Distortion Of Reality Quotes

#1. If deliberate distortion of reality by corporate media could be effectively prosecuted in the United States, the entire industry would be behind bars.

Cynthia McKinney

#2. Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.

Dan Simmons

#3. A perfectly clear photograph is a distortion of reality.

David B. Lentz

#4. What is a lie? It's a distortion of reality, presented as reality.

James Patterson

#5. Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. TV in America created the most coherent reality distortion field that I've ever seen. Therein is the problem: People who vote watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch. Basically, what we have in this country is government by hallucinating mob.

John Perry Barlow

#7. I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.

John Podhoretz

#8. When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion.

Ayn Rand

#9. As Hoffman later lamented, The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits.

Joanna Hoffman

#10. It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths ... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.

Arthur Rothstein

#11. Steve has a reality distortion field." When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. "In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he's not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules.

Walter Isaacson

#12. They'll eat your heart alive Every time.

Jack Kerouac

#13. When our mind is calm, it reflects reality accurately, without distortion. Breathing, sitting, and walking with mindfulness calms disturbing mental formations such as anger, fear, and despair, allowing us to see reality more clearly.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#14. The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.

Annie Jacobsen

#15. And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one.

Ashley Judd

#16. It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

Nelson Rockefeller

#17. Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality ... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection ... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.

Jean Tinguely

#18. Love can sometimes be magic.
But magic can sometimes ... just be an illusion.

Javan

#19. Veteran colleagues at Apple used to call his "reality distortion field." Sometimes it was the inadvertent misfiring of memory

Walter Isaacson

#20. The core tenant of what I teach is there are no facts inside the building. When we come up with a new idea, we tend to slide into our own reality distortion field to convince ourselves and others. And that's not healthy.

Steve Blank

#21. I'm a teen distortion, survived abortion.

Marilyn Manson

#22. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

Kurt Vonnegut

#23. Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.

Loretta Young

#24. A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Doug Larson

#25. what can I say? Can't beat fictional boyfriends. They're the best. ***

Jo Raven

#26. A lot of men not only fear emotional pain, they are afraid to be transparent and vulnerable. To let an outsider even glimpse their confusion or suffering is a taboo that starts in adolescence and becomes more entrenched with adulthood.

Michael R. French

#27. But unlike people with psychotic conditions like schizophrenia, they are not going insane at all. They are, if anything, suddenly overly aware of reality and existence and of the ways in which their own experience is a distortion of a "normal" sense of a real self. Depersonalization,

Daphne Simeon