Deception Quote by Moss Hart Download Open image “Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.” — Moss Hart ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deception Self Self deception Sometimes Tools
Self-deception is so far from impossible that it is one of the most ordinary phenomena with which we are acquainted. Nothing is more usual… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Self-deception is an indispensable element of war, and that despite the fact that wars are calculated and planned, there is a sense in which… — David Livingstone Smith Copy Share Image
The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may be able… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
Though deception is seen as an attack upon the other, deception is a tool of emotional suicide of oneself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception. — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
“Our minds have a great capacity for deception. This does not mean we are necessarily dishonest but if we are not careful, when our… — David W. Earle Copy Share Image
How many of us would be willing to settle when we're young for what we eventually get? All those plans we make...what happens to… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
“Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can if make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Julie Andrews has a wonderful British strength that makes you wonder why they lost India. — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick. — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
A play for me never really takes on an aspect of reality until it has left the dryair of the study and begins to… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of friends. — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable.… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
“The fact that I can get away with something is the very reason why I shouldn’t do it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Satan wants you to believe that you don't have a choice in the matter. You can't be happy until things go the way that… — Lindsey Rietzsch Copy Share Image
No-deal Brexit could be Boris Johnson's biggest deception yet - worse than the Boris bus or the lies that had him sacked as a… — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
The public should begin to understand that there's nothing that comes out of this campaign, or this Obama White House, that they can believe.… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Speaking of trust, ever since I wrote this book, 'Liespotting,' no one wants to meet me in person anymore - no, no, no, no,… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
Jack and Jill ran up the hill, both for a little fun. Jack's plan was deception while Jill sought affection. And Jack wouldn't quit… — Laurie Faria Stolarz Copy Share Image
People with psychopathy are very good at reading the minds of their victims. That's probably most clearly seen in deception. — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the… — John Wanamaker Copy Share Image
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution. — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only… — Michael Musto Copy Share Image
