#perceived

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#clubs #football #football clubs #funding #gigantic

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#i #into #me #perceived #push

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. ↗

— Scott Adams

#choose #free #free will #greatest #greatest pleasure

Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#better #christianity #christians #crusades #east

US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

#blue #commitments #declarations #face #make

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say! ↗

— Mary Douglas

#disappointment #expectations #go #hand #i

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio. ↗

— Ken Blanchard

#four #manager #need #negative #perceived

Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#being #dumb #famous #got #guess

Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#how #i #like #mention #myself

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#irrational #mysteries #perceived #poetry #rational