Quotes About Distortion

I grew up in front of the camera from an early age. It distorts your perception of who you are. Having a lot of attention at a young age is not healthy.

I really like iZotope Trash, which is a great plug-in for distortion, as is Ohmicide, which I love. It's an absolutely crazy multiband distortion, compression, EQ and filter, which pretty much lets you do anything.

I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your real problems might be in life, they come back in a deformed way.

There are many things that have distorted the person inside you from what you were created to be

With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.

The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions of the world.

Ignorance is not merely a deficiency of knowledge but, in addition, it positively apprehends reality in a distinctive way. And being a distorted mode of conception, it creates a view of the world that is in opposition to, and in conflict with, the actual way the world is.

primary distortion in my dharma life has been the age-old misery of self-absorption.

Marcos Axiom — everything said is the opposite of the facts

The first Elizabeth film was an absolute travesty historically. It really was sloppy. Things like 'The Other Boleyn Girl' and 'The Tudors,' people's perception is distorted because of these. It matters to me as a historian, because I spend my life trying to get it right.

I myself am more ready to distort a fine saying in order to patch it on to me than to distort the thread of my argument to go in search of one. [A]

Forgiveness is God-focused, not offense-focused. The reconciliation that forgiveness brings is between you and God. Distortion of your understanding of forgiveness affects your pure and powerful relationship with the Lord. The issue of unforgiveness is killing your peace, stealing your relationship with the Lord, and eroding your very life.

As the years progress and we experience more and more, the mini-narratives that make up our lives are distorted, corrupted, so that every one of us is left with a false history, a self-created fiction about the live we have led. pg 163

At rest, we know that its circumference is equal to p times the diameter. Once the merry-go-round is set into motion, however, the outer rim travels faster than the interior and hence, according to relativity, should shrink more than the interior, distorting the shape of the merry-go-round. This means that the circumference has shrunk and is now less than p times the diameter; that is, the surface is no longer flat. Space is curved.

Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what degree of distortion does a beloved person still remain a beloved person? For how long does a cherished face growing remote through illness, through madness, through hatred, through death still remain recognizable? Where is the border beyond which a self ceases to be a self?

Le malade souffre de la déformation masochiste de sa mémoire

I love a little distortion across the bass; I think it kind of adds something to the sound of the band when the bass is a little overdriven.

I love the Tea Party. They are the ultimate beer goggles. They make everything look better.

In case after case in the past, there is a kind of Bible-quoting intoxication under the influence of which we religious people lose the ability to distinguish between what God says and what we say God says.

Todas las emociones, especialmente aquellas que son negativas, distorsionan las evaluaciones. Una persona en las garras de una emoción negativa es incapaz de pensar clara o racionalmente. Cuanto más intensa es la emoción negativa, más se desapega el sujeto de la realidad y es incapaz de razonar con claridad. Por lo mismo, habla y actúa de una manera que a menudo es inexplicable y completamente destructiva.

I believe the word used wrongly distorts the world.

until the image itself has grown distorted past all recognition save that of memory

History, like memories themselves, tended to become distorted with the passing of time, or worse, corrupted with the agendas of those writing it.

He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind him and shouting at him.