Illusion Quotes
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David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.
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If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.
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One of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique, simple existent self, which is in some strange fashion, the patient's, or the subject person's, private property.
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Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.
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But glittering prizes and endless compromises, Shatter the illusion of integrity...
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I am here to tell you there's nothing in people knowing you. There's actually a loss in that! Really, the reward in life is genuinely the day of work you have. It's not the name you're making for yourself or the clicks and likes - it's such an illusion.
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When I’m writing I get it up as quickly as possible. I get the bass down and a drum sound, I don’t want to get bogged down in EQ. As long as it’s working and you’ve created a convincing illusion and the mood is coming to life then I’m happy with. That’s the writing stage.
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The whole thing's illusion, Jacob, and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.
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We're now at that point where the graphics are good enough to preserve the illusion and make you feel more immersed in the environment.
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When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.
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I'm under no illusion. There are lots of male singers out there with raspy voices.
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To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.
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I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.
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Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.
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We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.
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It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily confined.
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A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.
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What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening.
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I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.
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Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?
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The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.
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There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.
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It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.
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I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.
