Distorted Views Quotes

#1. In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality.

Tom Peters

#2. Divine Intelligence working through me always knows just what I need and always supplies it when I need it.

Ernest Holmes

#3. Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

Oswald Chambers

#4. Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning.

Katsuki Sekida

#5. The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth.

Craig Groeschel

#6. What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were scared people.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#7. Gin a body meet a body
Flyin' through the air,
Gin a body hit a body,
Will it fly? and where?

James Clerk Maxwell

#8. A hobby is the result of a distorted view of things. It is putting a planet in the place of a sun.

John Lancaster Spalding

#9. My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.

Robert Kennedy

#10. I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.

James Buchanan

#11. I think healthy competition is good for business, and really at the end best for end-users. Just think about what Android would have been if it was not for iPhone - a better blackberry?

Jack Levin

#12. At his words, the good butterflies trounced the bad butterflies and the bad ones retreated to Siberia.

Kristen Ashley

#13. Impatience can be very good by helping us not put up with tyranny, but it can distort our view of what is possible and how to bring about change. We have to cultivate patience so that our perception isn't distorted.

Paul Ekman

#14. I sometimes get a distorted view of how quickly humans are evolving, because I meet many people who are evolving beyond ego. Then I have to switch on the TV to realize, "Oh, no, it is not happening to everybody yet." But it is happening.

Eckhart Tolle

#15. Life is a pilgrimage of learning, a voyage of discovery, in which our mistaken views are corrected, our distorted notions adjusted, our shallow opinions deepened and some of our vast ignorances diminished.

John R.W. Stott

#16. I think there is a misunderstanding about Indians' traditional views. India did send army into Goa, India did send an army into and fought a war in Kashmir in 1948, India did get Hyderabad by force ... I think the narrow projection on the international ... arena distorted India's image.

Subramanian Swamy