Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
I was in a number of school plays, one in particular, when I was 13 or 14, entitled 'Illusions.' It was put together by one of the teachers, and was about famous historical figures. I had to do the Martin Luther King 'I have a dream' speech, and some black women in the audience were clapping and crying and whooping.
I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change his or her life a little bit for the better, even if it just means giving someone a magical place in which to hide.
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
I have no illusions at all about being a sex symbol. None of my former girlfriends ever thought of me that way, and I don't have any packs of women chasing me down the street like a Brad Pitt or someone like that.
I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions. Smoke and mirrors.
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.
I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.
Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us have had experiences which are verging on hallucination. It shows the power of the brain to knock up illusions.
The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.
You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.
I have no illusions about having another 'Seinfeld' in my life.
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.
I have no illusions of being the big box office draw. But I would like to have some choices.
I have no illusions that my work can rouse the masses to create change, because literature simply doesn't have that power anymore in my country, if it does anywhere. But I do hope that it can be read by those who are in positions to create change, or that it can at least be part of that dialogue.
While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.
At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.
The doctors who have examined me say I am healthy enough for a long life, so don't have any illusions that I'll soon leave this world.
God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Something I've learned being in this industry for so long is that if you want to work with somebody, call them up. Very few musicians have any illusions about genre boundaries. They are useful descriptive terms, but they don't really bind musicians.
As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.
I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.
There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake.
