my dad what people would remember sooner, the things I said or the things I did. His response was: Forgive me, but what people?”
“I kept returning to this new and bizarre question: is there anything that actually is as it seems? Is anything perceptually straightforward? Maybe thats inherently impossible, because impressions a...”
“People say I have created things. I have never created anything. I get impressions from the Universe at large and work them out, but I am only a plate on a record or a receiving apparatus what you...”
“Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer.”
“We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.”
“Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth or moss.... We easily forget that we are track-markers, through, beca...”
“Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too.”
“Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.”
“Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires.”
“I make my own judgements of people, mate. I don't need to borrow yours.”
“To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.”