#distort

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#desires #distorting #evil #facts #forget

I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That's where we're heading. And it'll cut out a lot of music if people ever expected to make money. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#creativity #cut #distortion #ever #expected

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception. ↗

— George Soros

#basis #bubbles #distorted #grow #market

We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#burst #control #distorted #environment #eventually

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#distortion #poetry #beauty

...that icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror... ↗

— John Geddes

#ice #mirror #reflection #beauty

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making. ↗

— Ian Williams

#closer #distortion #guitar #i #i think

Iubirea e banală. Îți provoacă o intoxicație chimică foarte asemănătoare cu aceea dată de o reușită mult așteptată sau de mersul cu mare viteză. În acele momente, nu mai ținem cont de nimic și ne concentrăm doar asupra propriei noastre delectări; viața de zi cu zi ne este distorsionată și devenim iraționali: ne simțim fericiți și ni se pare că totul este posibil. ↗

— Liza Marklund

#happiness #life #love #moments #possibility

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#constant #distorted #immediate #input #map

No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions. ↗

— Joe Wilson

#both #both sides #distortions #even #issue