Deceiving Quote by Sol Stein Download Open image “The expert magician seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye.” — Sol Stein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deceiving Experts Eye Magic Magician Mind Psychology
Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it. — James Randi Copy Share Image
“For the true magician there is no very clear line between what lies inside the mind and what lies outside it.If you desire something,… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable. — Teller Copy Share Image
The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this… — Alexander Herrmann Copy Share Image
For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
Magicians are manipulating your consciousness. They are showing you something impossible. They're getting you to construct a narrative, which simply isn't true. So that… — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports… — Jim Steinmeyer Copy Share Image
“The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you wont find it, because… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
“Magicians court the spotlight while living in constant fear of exposure. They regard magic tricks as being like quantum states—destroyed by the very act… — Alex Stone Copy Share Image
A Magician is not a Magician because he knows tricks, but because he knows Magic - the principles, the fundamentals. — Harlan Tarbell Copy Share Image
It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn him the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable for other… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive. — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur. — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
“It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action. — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
“The novelist is like the conductor of an orchestra, his back to the audience, his face invisible, summoning the experience of music for the… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension and not… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue. — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
