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Quotes About Projection

Beauty — in projection and perceiving — is 99.9% attitude.
~ Grey Livingston
Anger only breeds more anger in return, it's an endless chain...Practicing self-control would take you a long way...and self-analysis would give you the insight to see that a person that snaps so easily uses projection to cover his own bullshit. A person with true strength of character, would take an issue at hand, weigh the facts, and act accordingly with a balanced mind...
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Paradoxically, our ability to see something of the Shadow within ourselves sharpens our capacity to recognize shadowy actions around us.
~ James Hollis
third choice was to strike off toward some new projection—a new job, a better (different) relationship, a seductive ideology, or sometimes to drift into some unconscious "self-treatment plan" such as an addiction or an affair.
~ James Hollis
What I cannot accept in myself, what I cannot handle in the complexity of the world, what I fear in you, often leads me to repress you if I can.
~ James Hollis
Where am I asking others to take responsibility for my life? Let's face it - we would all love to be taken care of. We all are recovering children who project the dynamics of intrapsychic parent onto an institution, an ideology ...Growing up is ever more difficult because it requires letting go of old expectations of rescue and redemption. We are it; this is it; this is as good as it gets, and we better deal with it.
~ James Hollis
Folk wisdom observes that lovers are fools, lovers are blind; we also speak of a folie a deux because in this mutually projective state, the person is acting not out of a conscious relationship to reality, but out of the archaic and often overwhelming power of personal history.
~ James Hollis
It is much easier to deny, blame others, project elsewhere, or bury it and just keep on rolling.
~ James Hollis
four categorical ways in which the Shadow manifests in our lives. They are found when the Shadow a) remains unconscious, albeit active in our lives; b) is disowned by being projected onto others; c) usurps consciousness by possessing us; or d) broadens consciousness through recognition, dialogue, and assimilation of its contents.
~ James Hollis
We must examine what we envy or dislike in others and acknowledge those very things in ourselves. This helps to prevent our blaming or envying others for what we have not done ourselves.
~ James Hollis, Ph.D.
I'm extremely unhappy with the projection of 'Tum' as a hot film. It's demeaning not just to me but to the producer and director.
~ Manisha Koirala
In the theatre, because you're all looking at the same thing in the same space, consciousness is no longer individual. There is a unified consciousness. Until you look and project what is happening, it doesn't exist; the audience are the ones making the theatre, not the players.
~ Simon McBurney
Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It's exotic to me. I like they way Asians project their feelings. There's a hardness to the culture, but at the same time there's a delicateness.
~ Paz Vega
By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
~ Barbara Demick
We are reflections of one another, therefore I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all projections of the universal principles of creation/destruction polarities of the same infinite consciousness that we call God.
~ David Icke
What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.
~ Kenneth Tynan
Men, through the ideas they have, project a field of attention that limits women.
~ Frederick Lenz
Because they dream so strongly in themselves, their superiority and women's inferiority, they project an image that a woman finds very, very difficult to fight against.
~ Frederick Lenz
It's everyday for a woman to project a very strong wave of sexual energy through her second attention into a man, for him to assume that the energy he feels is his own.
~ Frederick Lenz
The attention that's being projected by men who simply watch you walking down the street, in the office, or in bed, in most cases, is going to be extremely destructive.
~ Frederick Lenz
I do find it sometimes that people project their own feelings on to the characters and I think that there is a certain amount of sexism - I mean the proprietary nature, for men and women.
~ Matthew Weiner
Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.
~ Remy de Gourmont
Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Never look directly into the camera, stare off. Nobody wants to see those eyes, they want to see the bod.
~ Trisha Paytas