Quotes About Distortion

I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy.

The constant refrain that bringing our troops home would demonstrate a lack of support for them must be one of the most amazing distortions ever foisted on the American public.

Hope clouds observation.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity we should not distort it.

Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.

In a crooked mind even the right thing gets crooked.

Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man's worst selfish instincts.

Traumatic experiences are so powerful that they often affect your entire worldview. It's like wearing glasses that distort your vision.

Dead girls in the rear-view mirror may appear more real than they are.

Sometimes you have to distort reality, to warp it back into normalcy. - Jason Culverhouse

The more people you have between your customers' words and the people doing the work, the more likely it is that the message will get lost or distorted along the way.

Cuando han pasado muchos años, o incluso no tantos, la gente se cuenta los hechos como le conviene y llega a creerse su propia versión, su distorsión.

Cuando han pasado muchos años, o incluso no tantos, la gente se cuenta los hechos como le conviene y llega a creerse su propia versión, su distorsión. Con

É a horrível força do presente, que esmaga o passado tanto quanto o distancia, e que além disso o falseia sem que o passado possa abrir a boca, nem protestar nem contradizê-lo nem refutar-lhe seja o que for.

Het is de verschrikkelijke kracht van het heden, dat het verleden meer veplettert naarmate het zich er verder van verwijdert, en het bovendien vervalst zonder dat het verleden zijn mond kan opendoen, protesteren, tegenspreken of iets weerleggen

Our lives are often a continuous betrayal and denial of what came before, we twist and distort everything as time passes, and yet we are still aware, however much we deceive ourselves, that we are the keepers of secrets and mysteries, however trivial.

Aceptar no significa conformarse. Se acepta para permitir que la información, tal cual es, sin distorsiones, pueda ser codificada, elaborada y transformada. La única forma de depurar un proceso es aceptándolo, primero, y esto es válido también, sobre todo, para el procesamiento cerebral de la información y para el logro de una unificación adecuada de la misma.

If our perception of God's character is distorted due to our own experiences of life's disappointments and our own histories of trauma, then having an all-seeing and always-present God could be stifling and produce fear instead of love and trust.

So you see and judge the present through the eyes of the past and get a totally distorted view of it.

occur. I have noticed with concern, for example, that not only certain politicians, but also some commentators in respectable publications are increasingly portraying Russia and/or China as the "enemy." Thoughts can spread like a virus, and if thoughts proliferate in the collective psyche, they distort our perceptions and cause us to act as if they were true, and so subsequently they manifest as our reality.

It is your conscious Presence that breaks the identification with the pain-body. When you don't identify with it, the pain-body can no longer control your thinking and so cannot renew itself anymore by feeding on your thoughts. The pain-body in most cases does not dissolve immediately, but once you have severed the link between it and your thinking, the pain-body begins to lose energy. Your thinking ceases to be clouded by emotion; your present perceptions are no longer distorted by the past.

The people who take society as an escape from work are putting it to its proper use; but when it becomes the thing worked for it distorts all the relations of life.