Quotes About Projection

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

The love we seek is inside ourselves. When we project that love onto others, it comes back to us.

Your eyes are like a mirror... and what you see in me is a reflection of you.

Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values.

Seldom are your critics actually disappointed with you. They are usually disappointed with themselves, their circumstances, or God. You are simply a convenient target. Wayne Cordeiro

A symbol is not something arbitrarily chosen by man to illustrate a higher reality; it does so precisely because it is rooted in that reality, which has projected it, like a shadow or a reflection, onto the plane of earth.

The Bureaus of Prisons in states across America know this well; many of them project the number of prison beds they will need in the future based on third- or fourth-grade reading statistics.

The energy of our every thought, action, or word, once it has been projected, lasts eternally without disappearing.

It is instructive to note that different cultures "discovered" completely different constellations in the sky, a fact that is more consistent with the idea that constellations are a whimsical projection of the human mind than a reflection of astronomic reality.

I just want to escape my own body and project sunlight on to the walls for her to see, so she warms up and yearns for my arms.

J'avais connu la joie "longue focale" de la projection. La grande aventure d'une certaine normalité. L'ordre des choses. Les plans de chimie amusante, celle qui changeait les rêves d'enfant en rêves d'avoir des enfant

as was so often the case with anger, it was really just fear projecting outwards. The society was nothing – it had no

If you don't work on yourself, then much of your politics is merely projections. We have to walk our talk and do the inner work that allows the outer work to be authentic and also effective.

Though the 'Thou' is not an 'It', it is also not "another 'I'". He who treats a person as "another 'I'" does not really see that person but only a projected image of himself. Such a relation, despite the warmest "personal" feeling is really 'I'-'It'.

The world is inseparable from the subject, but from a subject which is nothing but a project of the world, and the subject is inseparable from the world, but from a world which the subject itself projects.

Esthesiological body and erotic body in a relation of intercorporeality in the biosphere with all animality and by introjection & projection.

The body as the power of empathy is already desire, libido, projection - introjection, identification. The esthesiological structure of the human body is thus a libidinal structure, the perception of a mode of desire, a relation of being and not of knowledge...What is the I of desire? It is obviously the body,

When I am listening, it is not necessary that I have an auditory perception of the articulated sounds but that the conversation pronounces itself within me. It summons me and grips me; it envelops and inhabits me to the point that I cannot tell what comes from me and what from it. Whether speaking or listening, I project myself into the other person, I introduce him into my own self.

Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids are. They don't like what we write for them, what we dish up for them, because it's vapid, so they'll go for the hard words, they'll go for the hard concepts, they'll go for the stuff where they can learn something. Not didactic things, but passionate things.

Trying to think inside Finn's head was like committing what our English master called Pathetic Fallacy, the attribution of human emotions to boulders or trees.

You know what people do when they have to face something uncomfortable? They blame the thing that makes them feel bad, even if it's not that thing's fault.

If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of "danger" on the floor around them. Look, it's "danger", don't step in it!

Man projects his wounds upon the world, my friend. He judges everything, and in the judging he reveals himself.