Amanda de Cadenet

At age 14, you are just beginning to work out who you think you are, and being famous is a huge distortion of reality, and it's not healthy for a young person to be considered more special than their peers. So, I would say it hindered my self-esteem but in later years gave me a great perspective that I wouldn't have if I hadn't experienced that.

English Photographer

Blase J. Cupich

Some pro-life advocates focus almost exclusively on the rights and suffering of the unborn baby, while some pro-choice advocates focus equally exclusively on the rights and suffering of pregnant women. This is a distortion of the moral choice that confronts us as a society.

American Clergyman

Rush Limbaugh

I had to learn early on that where conservatives are concerned, the truth about them is the last thing anybody wants to report. It's the lies and distortions, the mischaracterizations, the character assassinations, that people want to report.

American Entertainer

Edward Thorndike

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

American Psychologist

Robert Morgan

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.

American Poet

Joe Wilson

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.

American Politician

Eve Ensler

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

American Playwright

Noam Chomsky

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

American Activist

John Petrucci

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

American Musician

Marcel Duchamp

Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.

French Artist

Often implies something was intentionally altered in a misleading way.

Negative connotation

Used for describing visual alterations that change perception.

Visual imagery

Can be used to describe altering facts or the truth.

Metaphorical use

Refers to misinterpretations or false beliefs in one's cognition.

Thinking errors

Stresses the impact of a distorted view in critical thinking.

Correctness importance

Primarily concerns the accuracy of visual reproduction.

Image quality

Used in specialized contexts like photography or physics.

Technical jargon

In music, the effect is used purposely for a particular sound.

Audio effects

Can also refer to unintended interference in audio signals.

Unwanted sounds

 before the kite has a lot of distortion associated with it and by using this technology were hoping to be able to record the exact shape so that it can study the physical behavior of the painting is the painting deteriorating besides assessing the paintings physical condition the high-tech regimen helped

Testing the Mona Lisa PIPE...

 So for a long time, psychologists have referred to these as cognitive distortions or even irrational beliefs. And yeah, sometimes they are irrational. Maybe even most of the time. But sometimes, these thoughts are totally rational. There is unfairness in the world. There are cruel, selfish people,

Why we get mad -- and...

 that did nothing more than hold all the important things together like the nerves but it turns out the glial cells have a vital role in the modulation amplification and in the case of pain the distortion of sensory experiences these glial cells become activated their

The mystery of chronic...

 Over the millenia, as such light cups grew deeper in some organisms, the opening at the front grew smaller. The result was a pinhole effect, which increased resolution dramatically, reducing distortion by only allowing a thin beam of light into the eye.

The evolution of the...

 for whom she felt platonic affection. Current consensus is that these stories, which ridicule Sappho or deny her work’s homoeroticism, are probably all untrue artifacts of misogyny and homophobia. Despite the distortions of the intervening millennia,

The surprising origins...

 to create effects like distortion, overdrive, wah-wah, delay and flanger. And lest you think that the physics of music is only useful for entertainment, consider this. Some physicists think that everything in the universe

The physics of playing...

 an interrupted pseudo-cylindrical equal area projection. What does that mean? Not important. The point was to minimize distortion for the entire world. The map can be land-oriented... or ocean-oriented.

Why every world map is...

 The order at which events take place in the world appears in the camera sometimes in reversed order. So by applying the corresponding space and time warp, we can correct for this distortion.

Imaging at a trillion...

 it's no wonder that we're pessimistic. It's no wonder that people think that the world is getting worse. But perhaps that's not the case. Perhaps instead, it's the distortions brought to us

Abundance is our future...

 women are seen and heard were all too often shown as objects or victims this distortion damages everyone research tells us that we know less and