Self Projection Quotes

“The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you're self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one can do.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“I missed what he said next, thinking how the villagers wanted the gypsies to be gross, so the grossness of what they're not acts as a stencil for what the villagers are.”
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

“They say that humans can read each other in a hundred subtle ways, in the briefest expressions of a face, but somehow, on that day, I had communicated with amazing efficiency the exact opposite of what I most wanted in the world.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles