Pioneer Of Perception Gifts

"This is the only spectacle frame that fits your special needs, sir."

Out of control

"The trouble is, professor, you see the Erlenmeyer flask half empty and I see it half full."

"...and, if your idea is so imaginative, innovative and original, why aren't our competitors doing it?"

"I wish I'd had the eye test before I got married."

Famous Optical Illusions!

American Venn diagram

Others' perceptions (which aren't always true)

Objects in mirror bear no relation to reality.

"We have a goal wrapped in a plan, and served on a bed of success."

"I don't know. He just said he had discovered something and we had to come over and see it."

'It's better than we expected. Now the sheep produce wool in the winter and cotton in the summer.'

"You say priorities, I hear suggestions."

'I didn't choose art. Art chose me!'

"Is this speech pie-in-the-sky nonsense or aspirational?"

"It's not the timing of our relationship that's wrong. It's the lighting."

'Sales are still bad, but notice how cool everything looks with the 3-D glasses.'

"Why do you need to know if I've made a will?"

'And that's how we discovered curly genes, or, as Dr. Crick insists on calling them, 'DNA'.'

Optimist, Pessimist, Surrealist.

"Do you have any books on perception?"

Artists without borders.

Man reading problems of perception upside-down.

'I'll take THIS mirror.'

"Thanks to our wonderful research team we can now offer you gender choice at birth and puberty."

"That's not the real me."

Berkeley Webcams

Unreliable Narrator

They know me here. No words in my menu. Just pictograms. Al's menu. Menu.

'Thirteen'

'Hi, I'm Sheldon, and I want to speak to you about perception management!'

People respond to their map of reality - NOT reality

"Why do you always get to be 'half-full' and I have to be 'half empty'!?"

"Is it just the merciless sun playing havoc with a man's senses?"

'Which vacation destination do you prefer: a country where Americans are feared, idolized, envied or hated? Or shall we just let that be a surpriese?'