Quotes About Projection

We carefully observe and watch the happenings of the entire world without realizing they are projections of our inner selves.

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

one could sit back with a bag of popcorn and watch the romances and comedies of his mind projected onto his face, and the lenses of his tortoiseshell glasses swirled with his thoughts like the iridescent membranes of soap bubbles.

I think all love is one-third projection and one-third acceptance and never more than one-third knowledge and insight.

It's not hard to figure out who has the power in any large gathering in our mediated culture: they are the ones with a microphone, their image projected larger than life above the crowd.

It is a human tendency to become what you attack.

By the end of that first day, the advance landing forces at Gallipoli had already suffered nearly four thousand casualties, or considerably more than the total number of men Lawrence had projected would be needed to secure Alexandretta.

I'll tell him I astral-projected. Butt-head.

and because it is characteristic of our mind to project confusion and darkness where we have nothing but uncertainty.

All its dimensions with their projected geometries are those of an unrealisible dream.

I remember a friend of mine once telling me that we hate what we fear in ourselves

When people see you on the screen, you become bigger than life.

We do. Or re-create the ones we have, and project. My whole life is projection.

We look at a person and see the person we want to see. I've had to deal with that my whole life, walking in a room and girls thinking I'm going to steal their boyfriends!

Don't trust a guy who accuses you of infidelity. He's cheating. He's projecting. If you're living that kind of life, you think everybody else is too.

The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.

The need to project an image of power at the expense of one's true feelings is characteristic of narcissistic personalities.

it may be said unequivocally that whenever anyone is in extremis (whether it is a marital crisis, an economic crisis, a political crisis, or a health crisis), their chances of survival are far greater when their horizons are formed of projected images from their own imagination rather than being limited by what they can actually see.

Forse era vero, ciò che di Bianca mi sembrava antipatico era solo il riflesso dell'antipatia che provavo per me.

brigitte wants to have her future made. she cannot produce it herself.

Simply put, the DSM is a highly constructed projection placed on top of particular body-mind experiences in order to label, organize, and make meanings of them from within a specific worldview.

Unscrupulous leaders can manipulate this mechanism in whole populations. Adolf Hitler, for example, repeatedly described the Jews as Untermenschen (subhumans) and through the skilful use of propaganda was able to induce enough Germans to project their shadow on to them as to make the Holocaust possible. The

He had so little experience, or so little capacity for real introspection, he didn't imagine the guilt and anguish lying in wait; he didn't even ask himself what Judith Biely might be feeling. She didn't exist for him in an autonomous, complete way but only as a projection of his own desire

A big competition is going on not to be better than oneself who was yesterday but to project oneself good without being actually nice and a person adjudged the best in this contest is often seen garnering a huge support from the people.