When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward.
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.
One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.
I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.
The whole world is run on bluff.
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.