Sentence examples for tricking oneself from inspiring English sources

The shared bravado is a necessary ingredient, of course, not just for surviving the rigors of training but also for tricking oneself into believing it is all worth it, or was.

Occasionally, through this process of tricking oneself into just typing words, the radio transmissions will start again, and will align with the typing, and that is the best feeling in the world.

I did, and do, believe that tricking oneself is a pretty necessary trick for psychological survival.

If they come up short in the playoffs this year, there will be no tricking oneself into thinking they'll be even better next year.

She replies that both Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway "annoy me in the same way — one feels oneself tricked into feeling sympathy for entirely undeserving and rather tiresome people".

I see that as a kind of psychological trick on oneself, because the whole point about fiction is that it's invention.

As I understand it, the intellectual trick here is to convince oneself that fractional reserve banking, in which banks don't keep 100 percent of deposits in a vault, is somehow an artificial creation of the government.

Especially, she might add, when one finds oneself, through some horrid trick of fate, in the hotel suite next to the one occupied by a former spouse.

The trick, he added, is to not take oneself too seriously.

I often tell people the real trick to business success is to challenge oneself not to fail.

With humans, he added, this remarkable trick of incorporating a wheelchair as an extensive of oneself should be even easier, Nicolelis said.