Top 259 Projection Quotes & Sayings

Everything one sees is merely a projection of what one does not see, its true nature and substance.

Magic is the projection of natural energies to produce needed effects.

Aikido is based on the projection of love.

What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.

Every meaning is a projection of the viewer's inarticulate moods.

Above all, we must awaken to and overcome the great hidden anthropocentric projection that has virtually defined the modern mind: the pervasive projection of soullessness onto the cosmos by the modern self's own will to power.

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious

A toy car is a projection of a real car, made small enough for a child's hand and imagination to grasp. A real car is a projection of a toy car, made large enough for an adult's hand and imagination to grasp.

One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.

Our world does not exist from its own side--like a dream world, it is a mere appearance to our mind. In dreams we can see and touch our dream world, but when we wake up we realize that it is simply a projection of our mind and had no existence outside our mind. In the same way, the world we see when we are awake is simply a projection of our mind and has no existence outside our mind.

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

If it's the theatre and the stage that really interests you, you should work on your voice, develop its range and flexibility and most important of all - projection!

Anxiety projection can and does occur - in myth, in music, in fiction, and in the doctor's office too. That doesn't make it the basis of everything.

The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.

Every medium has its own projection, and I find animation is much bigger than normal.

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.

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.

Unlike flying or astral projection, walking through walls is an earthbound pursuit.

'Mad Men' doesn't capture one single thing about the decor, costumes, or sexual interaction. It is a total projection of contemporary snarky attitudes into the past.

My body is a projection of my consciousness.

If a shadow is a two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional world, then the three-dimensional world as we know it is the projection of the four-dimensional Universe.

One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire feature film with my camera. I could already picture the projection screen making itself visible as a white rectangle. In my imagination, this would appear as a glowing, white rectangle; it would come forward from the projection surface and illuminate the entire theater. This idea struck me as being very interesting, mysterious, and even religious.

What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.

An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.

The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.

We do. Or re-create the ones we have, and project. My whole life is projection.

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

Some people, they have the energy and projection that is good for theater. I don't have that.

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

Everything when you're a teenager is a projection. Or at least, for me, it was. 'Who am I gonna be?'

The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.

...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

Sometimes, a writer 'character' is just a projection of a person who is writing the story, but not necessarily 'me.'

On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.

Suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission.

A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash; often persuasive, almost always wrong.

A computer is not really like us. It is a projection of a very small part of ourselves: that portion devoted to logic, order, rule and clarity.

Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is, precisely, that of originality.

We do like digital projection. We like shooting on film, finishing digitally, and projection digitally. That's what I like best. It's still a movie. It's not someone's camcorder and it got projected. That's mean, I know.

Burzum is a projection of me or, at the very least, a projection of a side of me, but you can, of course, view Burzum and Varg as separate entities, as you surely can like the first and dislike the other, or vice versa for that sake, but to me, my music will always be a natural part of me.

The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious. We can see this most clearly if we look at the heavenly constellations, whose originally chaotic forms are organized through the projection of images. This explains the influence of the stars as asserted by astrologers. These influences are nothing but unconscious instrospective perceptions of the collective unconscious.

I'm really excited to put music out that is a clear projection of my lifestyle.

God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.

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

Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another.

There is a constant projection of stereotypes and 'saas-bahu' sagas that keep getting popular as opposed to some experimental storylines.

Hopefully with digital projection, a film will always look the way the filmmaker intended.

A man's attire is only an outward projection of his inward self.

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

Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

My responsibility is simply being who I am and not buying into any projection as real. No projection is finally real, but projection does play a very important role.

An interior is the natural projection of the soul.

The entire universe is just an expression, projection, of the Being, of the Self. Within this small body, you are able to experience the infinite space.

Religion and anger has gone together a lot, historically. My father, being very religious and angry, was trying to reconcile the ideas of love and forgiveness with damage in his own heart. We historically create God in the image of someone who will redeem us, or someone who has damaged us. A lot of my imaginations of God was a projection of my own damage because of my father. God is good but he has a lot of expectations, of which I have failed -- just like my dad. But I don't think it's truthful to create God as a projection of either our damage or our altruism.

At a certain point, the soul exits from a cherished photograph, because we have come to the end of our loving projection into that moment.