Tricking Quotes

If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself? (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

Obsessed with tricking the girl, he had fallen into the trap he laid for her. Bitterly he recognised that he was always believing his own lies, caught in nets he had elaborately woven.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Film-making encompasses everything, from tricking people into investing in it, to putting on the show, to trying to distill down to moments in time, and ape reality but send this other message. It's got everything. When I was a kid I loved to draw, and I loved my electric football sets, and I painted little things and made sculptures and did matte painting and comic books and illustrated stuff, and took pictures, had a darkroom, loved to tape-record stuff. It's all of that. It's not having to grow up. It's four-dimensional chess, it's strategy, and it's being painfully honest, and unbelievably deceitful, and everything in between.

David Fincher

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.

Tucker Max

Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.

Julian Casablancas

I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit like dance. I have done Muay Thai and Wushu, which is cool because it's very fluid dance. I also do Tricking. It's kind of like Taekwondo with the big kicks and flips and showier aspects of martial arts.

Caity Lotz

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

Joan Didion

Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream. (Joan Didion)

Listen, Peaches, is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them.

Terry Pratchett

All sadhanas or methods are for simply tricking the mind. The trick is to not let the mind spread out in a form of thoughts.

Baba Hari Dass

Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden ... It is sad that nature will play such tricks with us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, tricking us to the heart.

Nathaniel Hawthorne