“While we are expecting everybody to tell downright the truth, many are muddying the water, drowning questions in a river of words and trying to make us forget what actually the real issue is about. If paltering and deflecting matters might become a new way of telling the truth, interaction might be doomed to culminate in a cluster shell of suspicion and mutual trust to become frantically undermined. ( “Blame storming” )” TruthWordsInteractionMutual TrustDeflectingBlame StormingCluster ShellDrowning QuestionsMuddying The WaterPaltering Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Aw, are you worried about me?' I teased. 'You're such a good father.' His expression turned bland. 'Stop deflecting, Poppy.' 'Why? I'm so good at it.' 'But you're actually not.” FunnyWorriedJennifer L ArmentroutPoppyPoppy BalfourFrom Blood And AshFather FigureDeflectingVikterPersonal Guard Book:From Blood and Ash Source: From Blood and Ash
“When structural violence begins to break into public awareness, those responsible for it briskly and effectively deflect the dawning awareness onto more sensational or easily understood acts of direct violence.” DeflectingStructural Violence Author:Cynthia Moe-Lobeda
“Frankly speaking, we all know that provoking military and political instability, regional, and other conflicts is a helpful means of distracting the public from growing domestic social and economic problems in certain countries. Such attempts cannot be ruled out, unfortunately.” PeopleWayKindProblemPoliticalPoliticsSocialAttentionResponsibilityHistoryPowerEconomicMilitaryHonestyConflictEconomicsDebtSocialismFrankProvokingTaxationConvenientInstabilityEconomic ProblemsDeflectingPolitical Instability Author:Vladimir Putin
“[On charity] I try to pick subjects that I can learn about and then focus on and then do as much as I can. If you have a tremendous amount of heat from the spotlight, then you're able to shine a little bit more of your light in a different direction. It's just deflecting. My dad calls it a celebrity credit card that you can cash in. I think if you're in this position you should do it.” IfsThinkingShouldTryingLittlesI CanDifferentLightAbleBitsFocusSubjectsPositionAmountDadLittle BitPicksShiningCharityMy DadCreditCardsHeatCashCredit CardSpotlightDifferent DirectionsDeflecting Author:George Clooney
“It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That is why the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day.” MindWellsHeartMomentsEyeRoomsGraceGoes OnWake UpWitEnormousOpeningEveningWakingLet It GoOrbitQuicknessPresence Of MindDeflectingOpening Your Eyes Book:The Metamorphosis Source: The Metamorphosis
“The system has a way of convincing people that because they live in the USA they are better off than all other people in the world. This gets them focused on the wrong things, of course, but it has been a tried and true way of deflecting class struggle, something I don't think Marx didn't fully anticipated. The education system, and the whole culture really, has a lot to do with how these feelings are transmitted to each new generation. When parents say their kids were heroes when they died for nothing in Iraq, you can see the power of this.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayHas BeensWholeFeelingsKidsCultureCoursesParentClassStruggleGenerationsHeroDiedIraqFocusedUsaBetter OffConvincingWrong ThingsEducation SystemNew GenerationClass StruggleDeflecting Author:Michael Yates
“Hey, aren’t we forgetting something? (Savitar) Your dignity? (Takeshi) No, you have me confused with you again. Aren’t you supposed to be training him? (Savitar) So you admit my superiority by deflecting my attention to the neophyte. (Takeshi)” ForgetAttentionTrainingDignityHeySupposed To BeConfusedSuperiorityYou AgainSavitarDeflecting Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.” GovernmentAttentionEnemyDangerousAbuseTerrorismPropagandaDeflecting Author:Mark Poster
“To the extent we are perceiving anyone's guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence of their spirit - we're closing our hearts, deflecting a miracle and causing our own inevitable suffering.” InspirationalHeartSpiritSufferingFocusPersonalityEternalMiracleGuiltErrorsInnocenceInevitableClosingDeflecting Author:Marianne Williamson
“Whatever outrageous dream keeps flowing across your mind, allow it to live inside you. Don't deflect it, diminish it, invalidate it or come up with some excuse for why it can't happen. This will allow it to explain itself to you - why it's there, what it means, and what if anything you should do about it.” IfsInspirationalShouldMindMeanDreamHappensCome UpExcuseBelieve In YourselfWhat IfDiminishFollow Your DreamsFollow Your HeartOutrageousListen To Your HeartChase Your DreamsLecturerListen To YourselfLiving The DreamDeflecting Author:Marianne Williamson
“If you allow one little sin to creep into your life, and think it doesn't matter, it will grow and grow until it affects your whole spiritual life, deflecting you from your primary aim of serving God.” IfsThinkingLittlesMatterWholeSpiritualGrowsSinAimPrimariesServingSpiritual LifeServing GodCreepsDeflecting Author:Angus Buchan
“How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public relations conjuring tricks of history. But they swung it. A recent poll tells us that one in two Americans now believe Saddam was responsible for the attack on the World Trade Centre.” WorldBelieveTwoAmericaPoliticsRelationResponsibleTradeTricksCentreSaddamHusseinPollsBin LadenPublic RelationsWorld TradeConjuringDeflecting Author:John le Carre
“He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to deflecting his pain by killing. Just like a teenager might resort to deflecting the pain of rejection by cutting. People did a lot of crazy things to be wanted.” PeopleMightWantedPainCuttingCrazyNeededKillingTeenagerRejectionResortsAbsentNeedyCrazy ThingsFinchesDeflecting Author:Ted Dekker