Project?

Do you have a context for the statement?
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"It is not fair to project your idea of perfection onto others"

It means you have a sense of perfection which you are measuring others by, judging them good or poor by whether they come up to that standard, trying to persuade them to live by it, but it is a sense of perfection that they and many others do not agree with/share.

Project literally means throw (ject) forward (pro). So you are throwing your sense of perfection onto them (it not being curre

Haddie What does the expression "Project your idea of something on someone" mean?

Too many indefinite pronouns!

It means to expect someone else to have the same idea that you do of something.

Thank you so much meteorquake and CJ. That was very helpful.
CJ I realize that. I tried to be more specific with the context in my first response to meteorquake:)