Quotes About Distortion

The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

Qué es un mapa sino una forma de destacar ciertas cosas y disimular otras?

A circle looks at a square and sees a badly made circle.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

When we Surrender, we distort our view of situations to confirm our lifetrap. We react with strong feelings whenever our lifetrap is activated. We select partners and enter situations that reinforce our lifetrap. We keep the lifetrap going.

Alex consistently distorts or misperceives situations so that they reinforce his lifetrap. His view of situations is inaccurate: he feels people are attacking and humiliating him even when they are not. He has a strong bias to interpret events as proving he is defective, exaggerating the negative and minimizing the positive.

the past had been no better or worse than the present—the human brain glossed over horror and hardship and revived what it wanted to glorify.

Jamais ils ne comprendront que ce qu'on apporte, lorsqu'on a la gloire d'apporter quelque chose, déforme ce qu'on apprend.

Facts have a tendency to obscure the truth.

The philosophical grail to shine analytical light on the conceptual darkness only distorts the forms of life otherwise flourishing there.

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It's absurd. We run the risk of warping what's best in us

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

You give a press conference, and they'll pick one word, they'll pick two words. The media is still out to write what they want to write.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

The objectification of females is not a good thing! Not every rapper does this, but when the lyrics focus solely on the strip club, 'poppin' bottles' and how many girls they can 'tap,' it distorts what kids are learning. I think if there was more of a female presence in hip hop we could break up the monotony. It's all about balance.

High tax rates distort economic decision making, and our corporate income tax rate is one of the highest in the world.

We know that inflation distorts economic behavior. In the 1970s, a combination of high tax rates and inflation prompted investors to flee production in favor of protection.

If we think that high marginal tax rates are bad because they distort incentives, the same is then true for tax subsidies.

History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable.

Through the distorted lens of the thwarted intent to get it right, everything around these people begins to seem haphazard and careless. To add insult to injury, people seem to address these concerns with horrifyingly fuzzy words, like pretty much, and roughly, and probably. When sufficient intensity is reached, the behavior becomes increasingly pessimistic and perfectionistic. The Whiner, the No Person, the Judge, and the Nothing Person, all exemplify this kind of behavior.

that corrupted version is presented as something improved or enhanced — when, in fact, it is a "perverted" adaptation of what was originally intended.

The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.

A large part of what we identify as our personality is in fact a distorted view of who we really are due to the type of behavioral defenses we adopted to fit the role or roles we were forced to assume according to the dynamics of our family system.