Quotes About Projection

Nothing would be regarded as obscene, I feel, if men were living out their inmost desires. What man dreads most is to be faced with the manifestation, in word or deed, of that which he has refused to live out, that which he has throttled or stifled, buried as we say now, in his subconscious mind. The sordid qualities imputed to the enemy are always those which we recognize as our own and therefore rise to slay, because only through projection do we realize the enormity and horror of them.

I talk too quiet, and I have to yell on stage.

Very much as men project weird fantasies on women, the people in New York project weird fantasies on California.

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

I would walk into a room at a young age and I'd say, 'Hi, Dad,' and he would say, 'SON, PROJECT YOUR VOICE. LET THEM KNOW YOU'RE IN THE ROOM. SHOULDERS BACK. CHEST OUT.'

I'm always the last person in the world who would ever try to predict a trend.

Art is an imagination, projection, and reflection of the mind in a particular form that society can internalize and enjoy.

The truth of who you are and what you believe is projected in your behavior. Everything else, either positive or negative, is a mix of stories, lies, delusions, and manipulations.

The ultimate relationship is within thyself, knowing that all other relationships are a projection or a reflection of our ability or inability to love.

I imagine that people see me as they would see me if I were the man that I want to be.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

people often act in a way that provokes precisely the reactions they are expecting. These

we all tend to criticize in others what we are most insecure about in ourselves.

There's nothing more tantalizing than looking at a flickering a film projected on a wall, trying to find details in the grainy shadows and digging through secret locked files and looking for evidence, looking for some nugget of information that's never been revealed before.

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.

If you can see the shape of things to come,' he says, 'and then put yourself into what you see, you will find yourself there.

Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about.

The tragedy is that what you disapprove of in others is the very thing you disapprove of in yourself.

We can only find those faults in others that already exist within us, and the same goes for those things we admire about them.

It's the reason we become enamored of certain singers, I think, because they project the voice we wish to summon within ourselves. His

I'm clearly doing what I want. I hope kids can see my act and feel like they can be slightly more comfortable in their own skin because I'm being so ridiculously comfortable in mine. I'm not that comfortable in my skin the moment I walk offstage. But I try to project that while I'm on it.

As an entrepreneur and a small business owner, you are intimately familiar with goals. You've dreamed of the 'right' ones, you've projected 'real' ones for the banker and the investor, and, secretly, you've imagined how life can be if you can reach the ones you've set.

A computer is not really like us. It is a projection of a very small part of ourselves: that portion devoted to logic, order, rule and clarity.

I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.