Quotes of Projection - somelinesforyou

“ Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections. ”

- Malcom Forbes

“ Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone. ”

- George Eliot

“ If you look at the opportunities for economic growth within America, inner-city areas and rural areas, especially those that are heavily minority populated are a great opportunity for economic growth, because unemployment is high and the potential for consumer demand to grow is enormous… ”

- Bill Clinton

“ The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field. ”

- Earl Weaver

“ Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections. ”

- Malcolm Forbes

“ We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare. ”

- Uta Hagen

“ The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection. ”

- Carl Jung

“ Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done. ”

- Ben Stein

“ Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve. ”

- Ring Lardner

“ How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge! ”

- Ogden Nash

“ The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Love is the power within us that affirms and values another human being as he or she is. Human love affirms that person who is actually there, rather than the ideal we would like him or her to be or the projection that flows from our minds. Love is the inner god who opens our blind eyes to the beauty, value, and quality of the other person… ”

- Robert A. Johnson

“ I don't think there is anyone in any sport who combined the supreme talent with a great personality. He is also is one of the most beautiful people who ever walked the face of the earth. I don't think there's anybody who compares to Stan Musial on both fronts. ”

- Jack Buck

“ 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. ”

- Don Miguel Ruiz

“ In the field of marketing… the trend toward selling has reached something of a nadir with the unveiling… of so-called subliminal projection. That is the technique designed to flash messages past our conscious guard. ”

- Vance Packard

“ It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology. ”

- Alfred Loisy

“ I doubt whether it is possible to project a system of government in which a colony 3000 miles distant from the parent state shall enjoy all the liberty of the parent state. I am certain I have never yet seen the projection. ”

- Thomas Hutchinson

“ I don't see myself as an icon. I was very moved by the response to my book; it brought me into relationship with many people whom I otherwise would not have met. I also discovered that in becoming a public figure, I became a focus for all kinds of projections that had little to do with me. ”

- Carol Gilligan

“ The kingdom of God could be realized simply by daring to live differently from the normal conventions. The kingdom of God in the teachings of Jesus was not an apocalyptic or heavenly projection of otherworldly desire. It was driven by a desire to think that there must be a better way to live together than the present state of affairs… ”

- Burton L. Mack

“ Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence. ”

- Hannah Arendt

“ In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better. ”

- Paul Klee

“ In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent toward infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse-quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up. ”

- John Updike

“ Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their "evil" look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal savor the perverse or reflects upon it. ”

- Camille Paglia
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