Top 1200 Illusion Of Choice Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.

Arctic-dwelling Eskimos have no choice but to eat large amounts of meat and animal fat. But let's get our facts straight: according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Eskimos also have the highest incidences of heart disease and osteoporosis in the world and, in general, short life spans. Perhaps that is something to consider when we are faced with the choice of what to eat for dinner and unlike Eskimos most of us do have choices.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact.

Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

I'm no Joan of Arc, but it's pretty revolutionary having a gender illusionist selling the illusion of beauty to females.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

Masks are the order of the day - and the least I can do is cultivate the illusion that I am gay, serene, not hollow and afraid.

Let's just shatter the illusion. I am not wealthy. I've lived in the same house for the past 30 years.

Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion.

I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them not to fight, they will be sorry, but they will fight. If I tell them to fight, they will be glad, and I who am not a very brave man will have made them a little braver.

Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

The sun never sets. It is only an appearance due to the observer's limited perspective. And yet, what a sublime illusion it is.

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

I think that to believe is to acknowledge that it's a choice in that present tense and that doubt is always an option. You’re not dealing with a fact like one plus one equals two—I’m gonna choose to believe that. It’s kind of one of those things where you are choosing to believe that someone loves you. That is always going to be your choice. So for me, I think that’s what makes the faith that I have volatile and explosive and dangerous and troubling. That’s what most of my songs are about.

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.

the illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.

If you were to force people to do something against their free choice, you would be dehumanizing them. The option of forcing everyone to go to heaven is immoral, because it's dehumanizing; it strips them of the dignity of making their own decision; it denies them their freedom of choice; and it treats them as a means to an end. When God allows people to say 'no' to him, he actually respects and dignifies them.

Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to 'methodological collectivism'; it rightly insists that the 'behaviour' and the 'actions' of collectives, such as states or social groups, must be reduced to the behaviour and to the actions of human individuals. But the belief that the choice of such an individualist method implies the choice of a psychological method is mistaken.

The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion.

Thus even supposedly unadulterated facts of observation already are interfused with all sorts of conceptual pictures, model concepts, theories or whatever expression you choose. The choice is not whether to remain in the field of data or to theorize; the choice is only between models that are more or less abstract, generalized, near or more remote from direct observation, more or less suitable to represent observed phenomena.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.

the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

I think many people have an illusion of success based on entering in at a level that's higher than their experiences.

A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.

The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

I'm an actress, and that's why I'm still here. Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.

The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it.

There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.

In 2006, the number of children in targeted school choice programs nationwide will reach six digits for the first time, representing a 40 percent increase in the number of children in targeted school choice programs and an even bigger increase in the amount of public funding.

Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.

When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.

To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.

I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.

...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.

On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.

Make the choice to do something because it engages your heart as well as your mind. Make the choice because it engages all of you.

The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry.

I don't even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, and she hadn't, things got narrow real quick. Like trying to wade a river, she thought. You take a wrong step and set your foot on a wobbly rock or in a drop-off and you're swept away, and all you can do then is try to survive.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.