We look like fools and they look like heroes. That’s how kings fall.
This is no longer a question of what I’m seeing. No, we know that’s not reliable. The real question is, what am I not seeing?
Publicity, it has a way of flattening. Flattening you and the people you love into types.
Perception is power. And we must appear powerful, now more than ever.
Perception is a tool that’s pointed on both ends.
Perception is reality. And perception is formed right off the bat.
When you’re running from someone who thinks they know you, the best place to hide is a city they think you hate.
When one is never invited to speak, one learns instead to observe.
The duality of his kind: admired as a gladiator; yet despised as a slave.[about Spartacus]
Perception of reality becomes reality.
It’s a psychology thing. If you don’t expect to see a superhero in your school, you don’t see a superhero in your school.
Intelligence is a story. A story based on incomplete facts. Life or death decisions turn on whether people buy the story.[to Stuart]
