Quotes About Projection

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.

Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen.

Needless to say none of this makes much sense within the modern worldview brought to us by Western science, whose "governing assumption," in philosopher Richard Tarnas's words, is that "any meaning the human mind perceives in the universe does not exist intrinsically in the universe but is projected onto it by the human mind" (Tarnas 2006).

Image is a projection of how a company would like to be understood by customers; identity is the reality of what a company delivers as experienced by customers

To me the ideal film - which I've never succeeded in making - would be as though the reel were behind one's eyes and you were projecting it yourself, seeing what you wish to see. This has a great deal in common with thought processes ... That's why I think the camera is an eye as well as a mind. Everything we do with the camera has physiological and mental significance.

For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government.

We discover that every state of consciousness arises—and can only arise—within ourselves. One and the same event can provoke one person to laughter, another to tears, while a third remains completely indifferent; all because each is merely projecting outwardly his own inward attitude, and it is only this inward attitude which provokes our response, not the external events themselves.

In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.

Nos enamoramos, en realidad, de la imagen del amor que tenemos en la cabeza, proyectando ahí los libros leídos, el cine que hemos visto. Incluyendo nuestros sueños, deseos, tristezas y alegrías…

When the curtain goes up, it's ours. It's ours to project what the playwright wants to stay to an audience, what to convey and to get a response from the audience immediately. Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six months after they're finished. So you never get a sense of whether they're really well liked or how good they are. And you don't really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it's a director's medium.

When you're in a theater, it's about reaching the back rows. When you have a camera in your face, it's just about knowing the size of the room.

As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended up annoying many.

It was only in 'Khadgam' that I learnt to project myself and carry off an image of a celebrity, which is very different from what I am in real life.

I guess a lot of people don't realise, but I'm always playing a character when I'm working. When you're always having people's images projected on you, who 'Daria' is as a person sort of disappears.

It's only when I faced the camera that I realised how confident I was on screen!

It'd be awesome if you could see an actual player's faces projected onto an in-game character in a multiplayer game. Imagine how realistic that would feel.

Expectations are not based on reality. They are observations, expected realities, or beliefs of what you think will happen. Expectations of others stop us from acting as our highest selves and reaching our full potential.

I think that in making a genre movie, you have a really great opportunity to use abstraction to allow the audience to project their own experiences of the world into this thing. That's kind of what art is kind of all about.

Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.

What we dislike in others is often a weakness in our own lives.

All of us, I suppose, when we think we are talking most intimately to someone else, are actually addressing an image we have of the person to whom we believe we speak.

The U.N.'s current projection is that humanity will number 9.3 billion individuals in 2050 and then hit 10.1 billion by 2100. Meanwhile, our energy resources are dwindling, and droughts threaten our food supplies.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens.