Quotes About Distorted

Bhartrihari has to confront the horror of human existence. We can never know everything and we can never be sure. All information is incomplete, and all readings distorted by personal prejudice. And yet we have to take decisions all the time and hope the results favour us.

But the individual may use the capacity for mentalization in self-serving ways, either to control, seduce, or coerce others by anticipating their needs, or to avoid painful realities that do not converge with their distorted self concept. Bateman and Fonagy (2016) termed this process as hyper- or overactive mentalization.

The insane person or the dreamer fails completely in having an objective view of the world outside; but all of us are more or less insane, or more or less asleep; all of us have an unobjective view of the world, one which is distorted by our narcissistic orientation.

A pessoa insana, ou o sonhador, falha completamente em ter uma visão objetiva do mundo exterior; mas todos nós somos mais ou menos insanos, ou mais ou menos adormecidos; todos nós temos uma visão não objetiva do mundo, falseada pela nossa orientação narcisista.

I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.

I won't do any print interviews anymore. No matter what I say, it gets distorted.

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.

What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.

'Carol' is so distorted by point-of-view.

You only have one thing in your mind, and that is your mind; once that's gone, your whole reality is distorted.

It's religion that killed our King, you know what I'm saying - that religious idea that has distorted the love of God, and now the world doesn't want it. They don't want religion. They want Jesus in their heart. They want Him. They just don't want the religion.

I think a lot of magazine covers are heavily photoshopped and bodies are distorted to look a certain way.

I'll be on another case soon. You won't need me anymore. You'll be walking, though I think you should wait a while before climbing another mountain. You're my therapist, Blake snapped. Dione gave a little laugh. For months you've depended on me more than any other person in your life. Your perspective is distorted now. Believe me, by the time I've been gone a month, you won't even think about me. 'Do you mean you'd just turn your back on me and walk away? he asked disbelievingly.

one of those dreadful boarding schools. It was down on the South Coast. I think some very unpleasant things happened there…. So many lives were distorted by such cruelty. I know so many men who had to put up with that, so many….

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Terrible letters came to me. Letters from strange people; people whom I never believed lived in the world; depraved and distorted minds, thinking they saw in me the perfect companion, a fellow psychopathic.

we limit ourselves to normal cases of mutual influence, we find that those people are most capable of being influenced who are most amenable to reason and logic, those whose social feeling has been least distorted. On the contrary, those who thirst for superiority and desire domination are very difficult to influence. Observation teaches us this fact every day.

During the interim, no matter how much agony the man may feel, he also experiences excitement, the excitement of learning how to cope with a closed society that reflects free society as a funhouse mirror reflects the human form: everything is there, but distorted.

People are pursuing happiness, but they're pursuing things that will never, ever make them happy, and they don't know that. They've got a distorted view of what will make them happy, what happiness is, and it's based on what they see on television.

it looks worn to them in the mirror... almost not wearable at all.

For me, addiction exposes all of the brain mechanism under the influence of a profoundly distorted primary motivation. It's such a window into how we function as human beings. And the patient doesn't know that's happening! Doesn't believe that's happening! That's the fascinating part.

Eastwood was distorted for me, a picturesque place meant to lull its residents into believing that behind our gates and beyond our curfew, nothing bad could ever happen with any sort of permanence. It was a place so fatally flawed that it refused to acknowledge that any such imperfection was possible.

He's nothing but a deformed emanation of energy.

I can see, I can see that it is in this distorted vision of the world's proper proportions that lies the secret of our fears. We make the animals bigger with our fears. We make our creations and our loves smaller, we shrink by our vision, and enlarge and shrink according to the whims of our interchangeable vision, not according to an immutable law of growth. The size of each world we live in is individual and relative, and the objects and people vary in each EYE.