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“The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.”

Important Use Power Important Things Kidding Yourself

Author:Edwin Land

“Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.”

Ifs Art Truth Form Honesty Listeners Kidding Yourself

Author:Billy Joel

“Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.”

Thinking Want Believe I Believe Technique Kidding Yourself

Author:Edwin Land

“It seems to me you can be awfully happy in this life if you stand aside and watch and mind your own business, and let other people do as they like about damaging themselves and one another. You go on kidding yourself that you're impartial and tolerant and all that, then all of a sudden you realize you're dead, and you've never been alive at all.”

People Ifs Mind Seems Realizing Watches Alive Goes On This Life Own Business Mind Your Own Business Mind Your Own Kidding Yourself

Author:Mary Stewart

“I'm the most experienced cinematographer in this medium, so there's no point in having that extra conversation in the middle of the loop. You're making the film in relation to what's happening now, and you can't really affect what's happening now. It's not like you're in control of anything in front of the camera. If you're calling yourself the director and you're not the cinematographer, I think you're kidding yourself.”

Ifs Thinking Film Middle Fronts Like You Calling Directors Conversation Happenings Relation Cameras Mediums Extras No Point Loops Cinematographers Kidding Yourself

Author:David Douglas

“You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.”

Ifs Creativity Crafts Kidding Yourself

Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.”

Wisdom Success Lucky Stress Luck Good Luck Fake People Bad Luck Best Of Luck Fortune And Luck Kidding Yourself

Author:Larry King

“Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.”

Important Impossible Projects Project Management Kidding Yourself Construction Projects

Author:Edwin Land

“Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.”

Products Marketing Advertising Kidding Yourself

Author:Edwin Land

“Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.”

Science Method Kidding Yourself

Author:Edwin Land

“Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.”

Moving Religious Doubt Awake Pants Ants Doubted Uncertainty And Doubt Kidding Yourself

Book:Wunschdenken: ein religiöses ABC

Source: Wunschdenken: ein religiöses ABC

“if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.”

Ifs Moving Doubt Alive Pants Ants Kidding Yourself

Author:Frederick Buechner

“I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself.”

Thinking Inspirational Feels Funny Actors Imagine Becoming Lucky Comfortable Profession Imagine That Sailing Insecure Kidding Yourself

Author:Hugh Dancy

“If you really believe something, you will act in accordance with that belief - always. If you believe in gravity, you will never attempt to defy it. If you claim to hold a belief but act incongruently, then you don't actually believe it. You're only kidding yourself. Casual faith isn't.”

Ifs Believe Belief Claims Gravity Casual If You Believe Kidding Yourself

Author:Steve Pavlina

“There is nothing easy about becoming conscious. My own life was much easier before I knew about the deeper meaning of choice, the power of choice that accompanies taking responsibility. Abdicating responsibility to an outside source can seem, at least for the moment, so much easier. Once you know better, however, you can't get away with kidding yourself for long.”

Source: Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing