Quotes About Misdirection

#1. That's the first law of magic, Specs. Misdirection. Never forget it.

Donna Tartt

#2. There is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is in our midst; not because there is not enough, but owing to the misdirection of it.

Ernestine Rose

#3. What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.

Amit Kalantri

#4. The writers are very good about misdirection and changeups, and that's what's great about it. We always think we know what's going to happen and then they throw a curveball that you don't see coming.

Mike Colter

#5. Conversing with children is a fine art ... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word.

Miriam Toews

#6. Always quick with the wit. It's your defense, isn't it? Little girl doesn't want the world to know how sad she is, how damaged. Your words, your attitude, all a big misdirection. A magician's trick.

Chuck Wendig

#7. The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.

David Mamet

#8. Psychological complexity, character development, the killer line to end a scene, villains blotched with virtue, heroic characters speckled with villainy, foreshadow and backflash, artful misdirection.

David Mitchell

#9. Magic consists of creating, by misdirection of the senses, the mental impression of supernatural agency at work. That, and only that, is what modern magic really is, and that meaning alone is now assignable to the term.

John Nevil Maskelyne

#10. I realised how much misdirection is in stunt co-coordinating. It's similar to magic, the tricks we use to make people think the stunt is real. I also have a lifelong fascination with gambling cheats. I'm not one, but I do have a fascination with it.

Steve Truglia

#11. Miseducation = Misdirection

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. Charley wondered how it happened that men of the cloth always seemed to misunderstand the ways of the Lord. If you wanted protection you had to ask for money or love, and He would give you protection instead. Prayer was a study in misdirection...

Pete Dexter

#13. Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.

Robert F. Kennedy

#14. It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing true and lit with surprise.

Geoffrey Wood

#15. Kelsier smiled. Gods, it appeared, could still fall for a classic misdirection con.

Brandon Sanderson

#16. We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.

Joseph Lowery

#17. We're a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don't believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.

Scott Lynch

#18. Film and theater are about misdirection and making the audience see something. I find it interesting. One of the things we do in 'True Blood' is shoot all of our stunts in camera. Instead of doing some kind of visual effect, we try to make it happen.

Stephen Moyer

#19. Finn was an enigma wrapped in a riddle coated in misdirection. He was a burrito of dishonesty.

Molly Harper

#20. Misdirection is one of my strengths,

Erin Morgenstern

#21. The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

Jeff VanderMeer

#22. FAUSTUS. To have fooled the philosopher.
MAGUS. One finds, in my profession, sir, the greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.
FAUSTUS. One finds the same in mine.

David Mamet

#23. We use committees for all the ulterior purposes for which they might have been designed: diffusion of executive responsibility, plausible deniability, misdirection, providing the appearance of activity without the substance, and protecting the guilty.

Charles Stross

#24. I've been doing the hotel accounting long enough to know that two and two equals whatever you want it to be. It's simply a matter of perception and misdirection.

Jana Deleon

#25. Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

William Least Heat-Moon

#26. Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's claims.

Rush Limbaugh

#27. There I am in my younger days, star gazing
Painting picture perfect maps
Of how my life and love would be
Not counting the unmarked paths of misdirection
My compass, faith in love's perfection
I missed ten million miles I should have seen.

Indigo Girls

#28. Misdirection only comes from someone that has lost their way.

Shannon L. Alder

#29. Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

Richard Whately

#30. Is the goal I've set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#31. I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

Barack Obama

#32. A small bad intention is often far more easily believed than a big one, Magnificence

Raymond E. Feist

#33. If truth is relative, then it's cousin is anarchy.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#34. a finger pointing with particular aim too far from the goal in effect points at everything.

Lindsey Drager