Deborah Meaden Quotes

It doesn't matter if the truth is right there out in front of your eyes. You will find a way, a mechanism, in order to keep your own system of denial. So as I always say it, denial is a river that runs in the - in Egypt. So we became very good in that.

Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.

I'm very good at denial.

To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

Denial is a very powerful thing.

Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves

We have a never sated appetite for self deception.

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

I have this want-to-be-liked thing, but deep down, I had this rage. I was just - I was blinded. I wasn't healthy enough to be able to learn more. I had one mode - to fight.

You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.

In no way did I allow reality as it was to intrude on reality as I wanted it to be.

It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.

To deceive ones selfe is very easie.

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

The moment you believe your own crap and excuses, you fail.

Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

I told myself it was the snow—she couldn’t possibly get to Philadelphia on the roads. I told myself a hundred lies. Children do that. It’s amazing the sorts of things you’ll make yourself believe.

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.