Quotes About Distorted

yet still I crave the sight of my own hypnotic gaze reflecting out at me from the shared mirror of anorexia and bulimia, number to life and reality, existing only in my self-made tortured state

When we have distorted and painful images of men and masculinity, more often than not we find ourselves in dysfunctional relationships with all forms of power and authority.

The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view

For the vulnerability pattern, that philosophy offers a corrective for the distorted perception of the schema lens, which panics about everything, including what cannot be changed.

The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.

But like a lot of theologies it can do duty as a cracked mirror or a smudged lens through which we might be able to glimpse things that are informative.

how far history is distorted by the dubious benefit of hindsight.

I spent much of that year trying to imagine a future distorted by war.

Real-time feedback and coaching promotes learning. When feedback is connected to compensation, feedback is muted, distorted, and given less frequently.

Even when they are geniuses in spite of it, their masterpieces are invariably warped.

She heard Stefan's voice. "Elena! Let go! Fall and I'll catch you!" How strange, Elena thought, as if in a dream. His love and panic had distorted his voice somehow - making him sound different. Making him sound almost like- "Elena! I'm with you!" -like Damon. Shaken out of her dream, Elena looked below her. And there was Damon, standing protectively in front of Meredith, looking up at her, with his arms held out. He was with her.

In order to express the reality of my past, I would have to reach a public whose point of reference was deliberately distorted through social engineering.

If you are not aware of what you believe and not aware that you have a choice about what you believe, then your life will be shaped by those mistaken and limiting beliefs, and you will be a passive recipient of the results of those beliefs rather than a conscious co-creator of your life. In these pages, we will explore ways of moving beyond any distorted perceptions of reality that may have developed as a result of your beliefs to a truer, clearer, perception of reality.

Generations of accumulated misunderstanding between these two continental giants has so far led to three major Asian wars that have left millions dead and has distorted U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy.

The problem remains that the market is grossly distorted by Canadian unfair trade practices.

Human love is created with some capacity, however distorted, to love God and to love creatures through God.

Most things that declare the glory of God can be perverted to worship.

Your perception is all fucked up," Brandy says. "All you can talk about is trash that's already happened.

Man is subordinate to certain absolute values; there is no delight in the human form leading to its natural reproduction; it is always distorted to fit the more abstract forms which convey intense religious emotion.

Blake's face distorted in surprise and worry, that of a man stumbling into a kingdom of hornets.

Generally, we associate groupthink with a distorted and failed policy process. It is important to note that this process develops out of certain group dynamics and is not a conscious process. A process is not a technique! Groups do not decide to use group-think.

Where is the proof, said I, that daemons may not be subjected to the control of men? This truth may be distorted and debased in the minds of the ignorant. The dogmas of the vulgar, with regard to this subject, are glaringly absurd; but though these may justly be neglected by the wise, we are scarcely justified in totally rejecting the possibility that man may obtain supernatural aid.

Distorted reasoning—which may take the form of rationalizing and justifying bizarre or unusual forms of behavior and relations—can be immature and can also produce core beliefs about life upon which even more distorted reasoning is based. For example, "he is only hitting me because he loves me.

The Apocalypse of Peter, the risen Jesus calls Literalist Christianity an 'imitation church' in place of the true Christian brotherhood of the Gnostics. From the Gnostics' point of view, it was the Literalists who had distorted true Christianity.