Distortion Quotes · Page 2

“Shindana na wenzako kuwa juu zaidi katika tasnia uliyojichagulia.”

— Enock Maregesi

To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.

— David Keirsey

“Avoid jumping into conclusion! This may cause your idea fractured. Authority will not be responsible!”

— Abhijit Kar Gupta

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

— Ned Rorem

“Kuwa makini na kila kitu unachofanya kwa maana ubongo ni kitu cha ajabu, ubongo una uwezo wa kukupotosha.”

— Enock Maregesi

Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.

— Thomas Keating

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

— Chuck Jones

I love a little distortion across the bass; I think it kind of adds something to the sound of the band when…

— Nikki Sixx

I feel my spot is somewhere between a bass player and a rhythm guitar player. I play with a pick. I play…

— Nikki Sixx

All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation…

— Robert Dallek

Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us - an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed…

— C. S. Lewis

I've been so lucky to have done two spacewalks. If you looked at your wristwatch, I was outside about 15 hours, which…

— Chris Hadfield

In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some…

— Abraham Maslow

The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but…

— Leo Tolstoy

I think religion is very anti-man. I think it's a terrible distortion and exploitation of a very natural urge every human has…

— George Carlin

When Christians speak of the authority of Scripture, because Christians believe that this word, even though it's mediated through many different human…

— D. A. Carson

The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly…

— Anne Lamott

. . . the upsurge of Spirit is the only plausible way to stop the ecological destruction of our planet. Even people…

— Michael Lerner

When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and…

— John Petrucci

When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the…

— David Korten

In my opinion, the continued popularity of these gross distortions of Iran in the U.S. seems to reveal more about certain aspects…

— Mohammad Marandi

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the…

— Noam Chomsky

Not only did waging war against Hitler fail to save the Jews, it may be that the war itself brought on the…

— Howard Zinn

“All of nature, therefore, is good, since the Creator of all nature is supremely good. But nature is not supremely and immutably…

— Augustine of Hippo

“Sikujui. Lakini naamini hungependa kuishi maisha yako hapa duniani bila kuacha urithi au kumbukumbu ya aina yoyote katika jamii. Zifuatazo ni ngazi…

— Enock Maregesi

To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose…

— Val Plumwood

I also came to see that liberalism's superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness…

— Brian Eno

The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about…

— Umair Haque

In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.

— Michio Kaku

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

— Flannery O'Connor

Monsters exist because we create them, through war and violence, and distortion, and the way we handle people and so on.

— Leon Golub

Religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision.

— Larry Graham

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.

— Ron Perlman

The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded.

— Pat Swindall

I always look at myself knowing that I will have a certain degree of cognitive distortion.

— Sarah Silverman

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

— Cedric Price