Best Misdirection Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Performing magic in the live show thrills me. Just get me a deck of cards and some attentive audience, and I have made my day and theirs too”

Source: Wealth of Words

“All the magicians have 52 mutual friends.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“For a professional magician, a stack of playing cards is as good as a stack of money.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“A magician may step out without a purse, but he should never step out without a pack of playing cards.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“If truth is relative, then it’s cousin is anarchy.”

Reality Truth Lying Honest Honesty Lies Confusion Anarchy Relative Absolute Cousin Fact Misdirection Disorientation Misdirected

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Deceit, distortion, misdirection, and concealment are all lies in altered masks.”

Lying Lies Richelle Goodrich Deceit Richelle E Goodrich Distortion Concealment Misdirection

Book:Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“Lies require noise and misdirection to blend in, silence is the best way to draw the truth to the surface.”

Truth Lying Communication Lies Deception Listen Gaslighting Misdirection

Book:Necessary People

Source: Necessary People

“She denatured the mystery, squeezed a palpable space between the lines, trapped his mind in flattery. Beautiful it was to watch, you all fell through the crack, went down right with him.”

Mind Poet Spells Misdirection Spellwork Amie Martine

Book:The Cosmos of Amie Martine

Source: The Cosmos of Amie Martine

“Misdirection is the key to world events.”

Money Ego Enlightenment Greed Quote Of The Day Anthony T Hincks The Prophet Avocatorium World Order Wars Misdirection

Author:Anthony T. Hincks

“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. In fact, men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth — often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.”

Truth Belief Teaching Fight Superstitions Miracles Fables Indoctrination Intangible Myths Fantasies Refutation Misdirection

Author:Hypathia of Alexandria

“Always, as I looked back, I could see that there had been an almost willful intent to obscure, to misdirect, disguised as concern that we not be frightened or overwhelmed.”

Deception Misdirection Hiding The Truth

Book:Annihilation

Source: Annihilation

“Is the goal I’ve set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?”

Fear Goal Goals Objectives Guidance Coward Cowardice Avoidance Goal Setting Fright Avoid Objective Misdirection Misstep

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Misdirection only comes from someone that has lost their way.”

Misdirection

Author:Shannon L. Alder

“a finger pointing with particular aim too far from the goal in effect points at everything.”

Order Chaos Direction Misdirection

Book:The Sorrow Proper

Source: The Sorrow Proper

“A small bad intention is often far more easily believed than a big one, Magnificence”

Misdirection

Book:Flight of the Nighthawks

Source: Flight of the Nighthawks

“The knives are useful. People are so busy staring at them, they don't notice the gun until I've already shot them.”

Weapons Knives Guns Misdirection Dress To Impress

Book:Beyond Control

Source: Beyond Control

“Who points the gun? The shooter or the people behind them? Just because he had a gun doesn't mean that he was the one pulling the trigger.”

Trump Anthony T Hincks Propaganda Hincks Shadows Misdirection Assassination Attempt Political Survival

Author:Anthony T. Hincks

“The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.”

Greater Intellect Ease Misdirection

Book:Mamet Plays: 5: Boston Marriage; Dr Faustus; Romance

Source: Mamet Plays: 5: Boston Marriage; Dr Faustus; Romance

“To combat depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection -- a procedure which can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end.”

Want Mean Ends Suffering Evil Economics Crisis Productions Credit Cures Deception Combat Expansion Severe Banking Procedures Very Mean Misdirection

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.”

Knows War Poor Poverty Millions Weapons Mass Destruction Billions Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Misdirection

Author:Joseph Lowery

“The mass media causes sexual misdirection: It prompts us to need something deeper than what we want. This is why Woody Allen has made nebbish guys cool; he makes people assume there is something profound about having a relationship based on witty conversation and intellectual discourse. There isn't. It's just another gimmick, and it's no different than wanting to be with someone because they're thin or rich or the former lead singer of Whiskeytown.”

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

“there is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is in our midst; not because there is not enough, but owing to the misdirection of it.”

World Enough Ten Misery Luxury Midst Cooperation Owing Misdirection

Book:Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

“Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.”

Men Has Beens Feelings Religious Defined Vanity Excess Superstitions Exhausting Devising Misdirection

Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

“The writers are very good about misdirection and changeups, and that's what's great about it. We always think we know what's going to happen and then they throw a curveball that you don't see coming.”

Thinking Knows Happens Very Good Curveballs Misdirection

Author:Mike Colter

“To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about.”

Mean Evil Credit Cures Combat Expansion Very Mean Misdirection

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.”

Joy Turns Bits Chance Walking Discovery Blind Errors Alleys Labyrinth Wrong Turn Misdirection

Author:William Least Heat-Moon

“The media, I think, have to be accountable for some of the misdirection that is put forward in politics in some of the misapprehension, maybe even some of the lack of confidence in the political process. Because the most benign, frank thought can be twisted and portrayed as something that it really wasn't intended to.”

Thinking Political Process Media Frank Twisted Benign Lack Of Confidence Misdirection

Author:Cory Bernardi

“Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's claims.”

Giving Sides Ability Speech Weakness Argument Claims Free Speech Misdirection

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word.”

Children Art Form Honesty Fine Amount Demand Discretion Fine Arts Misdirection

Author:Miriam Toews

“Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.”

Confusion Misdirection

Author:Robert Kennedy

“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 and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.”

Believe Different Hard Faces Can Do Lines Hard Work Tools Don't Believe Deception Thieves Bullshit Misdirection

Book:The Lies of Locke Lamora: The Gentleman Bastard Sequence, Book One

Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora: The Gentleman Bastard Sequence, Book One

“Misdirection is one of my strengths.”

Misdirection

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“Of course, to avoid getting stuck in that convo with someone you dislike or feel uncomfortable around, don't be passive, be proactive. Do not let them direct your interaction on their terms, do it on yours. Ask a Misdirection Question--something too difficult to answer quickly--e.g., 'What's Congress up to?' or 'You ever learn any cool science?' When you ask the question, don't make eye contact, keep moving and get out of there. Do not wait for a response and deny ever asking it. Repeat these actions until you are never again spoken to by that individual (about four times).”

“Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.”

Mind Believe Eye Ears Magician Misdirection

Author:John Travolta

“Magic consists of creating, by misdirection of the senses, the mental impression of supernatural agency at work. That, and only that, is what modern magic really is, and that meaning alone is now assignable to the term.”

Term Magic Modern Creating Senses Impression Agency Misdirection

Author:John Nevil Maskelyne

“The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?”

Way Firsts Form Invisible Maps Misdirection

Book:Annihilation: A Novel

Source: Annihilation: A Novel

“When you've managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown - either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude - there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free”

World Heart Children Moments Hands Lost Creative Panic Reign Ineptitude Misdirection

Author:Tim Cahill