Quotes About Projection

That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal.

The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface.

woman is an eminently poetic reality since man projects onto her everything he is not resolved to be.

At a certain moment, the pain is lessened by projecting it into the universe, but the universe is impaired; the pain is more intense when it comes home again, but something in me does not suffer and remains in contact with a universe which is not impaired. - Simone Weil

One of the cruelest crimes of patriarchy has been to teach us to project our thoughts into a future that will never come (getting together our vitae and our five-year-plans) or focusing us back into a past that is only memories of a present, keeping us unaware of the locus of our power in the present moment and effectively imprisoning us in time.

One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.

More often than not others will project their own insecurities onto you when they are intimidated by your light. Don't listen to them, it's a reflection of the war they're battling within.

Everything you perceive, externally, is the manifestation of some internal part of you. If it was not, it would not be present in your perceived reality.

By most military experts' projections, Russia is a likely source of nuclear armaments for Jihadists.

When a person speculates about my identity, it reveals something about their own background and preferences. If the canvas is blank; the only thing people can see on its surface is themselves.

Mrs. Post had lain quietly down and switched off the bedside lamp. Her head was like a magic lantern into which slides were thrust noisily, one after the other.

What we cannot admit in ourselves we often find in others. If a person--who speaks of another person whom he hates with a vengeance that seems nearly irrational--can be brought to describe the characteristics which he most dislikes, you will frequently have a picture of his own repressed aspects which are unrecognized to him though obvious to others. -June Singer

Angels can't die yet I imagine it. A psychiatrist at that place once told me it was a projection. Like with movies. Light passes through the film and it gets bigger on the screen. I guess he was saying thought and faith have that kind of power. But he had no fucking idea who he was dealing with.

Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life.

Prince Charming, in truth, is nothing more than a projection of our disowned selves. He

I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office.

You have to recover the capacity to imagine yourself as an ideal and figure out how to project that into the world.

Life's harsh. You can't escape what you are and what you project.

A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera.

An actress projects herself exactly the way she wants to.

What writers, artists, scientists and philosophers say today is indicative of future rather than current developments

We have a tendency to imagine people the way we would like them to be.

What we experience is our state of mind projected outward.