“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Eric Barker • Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
We’re all fictional characters. We’re the partial, biased, stubborn creations of our own minds.
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
As Oscar Wilde is thought to have said, “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken”:
Timothy Ferriss • Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
The common situation—and the one you should treat as true—is that we are deeply flawed humans pretending to be otherwise.
Scott Adams • Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America
“We are so used to disguising ourselves from others that we often end up by disguising ourselves from ourselves.”
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage. — Claude M. Bristol
Iris Murdoch’s words: “Man is a creature who makes pictures of himself and then comes to resemble the picture.”
David Brooks • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be,” said Cary Grant, “until finally I became that person. Or he became me.”