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“The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.”

Fun Fool Pretending Pretension Fooling Ourselves

Book:Alice Adams

Source: Alice Adams

“I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.”

Thinking Way Efficient Multitasking Fooling Ourselves

Author:James Surowiecki

“It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay.”

Ideas Enough Impossible Gains Hearing Good Enough Adequate Fooling Ourselves

Book:The tangled wing: biological constraints on the human spirit

Source: The tangled wing: biological constraints on the human spirit

“When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don't write what you know, discover something new.”

Thinking Knows Writing Discovery Something New Fooling Ourselves

Author:Marie Howe

“I think we're fooling ourselves if we think that regulators are going to be able to outsmart the bankers. So, the task of designing regulatory reform is trying to make more or less foolproof regulation and that's one of the advantages of the systemic category.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Able Design Advantage Tasks Reform Categories Regulation Bankers Regulators Foolproof Fooling Ourselves

Author:Robert F. Engle

“Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.”

Fooling Ourselves

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.”

People Thinking May Fool Fooling Ourselves

Book:The bridge

Source: The bridge

“We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?”

Ifs Knows Way Needs Feels Looks Self Seems Events Self Esteem Illusion Connections Patterns Deny Esteem Settling What If Messy Illusion Of Control Fooling Ourselves

Author:Jessica Zafra

“Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other.”

Way Humans Made Courses Mistake Scientist Newton Made A Mistake Great Scientist Fooling Ourselves

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.”

Ifs God Christian Jesus Christ Church Religious Our Lives Figures Jesus Christ Fooling Ourselves

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer