Just don't delude yourself into thinking you're being reflected back.
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Can life be so cruel in its capacity to delude?
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There are people who are horrible because they delude themselves into thinking they're good, and there are people who are horrible because they relentlessly take advantage of those who delude themselves into thinking they're good.
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Nor can I delude myself about the nature of our redistribution.
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We cannot afford to delude ourselves about the state of things.
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Some of us even delude ourselves into thinking we are actually funny.
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I've often said markets don't lie, but they can sometimes delude themselves.
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Let's not delude ourselves into thinking billion-dollar artificial islands are the solution.
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Let's not delude ourselves into believing their experience with Ikea is anything like ours.
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This could be the second chance you've been waiting for, but don't delude yourself.
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Let us never again delude ourselves into believing the idea that Brady will lose.
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They delude themselves into thinking they are connected, while really growing lonelier and lonelier.
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"You'd never bullshit your friends," she says, so why try to delude your reader?
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So if you don't want to delude yourself, it's probably best to say something now.
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There are many ways to delude yourself when you live in this kind of environment.
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How could anyone delude themselves into thinking anyone else could give a shit about reading this?
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" Our genes, Alexander wrote, delude us into thinking that we are "law-abiding, kind, altruistic souls.
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" Beck Delude, @manfattan"Because the most important part of wearing a swimsuit is having FUN in it!
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It's dangerous for reporters to delude themselves into thinking they are friends with the people they cover.
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Now we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking Americans are inherently more innovative than people in other countries.
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I bought it off an artist and like to delude myself into thinking it has good juju.
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But let's not delude ourselves that this is anything more than the capture of one admittedly horrible individual.
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"Yes, that's what tedium is: the loss by the soul of its capacity to delude itself," Pessoa writes.
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State legislatures should not delude themselves that the dangers of an Article V convention can somehow be contained.
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But let us not delude ourselves that this is materially different from what previous presidents have done, all right?
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We get mired in solipsism and delude ourselves into believing that the proverbial struggle cannot go on without us.
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As a result, "we didn't delude ourselves into thinking we were going to solve the enigma," Mr. Lewin said.
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But let's not delude ourselves about the past: Late Registration was a mess, too, it was just a better mess.
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While we may feel a strong emotional pull toward situations, there is also a tendency to romanticize or even delude ourselves.
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When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you.
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But let us not delude ourselves into believing that New York has a monopoly on weird and fortuitous turns of events.
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" But their research shows that "people behave dishonestly enough to profit but honestly enough to delude themselves of their own integrity.
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That's not actually possible, a sleep expert tells us, though you might be able to delude yourself into thinking it is.
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Henry V (Ramsey Nasr) is still able to delude himself that he's a patriotic man for (if not of) the people.
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As the Count consumes more wine, the guilt all colonialists must suppress or delude themselves out of feeling begins to creep in.
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Unlike Saddam's Iraq, Iran isn't likely to delude itself into thinking it could match the U.S.' military might in a conventional conflict.
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The lights, decorations and music blaring from loudspeakers during such events can be enough to delude one that is day and not night.
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Even if we want to think of Yellowstone as a wilderness, we can't delude ourselves into thinking that humans haven't affected the park.
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A black princess may actually delude some black Britons into feeling more accepted by Britain's complicated class structure and, by extension, the nation.
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"We shouldn't delude ourselves, London still has a considerable advantage," Mignot said, citing its cosmopolitan culture and tax credits for investing in startups.
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Hong Kong people have a type of post-prosperity arrogance, he wrote, and the city's exposure to Western values helps delude the public.
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Making Israel real to people who delude themselves on that point is key to honest negotiations about the future of a Palestinian state.
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We delude ourselves if we think that political views are either not related to Christianity or that only these extreme views can claim Christianity.
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The active shooter is never far away here; there are too many guns in America for us to ever delude ourselves into thinking otherwise.
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Certainly there are people who foolishly delude themselves into believing they are invincible or choose not to think about the consequences of not having coverage.
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Understand the power of the power lawScale benefits, network effects, and the power law are so powerful that people usually delude themselves into thinking otherwise.
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When you're really good at part of it, you can delude yourself into thinking that you've got everything you need when you have some massive incompleteness.
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If we continue to delude ourselves into believing that our destiny lies in knowledge and power, we will become slaves of the gods that we create.
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The world is in desperate need of American leadership and innovation, and we cannot afford to ignore or delude our way out of this current crisis.
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To that end, Segal said Dorsey has been pushing the removal of trolls and hate-fueled bots that can tarnish and delude conversations on the app.
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But perhaps even more frightening is the willingness of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes to delude herself and everyone around her in service of a seemingly benevolent mission.
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You don't want to believe something is true and though you could probably delude yourself, this is a potent time to realize what's truly meaningful to you.
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Emerging discussion of a carbon tax is promising, but let us not delude ourselves that a $30 or even $40 tax will achieve anything for the climate.
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We do so for the sake of a "higher good," but let's not delude ourselves that it is natural or easy -- or that sometimes we don't fail.
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Establishment elites can inadvertently assist would-be despots, as insiders delude themselves into believing they can invite an outsider into power and then pull the puppet strings.
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However, the international community should no longer delude itself into thinking that economic punishment will force Kim Jong Un to cry uncle and give up his nuclear deterrent.
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In this line of thinking, Democrats really shouldn't delude themselves into thinking that a government shutdown over DACA will be popular (like Republicans did for Obamacare in 2013).
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We want to delude ourselves into thinking the president is still a reality show contestant when he tweets and that the government runs separate from his Twitter feed.
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"I'm not going to delude myself with the idea that I would have put that money towards my retirement, if only I'd had some foresight," Trantham writes on TFD.
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Some of us will have high enough status that we might be able to delude ourselves into thinking we're not, but eventually, we're all just grist for their mill.
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Early reviews suggest not — especially if companies delude themselves that chatty robots are a golden opportunity to spam spam spam their users like they've always dreamed they can can can.
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Our obsession with scammers in culture is a long one, a rich tapestry full of brazen, audacious people who manage to lie, cheat, steal, and delude themselves to the top.
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"The fact that they can delude some of their users into thinking it's not prostitution also works to their benefit thanks to all the stigma around sex work," she says.
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You can watch Hank and love him, and never for a second delude yourself into thinking he's a good person because he just wishes he could give up the bad.
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Certainly Democrats shouldn't delude themselves about how far the Trump backlash can carry them, and of course the party should make strategic decisions about candidates in moderate and right-leaning districts.
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Republicans can delude themselves into believing that the stunning victory of Conor Lamb in the Pennsylvania election was a "blip," as they deluded themselves believing that the historic election of Sen.
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His narrators cannot simply be called "unreliable", for it is not that they set out to delude or trick the reader: rather, they tell us the stories they themselves want to hear.
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Maybe it was the materialistic mindset of the retail business, but Amazon didn't delude themselves that developers would be writing apps to use these APIs to win a prize at a hackathon.
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"That's a wonderful example of how we can delude ourselves into thinking that nothing really has to change," Ayres recently told CNN's "Party People" podcast hosts Kevin Madden and Mary Katherine Ham.
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My racial ambiguity keeps me from being recognized as the race I actually am, and is something I've used to delude myself in my desperate need to find others to identify with.
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The pair makes lots of movies about people who delude themselves into doing reckless or even illegal things, based on the belief that they deserve something good because America lied to them.
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" Yet the sequel to his 2004 breakthrough -- which is finally hitting theaters on a limited basis -- holds up in exploring the ways consumers delude themselves in their pursuit of "healthy fast food.
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They delude Twitter users into thinking that they're contributing to thoughtful discourse by endlessly amplifying other people's points—the digital equivalent of shouting "yeah, what they said" in the midst of an argument.
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We delude ourselves that protests' power lies in scale rather than frequency, but the Iraq war protests wouldn't have been any less impotent had they been bigger; they failed because they weren't sustained.
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And the more Republican leaders delude themselves into thinking that the solution to their woes is to centralize more power into fewer hands, the more they court an even angrier backlash in the future.
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" They Live is a clear send up of our complacency in a society built on psychotically selfish consumption, but it's also about the cover-up: how we delude ourselves from seeing some "unpleasant truth.
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The point is, dance crazes are often just that—momentary blips on the cultural landscape, bizarre moments in time when we collectively agree to delude ourselves into shaking a leg and actually enjoying it.
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I think in an app world we will delude ourselves into this cold comfort that unemployment will be low, but will arbitrage people down from middle-class jobs to part-time temporary TaskRabbit jobs.
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It's your one day," Sethi tells CNBC Make It. "My advice to you is acknowledge it, plan for it, don't delude yourself into thinking that you are only going to spend $16 on a wedding.
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And let us not delude ourselves into thinking that the only problem with hate speech is the manifestation of physical violence that follows: Hateful discourse in the social sphere represents its own form of violence.
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But they're also largely blind to how their egos and power trips are hurting the women and children they're supposed to love, even as they delude themselves into thinking they're doing right by their families.
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He would say that people — and least of all him — should never delude themselves about that, no matter how popular and prosperous the league was becoming on the backs of Jordan and other black stars.
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Still, Republican leaders and elites also were able to delude themselves into thinking it was economic policies that voters were responding to because this was what the wealthy donors who they hung around with told them.
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Your brain may delude itself into thinking that it has more capacity than it really does, but it's really working extra hard to handle multiple thoughts at once when you are switching back and forth between tasks.
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It would, however, be a serious mistake for May to delude herself to think that such a commitment will provide any real solution to the U.K.'s serious balance of payment challenges over the next few years.
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"I hope we have a second chance, but in the meantime we cannot delude ourselves and we have to play with what we have," said Luis Rodolfo Machado, president of the Zulia Eagles team, from western Venezuela.
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Anyone who pretends that this is a particularly meaningful amount of money and that getting rid of it would be a serious step toward shrinking the federal government is trying very, very hard to delude the public.
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"We can't delude anyone that this Congress will begin passing our priorities tomorrow but we have to start presenting our vision for the country's future," Schumer said at a kickoff event in the town of Berryville, Virginia.
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"I am being cautious because I do not want to delude myself, but at the same time I have a lot of hope that two whole weeks of lockdown plus increasingly restrictive measures are producing results," Gori said.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Britons on Thursday not to delude themselves that they could negotiate an agreement on their future relationship with the European Union before they have nailed down a deal to leave the bloc.
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In doing so without suffering any significant consequences, he has made it more difficult for Americans to continue to delude ourselves with fairy tales about our collective values and to indulge in comforting fictions about the fundamental decency of our politics.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Britons on Thursday not to delude themselves that they would continue to enjoy EU rights after Brexit and insisted the bloc would only agree on future ties with London after they have nailed down a deal to leave.
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"I am being cautious because I do not want to delude myself, but at the same time I have a lot of hope that two whole weeks of lockdown plus increasingly restrictive measures are producing results," he told a group of foreign reporters.
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Putin may very well win in March, but with a sluggish economy, rampant unemployment and a growing sense of frustration with politics as usual, the future does not look nearly as rosy as the Kremlin would like to delude itself into thinking.
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Again, I don't delude myself into thinking I lived up to all of these necessary characteristics, but my experience did teach me what you needed to do the job right -- as opposed to the way it's been done for the last two-plus years.
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In the wake of #MeToo, we know that the powerful may delude themselves about the willingness of those they manipulate, and that their less powerful victims may go along with things they do not want because they are overwhelmed by the status of their abuser.
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But while Republican primary voters seemed largely unfazed by his racially charged or sexist gaffes (and establishment conservatives continued to delude themselves that Trump wouldn't be the nominee), Trump's say-whatever-comes-to-mind strategy doesn't seem to be working as well in the general election.
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But we should not delude ourselves, as there is a serious problem with this approach: The most promising niches (large margin, low competition from banks/state, low credit risk) have already been divided among the existing players; these are consumer and mortgage loans, small business loans, student loans, factoring.
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It stems from the dissociation encouraged by gaming communities that regard their online beefs and entitlements as real enough to merit horrific online abuse — and in the case of swatting, very tangible abuse — but unreal enough that they can delude themselves into thinking that no one really gets hurt.
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You can delude yourself to an immense degree, and there are some people who are fabulously talented at the sales and the showmanship that go with the company so they can sort of paper over a bad product for longer than they should, but ultimately you cannot fool nature there.
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But the launching of Tomahawks on Syria certainly raises the prospect not that Trump set out consciously to delude his supporters, but that he lacks the core convictions and knowledge that would enable him to stand up to the Beltway military-industrial "America is No. 1" complex, which is almost invariably interventionist.
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What we must come to grips with is that the arrogance and myopia that made our race-based social caste system possible, that allowed us to dishonor our Constitution and delude ourselves on a regular basis, are the same arrogance and myopia that are now threatening the well-being of the entire planet.
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But the subtext of Bannon's decision to air out all of his White House grievances is to delude Trump supporters into believing that the failures of the Trump presidency rest not with him, or even with Trump, but with the remaining coterie of White House "globalists" (read: Jews and their allies) who serve masters other than Trump and Trumpism.
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"There was nothing original in his method — only in the successful way he employed his fanciful computer explanation to delude the managements of European casinos, the gaming police and the general public," the gaming writer Russell T. Barnhart said in a chapter about Dr. Jarecki in his book "Beating the Wheel: Winning Strategies at Roulette" (1992).
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Some might try to delude themselves that the melee in Charlottesville was about something other than race, but in the instantly iconic photo of the maniac's Dodge Challenger plowing through the crowd, an African American man rolling off the trunk after being hit, makes the spectacle of bigotry overwhelm any parsing of the rally's motives and beliefs.
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