Misdirection Quote by Raymond E. Feist Download Open image ““A small bad intention is often far more easily believed than a big one, Magnificence”” — Raymond E. Feist ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Misdirection
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“For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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“intention alone isn’t sufficient. Goodness is proved through action rather than ideas.” — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
“misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all. — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“Knowing what things are not is often as important as knowing what they are.” — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead. — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“Kings and marshals can look back and relive their triumphs, their great victories. We common folk must take what pleasure we can from life's… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There's… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“All right, me darlings. You heard the Captain. Look around and tell ol'Biggo what you thieving rascals grabbed when you ran for your lives!” — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
I keep threatening to write a non-fantasy book, and they keep offering me the kind of money I can't refuse to write a fantasy.… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
I don't like fantasy where a king snaps his fingers and suddenly a whole army appears and goes off to war - he's got… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“A magician may step out without a purse, but he should never step out without a pack of playing cards.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
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The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
The mass media causes sexual misdirection: It prompts us to need something deeper than what we want. This is why Woody Allen has made… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing.… — Hypathia of Alexandria Copy Share Image
We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t believe in hard work when a false face… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes. — John Travolta Copy Share Image
there is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is in our… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions… — Joseph Lowery Copy Share Image
Magic consists of creating, by misdirection of the senses, the mental impression of supernatural agency at work. That, and only that, is what modern… — John Nevil Maskelyne Copy Share Image