Quotes About Projection

We are all expressions of our own minds, projected onto the world.

Children are particularly vulnerable to becoming the targets of the projection of our nonconscious emotions and unresolved issues.

Without such refined awareness on our part, we may project a feeling of impending chaos or rigidity onto our clients, inappropriately try to move them to their safe place in an attempt to keep them in the window, and directly give them the sense that they, too, are unable to tolerate whatever feeling or memory is emerging at the time. This

It's not an anti-sex trip. Like, we're taking sex, which is probably another half of American entertainment, sex and violence, and we're projecting it, and we're saying this is the way everything is right now.

The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.

Sometimes when we don't like our feelings, we toss them to others like a hot potato.

Projective identification is like tossing a hot potato to the other person. The man no longer has to feel his anger, since it's now living inside his partner.

We tend to think that the future happens later, but we're creating it in our minds every day.

Les femmes portent les marques, le langage et les nuances de leur culture plus que les hommes. Tout ce qui est désiré ou détesté est projeté sur le corps féminin.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

The personality of God is thus the means by which man converts the qualities of his own nature into the qualities of another being, - a being external to himself. The personality of God is nothing else than the projected personality of man.

Man … projects his being into objectivity. … [T]hen … makes himself an object to this projected image of himself[.]

In psychoanalytical theory there is a phenomenon called transference. The therapist becomes a blank screen, onto which the patient projects some incident or feeling that began in childhood... it would not be a far reach for someone to look at my feelings for Jess and assume that, in the context of our relationship as tutor and pupil, I am not in love. I'm just in transference.

Every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.

every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.

High school is the time of puberty. And puberty is a time of intense exposure and vulnerability. Whatever toxic shame a person carries from childhood will be tested in high school. Often teenage groups look for a scapegoat, someone everyone can dump and project their shame onto. This was Arnold's fate. He was viciously shamed by his female peer group. This accounted for his problem with women.

When you realize that people treat you according to how they see themselves rather than how you really are, you are less likely to be affected by their behavior.

German poet Herman Hesse wrote, "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." I agree with his viewpoint.

The way people see others is a reflection of themselves: If I am a trusting person, I will see others as trustworthy. If I am a critical person, I will see others as critical. If I am a caring person, I will see others as compassionate.

When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are.

Everyone creates what he fears.

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

Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream.

Ono što vjerujete o sebi projicirate na druge ljude i to je ono što drugi vjeruju o vama. Dakako, i oni se prema vama ponašaju u skladu s tim, što samo daje snagu vašem uvjerenju da niste vrijedni. A što je istina? Istina je da jeste vrijedni: svatko je vrijedan.