Top 1200 Fooling Yourself Quotes & Sayings

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

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

If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.

Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.

Your job as a scientist is to figure out how you're fooling yourself.

A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.

Prenups are so unromantic - a sign of distrust, not love. Time for a reality check, my friends. First, drawing up a prenuptial agreement together is a sign of incredible trust and financial openness - you're fooling yourself if you think you can achieve complete intimacy without it.

Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth.

If you think you are in control, you're fooling yourself. As soon as you start listening, you realize you're not in control. And letting go will yield more and better results.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

Antiheroes who are sort of honest to themselves are the ones you root for. Like, Barry Seal isn't trying to be anything other than he is. He isn't fooling anybody per se.

In a world where everything revolves around yourself-protec t yourself, promote yourself, comfort yourself, and take care of yourself-Jesus says, 'Crucify yourself. Put aside all self-preservati on in order to live for God's glorification, no matter what that means for you in the culture around you.'

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

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

I find that you can use an acting technique when the thing isn't working, not that you make the technique the end result of your work. You use the technique when you're in trouble and things aren't flowing the way they should. It's a way of fooling yourself to make it work again.

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

Calling Batman 'the Dark Knight' is like calling Papa Smurf 'the Blue Patriarch':you're not fooling anyone.

There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving God. It's the ultimate way of fooling yourself.

When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.

I catch myself every once in a while doing that weird thing that I see famous people do, where they have sunglasses and hats on and grow out beards thinking that they're fooling people. Dude, you're not fooling anyone: you look just like you.

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

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

You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.

This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.

I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.

Every time I get a role, I'm surprised. It's like, 'Alright, when am I going to stop fooling them?'

Fooling laymen with science is sometimes so easy it should be criminal.

Kentucky Fried Chicken.. KFC... Keep Fooling Customers.

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

I'm a really a fanatical reviser, and there comes a point where I have to declare a truce with the text, or I'll keep fooling with it forever.

Pete Townshend keeps fooling us again, selling Who songs to yuppies hungry for SUVs.

When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.

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.

Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.

You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.

The ethos of not fooling yourself is one of the best you could possibly have. It's powerful because it's so rare.

The thing about addiction is you think you're getting off on people, and you're not, and the only person you're fooling is yourself.

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

You can be a writer who doesnt read everyday. But youre not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

Our whole life is a fooling around. You can do it because you are not aware of how you waste time, how you waste energy - how life is wasted you are not aware. It is going down the drain. Everything is going down the drain. Only when death comes to you, you may become aware, alert: What have I been doing? What have I done with life? A great opportunity has been lost. What was I doing fooling around? I was not sober. I never reflected upon what I was doing.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

I was the only woman fooling around with a camera in the streets and all the reporters laughed at me. So I became a fighter.

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then.

I keep fooling people into giving me jobs, and now I'm on Broadway. It's always something I've wanted to be a part of, and I can't believe that this is the experience I'm having.

I think if I was fooling the people, over 35 years of it now, I would've been caught already fooling them.

You are fooling yourself whenever you think you are productive just because you have worked fourteen hours in a day. You will be truly productive when you do the same amount of work in four hours, and take the other ten hours to enjoy the good things life has to offer.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.

We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.