Kidding Yourself Quotes

• Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

  Edwin Land

  Science, Method

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• The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

  Edwin Land

  Power, Important, Use

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• Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

  Edwin Land

  Marketing, Advertising, Products

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• Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

  Larry King

  Success, Wisdom, Fake People

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• Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

  Edwin Land

  Construction Projects, Important, Impossible

  "The Vindication of Edwin Land". Forbes Magazine, Volume 139 (p. 83), May 4, 1987.

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• Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

  Frederick Buechner

  Religious, Moving, Doubt

  Frederick Buechner (2007). “Wunschdenken: ein religiöses ABC”, p.128, Theologischer Verlag Zürich

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• There is nothing easy about becoming conscious. My own life was much easier before I knew about the deeper meaning of choice, the power of choice that accompanies taking responsibility. Abdicating responsibility to an outside source can seem, at least for the moment, so much easier. Once you know better, however, you can't get away with kidding yourself for long.

  Caroline Myss

  Responsibility, Long, Choices

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.257, Harmony

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• Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.

  Billy Joel

  Art, Truth, Honesty

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• Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

  Edwin Land

  Believe, Thinking, Technique

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• It seems to me you can be awfully happy in this life if you stand aside and watch and mind your own business, and let other people do as they like about damaging themselves and one another. You go on kidding yourself that you're impartial and tolerant and all that, then all of a sudden you realize you're dead, and you've never been alive at all.

  Mary Stewart

  People, Mind Your Own Business, Watches

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• I'm the most experienced cinematographer in this medium, so there's no point in having that extra conversation in the middle of the loop. You're making the film in relation to what's happening now, and you can't really affect what's happening now. It's not like you're in control of anything in front of the camera. If you're calling yourself the director and you're not the cinematographer, I think you're kidding yourself.

  David Douglas

  Thinking, Cameras, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• If you really believe something, you will act in accordance with that belief - always. If you believe in gravity, you will never attempt to defy it. If you claim to hold a belief but act incongruently, then you don't actually believe it. You're only kidding yourself. Casual faith isn't.

  Steve Pavlina

  Believe, Belief, Claims

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• I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself.

  Hugh Dancy

  Inspirational, Funny, Insecure

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• if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.

  Frederick Buechner

  Moving, Doubt, Alive

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• You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.

  Twyla Tharp

  Creativity, Crafts, Ifs

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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