Mindfulness is a quality that’s always there. It’s an illusion that there’s a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you’re either mindful or you’re not. – Richard Gere
Anyone who believes that it is possible to educate the will without cultivating the insight that enlivens it is succumbing to illusion. Clear-sightedness on this point is a task for present-day pedagogy, but it can come only from a life-filled understanding of the whole human being. – Rudolf Steiner
I don’t have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock ‘n’ roll could change anything – I don’t believe that. I’ve changed. – Roger Daltrey
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don’t do formal debates, because formal debates where you have two people up on a stage in equal status, and each of them is given 20 minutes to give their point of view, and then 10 minutes for a rebuttal, or whatever, that creates the illusion that you really do have here two equal points of view of equal scientific standing. – Richard Dawkins
I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler. – Perry Christie
No Christians I know who are supporting Trump are under the illusion that The Donald is a seasoned student of Scripture. – Robert Jeffress
For a found-footage-style movie, there’s a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it’s real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief. – Oren Peli
Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen. – Vladimir Putin
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered. – Stanley Kubrick
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. – Woody Allen
I’ve never really had a waist. Even when I was at my slimmest, my silhouette was very straight up, straight down. But I have learnt how to give myself a bit of waist by optical illusion. For this, bring on the belts. – Twiggy