When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
Speculative markets have always been vulnerable to illusion. But seeing the folly in markets provides no clear advantage in forecasting outcomes, because… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
The intertwining of corporations and government has become so extensive in this century that the notion of a democratic balancing act has… — Charles Derber Copy Share Image
You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing… — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in the world whatsoever. It is just the impurity of the vision. It… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“I am in favour of illusion, not alienation... Drama must create a factitious spell-binding present moment and imprison the spectator in it.… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“That's the fundamental flaw in the illusion that writers like to maintain, the idea that we can craft anything approaching the truth.… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. If you awaken… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Debts grow and grow. And the more they grow, the more they shrink the economy. When you shrink the economy, you shrink… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“Old photographs are very deceiving, they give us the illusion that we are alive in them, and it's not true, the person… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security. It… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
Jefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men; on the contrary, the great danger was… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“Of the two, only one can be the doer. If God is the doer; then there is nothing for us to do.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
If you are under the illusion that you can start a business and run it at your life's schedule, you are mistaken.… — Robert Herjavec Copy Share Image
Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did.… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Miracles occur when two people realize that there is no separation between them. In that moment, love flows freely and their true… — Elizabeth Herrera Copy Share Image
It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I'm not a big believer in the power of more regulation to fix things. I think it can almost be more dangerous… — Bethany McLean Copy Share Image
You'd think people would realize they're bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
“The modern scientist attempts to step outside of himself in order to observe himself, an attempt that is always doomed to failure.… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.… — John Gribbin Copy Share Image
The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
What sense does it make to build a castle of illusions? We can live in it for a short time, but when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
As an actor, the only thing we can do is play the truth at that moment. Because at any point in time… — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
There's this thing, something in the water in America that is so intoxicating as well, that's like your dreams can come true.… — Riz Ahmed Copy Share Image
We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you… — Kalu Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“We also use that limitation purposely as a tool to understand things, to form the illusion of mastery and control over a… — Mark Burgess Copy Share Image
The 1990's will be a determining period of time for another cycle. If humanity during this time chooses to throw away a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image