Tricks Quotes - Page 10

• The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more than fidelity, consolation, and companionship. They offer comedy, irony, wit, and a wealth of anecdotes, the "shaggy dog stories" and "stupid pet tricks" that are commonplace pleasures of life.

  Marjorie Garber

  Dog, Stupid, Believe

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• They offer, if we are wise enough or simple enough to take it, a model for what it means to give your heart with little thought of return. Both powerfully imaginary and comfortingly real, dogs act as mirrors for our own beliefs about what would constitute a truly humane society. Perhaps it is not too late for them to teach us some new tricks.

  Marjorie Garber

  Wise, Dog, Real

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• It's quite a trick to use three instruments to tell the story of two people, but Vores carried it off; three, for once, is not a crowd. Each member of the trio gets important solos, but there is also a real ensemble character.

  Richard Dyer

  Real, Character, Two

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• A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy.
  An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a rather dull passenger roster of sanctioned curriculum, plus the baggage of an approved, limited vocabulary. The trick is to design your chartered bus to be as cool and sexy as a motorcycle.

  Mo Willems

  Sexy, Fun, Book

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• What's the difference between a Dice Clay concert and a Klan rally? Nothing. Trick question.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Differences, Clay, Dice

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• No better love than love with no objective, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up tricks and cleverness, that would be the cleverest trick!

  Rumi

  Giving Up, Would Be, Purpose

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• I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.

  David Bowie

  Accepting, I Can

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• Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Real, Discovery, Law

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”, p.162, My Ebook Publishing House

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• I started skiing when I was five years old. I grew up on a little 300-foot mountain called Perfect North Slopes. It wasn't a great destination in the world, but it was a good enough place to learn how to do tricks.

  Nick Goepper

  Years, Feet, Perfect

  "A conversation with Olympic freestyle skier Nick Goepper". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. February 2014.

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• We've separated from mogul and aerial skiing and we've built our own sport and our own tricks. And now we're going back to the roots. But the Olympics is a world stage for athletics and it's going to be pretty sweet to represent our sport and represent our culture and show everyone what we're all about.

  Nick Goepper

  Sports, Sweet, Roots

  "A conversation with Olympic freestyle skier Nick Goepper". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. February 13, 2014.

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• So after those Games, I continued to compete that season and the year after that. I really had the goal of being intentional. I didn't want to do big tricks because it was an X Games final or an Olympics final. I wanted to call my own shots. I started to do that and I started to have more fun than I ever knew I could have.

  Kelly Clark

  Fun, Years, Games

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• For me, a great show is when there's a great rapport with the band and the audience, and we're all really into it. The first trick is to bring the audience into the band, break the ice, have a life, and be one, so you can enjoy the next hour and a half together.

  Andy Summers

  Ice, Together, Band

  Source: collider.com

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• Showrunning is not a one-man job; it's literally impossible to do for one person. I have learned the hard way now from two seasons, one with Red Widow, and this, I can't control everything. I certainly have tried, but having an incredibly strong team around you, surrounding yourself with incredibly talented people, that is the trick, and I certainly had that for the first season here of Jessica Jones.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Strong, Jobs, Team

  Source: deadline.com

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• The definition of investment is the deferring ofpresent consumption for future consumption. So, you dohave to be willing to defer. And there are a couple of tricks that you can use to save money. One of them is simply to pay yourself first.

  William J. Bernstein

  Couple, Use, Definitions

  "A Young Person's Guide To Getting Rich Slowly". Interview with Robin Young, www.npr.org. June 16, 2014.

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• The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style - all mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

  E. B. White

  Simplicity, Style, Beginners

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.190, Cornell University Press

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• Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Skills, Proof, Treachery

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• Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art thou disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles thee? Is it the form of the thing? Look at it. Or is it the matter? Look at it. But besides these there is nothing. Towards the gods, then, now become at last more simple and better. It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Simple, Years

  Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”, p.214, tredition

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• I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog by blowing it up until its obstructiveness finally reveals not blank mass but unlooked-for seepage points of passage.

  Nicholson Baker

  Narrative, Way, Firsts

  Nicholson Baker (2011). “U and I: A True Story”, p.77, Vintage

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• The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.

  Henry James

  Girl, Imagination, Good Man

  Henry James (2016). “Henry James: The Complete Novels [The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, etc.] (Book House)”, p.886, Book House

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• The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation. We can quit a job, but we quit fresh involvement at our mental peril.

  William Safire

  Jobs, Stress, Exercise

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• With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.

  James Cook

  Medicine, Waiting, Treatment

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• The trick in life is not to die. The trick in investing is not to lose.

  Bruce Berkowitz

  Investing, Life Is, Dies

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• When you go out skating with your friends, you need one friend who knows how to take a good picture. Without the picture, there is no proof that you pulled the trick.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Skating, Needs, Proof

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The trick is to get people to read anything, to engender the love of reading. Once you can read, you can teach yourself anything. Librarians are key, I think. They hold the power to empower.

  Jane Cleland

  Reading, Thinking, Keys

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• I think it is undeniably true that the human brain must work in models. The trick is to have your brain work better than the other person's brain because it understands the most fundamental models- ones that will do most work per unit.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Brain, Fundamentals

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