Quotes About Distortion

Recognition of one's fellows is distorted when money is prioritized as value itself.

It's the beauty in her, But when the makeup occur, I don't see it, All i see is a blur

Narcissists only play for their own business, whereas Distortionists play with other's business only to gain personal advantage. If you are both, then you aren't an entrepreneur.

one half of his face drooping lower than the other, as if it had melted like a Dalí watch.

The first thing that went wrong, according to Fat, had to do with the radio. Listening to it one night- he had not been able to sleep for a long time- he heard the radio saying hideous words, sentences which it could not be saying. Beth, being asleep, missed that. So that could have been Fat's mind breaking down; by then his psyche was disintegrating at a terrible velocity. Mental illness is not funny.

L'immagine che abbiamo l'uno dell'altro. Strati e strati d'incomprensione. L'immagine che abbiamo di noi stessi. Vana. Presuntuosa. Completamente distorta. Ma noi tiriamo dritto e viviamo di queste immagini. «Lei è così, lui è così, io sono così. È andata così per questi motivi…» Basta.

After pausing, the student continues: "There's also an element of believing something because you want it to happen." This betrays a second bias in which we believe what we want to be true. This is a form of confirmation bias, which exacerbates the distorting effect of availability bias. We seek out information that confirms our existing beliefs or desires, and ignore information that refutes them.

State interventions in markets (once created) must be kept to a bare minimum because, according to the theory, the state cannot possibly possess enough information to second-guess market signals (prices) and because powerful interest groups will inevitably distort and bias state interventions (particularly in democracies) for their own benefit.

Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.

his voice was high and strange, as if it had been recorded and was now being played back at a faster speed.

With an arena, it sounds so big and full sometimes it can obstruct the way we sing because we're hearing so much slapback and things like that.

In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil's face.

En el distorsionador espejo de tu mente, puede que un ángel parezca tener la cara de un diablo.

Now the fact is that social harmony and mental balance are essentials, just like food or other nutritions. But to glamorise these things and to distort their functions is to show lack of knowledge.

Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is what she has made of my life.

Return to church do I when the ways of this world distort my perceptions.

The image of pollution suggests bringing together what ought to be kept apart. To pollute soil, air, or water is to blend into them foreign materials — machine oil, for example — so that these natural resources no longer nourish or delight very well. Similarly, the introduction of a third lover into a marriage or an idol into the natural human relation to God adds a foreign agent to them; it corrupts these entities by addition.

There was no time to weigh chances. There was no such thing as chances anyway, in the distorted perspective of the weed fumes.

Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193

The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth.

I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That's where we're heading. And it'll cut out a lot of music if people ever expected to make money.

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

With general relativity, we know that before gravity can act, spacetime has to deform. This process does not happen instantaneously. It takes time. Gravity waves travel at the speed of light. Gravitational effects can kick in at a given position only after the time it takes for a signal to travel there and distort spacetime.

Iubirea e banal?. Î?i provoac? o intoxica?ie chimic? foarte asem?n?toare cu aceea dat? de o reu?it? mult a?teptat? sau de mersul cu mare vitez?. În acele momente, nu mai ?inem cont de nimic ?i ne concentr?m doar asupra propriei noastre delect?ri; via?a de zi cu zi ne este distorsionat? ?i devenim ira?ionali: ne sim?im ferici?i ?i ni se pare c? totul este posibil.