Quotes About Projection

we believe others are capable of the worst we ourselves are capable of

It wasn't that I didn't believe in the tree's power. But I believed in the power of human imagination more, of projecting our dreams and wishes into a safe space where we could place our disappointments if they didn't come true.

My stage projection's a puppet; I could moon the crowd and the projectors would compensate and make it look like I'd bowed.

Camus had said in his 'Carnets' that the lives of others appear always, from the outside, to have a completion our own dismally lacks. Only when we understand this as a projection - that our lives, too, are unclosed and contingent - do we approach maturity. Alice felt immature. She felt that she was a spy in the cold.

That what you manifest is before you

that which we manifest is before us;

Whatever we think about others is really like sending a message about ourselves to our self. So

That's why everything you think about others is really a message from you, to you, about you. And that's how your unconscious mind will think of it. So you definitely don't want to think of people as illusions, or that's what you'll think you are, too.

As he puts it in the Course, you are "reviewing mentally what has gone by."16 By the way, could there be a better definition of watching a movie? It's already been filmed, and it's already over and done with. And now you're watching it. And part of what you're watching is your own body! Your body is just a part of the same projection as all those other bodies you see.

La proyección es la acción psicológica consistente en negar el miedo y las motivaciones inconscientes y después traspasar esos miedos y motivaciones a los demás. Tenga cuidado de no proyectar sus sentimientos ocultos en otras personas o de atribuirles intenciones y propósitos cuando no los tienen. Esa distorsión de la realidad le hace daño a usted y se lo hace también al otro.

where a patient projects his feelings about his parents into other relationships, particularly the one he has with his therapist—be explained by examining the function of the brain?

The brain is a meaning-making machine, always trying to make sense of the world. If our view of the world is that people are good, then we will anticipate good things from people. We project that expectation in our interactions with others and thereby actually elicit good from them. Our internal view of the world becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; we project what we expect, and that helps elicit what we expect.

people. We project that expectation in our interactions with others and thereby actually elicit good from them. Our internal view of the world becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; we project what we expect, and that helps elicit what we expect.

Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy to project themselves as this or that, dedicating their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than actualizing their potentiality as a human being, a sort of "being" vs. having—that is, we do not "have" mind, we are simply mind. We are what we are.

And the next time you choose to project into my dreams, do keep your clothes on." He smiled. It was a very male, self-aware smile, not just sexual but carnal. The predatory look in his eyes turned ravaging. I felt the need to grab a napkin and hold it in front of me like a shield. "I can project, but I would have to be next to you to do it." Oh crap.

Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.

I love reading about ghosts, near-death experiences, astral projection - which is when you leave your body.

You have to work with your body when you dance; you can't shy away from your physicality. For me, it's really linked to an incandescent way of accepting yourself and projecting. The dancing was at the core from the beginning.

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself.

It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

Ever since I was 15, I've tried to act and talk as if I was a public figure because I was sure that I would be one day and wanted to be prepared.

The West has demonstrated its ability in the past to project power and move troops to distant regions.

I think a lot of people are projecting their own troubles and fears concerning sexuality onto those around them, and it does result in the perpetuation of a lot of hateful notions. As long as I can remember, I've felt really horrified watching those dynamics play out.