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Letter "P" » projection
«A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.»
Author: Pam Brown
| About:
Dreams,
Horses
| Keywords:
capability, escape, escape from, existence, giving, horse, mundane, peoples, powerful, projection, projections
«Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.»
«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 who savors the perverse or reflects upon it.»
Author: Camille Paglia
| Keywords:
amoral, autocrat, autocrats, consciously, immoral, perverse, projection, projections, reflects, savoring, savors, self interest
«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.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
accident, automatic, destroys, For Better or Worse, frame, occurrences, pattern, prediction, predictions, procedures, processes, projection, projections, unexpected
«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.»
Author: Paul Klee
(Artist)
| Keywords:
analysis, dimensions, drawing, draw the line, execution, Final Analysis, imaginary, in the final analysis, lines, Long line, profoundly, projection, projections, self sufficient, symbol
«As if we can ever imagine the past, future, life on other planets, everything is such an extension, such a projection of life as we know it.»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
extension, planets, projection, projections
«I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
genuine, irrespective, misunderstood, projection, projections
«Everyone wants happiness; nobody wants to suffer. Many problems around us are a mental projection of certain negative or unpleasant things. If we analyze our own mental attitude, we may find it quite unbearable. Therefore, a well-balanced mind is very useful and we should try and have a stable mental state.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
analyze, balanced, negative, projection, projections, stable, unbearable, unpleasant, well-balanced
«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»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Youth
| Keywords:
admiration, admires, fails, hero, intoxicate, intoxicated, intoxicates, intoxicating, of his own, projection, projections
«Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Hell
| Keywords:
figures, projection, projections
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