Tricks Quotes - Page 31

• This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween.

  Danny Elfman

  Halloween, Towns, Our Town

  Song: This Is Halloween, 1993

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• Selling concerns itself with the tricks and techniques of getting people to exchange their cash for your product. It is not concerned with the values that the exchange is all about. And it does not, as marketing invariable does, view the entire business process as consisting of a tightly integrated effort to discover, create, arouse and satisfy customer needs.

  Theodore Levitt

  Views, People, Effort

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• All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our noses pressed against the glass. But if we contemplate our own lives, not the phantom life on the other side, we might find things in them to envy-a family that’s intact; a job we like; excellent health (the thing we take for granted and on which all happiness depends). Good fortune is there, however sporadic, however modest, however difficult to achieve. The trick is to recognize it.

  James Atlas

  Jobs, Glasses, Envy

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• This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of magic tricks, especially those that depend fundamentally on mathematical ideas. They range over many delicious topics, giving us an enchanting personal view of the history and practice of magic, of mathematics, and of the fascinating connection between the two cultures. Magical Mathematics will have an utterly devoted readership.

  Barry Mazur

  Book, Unique, Views

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• You must acquire the trick of ignoring those who do not like you. In my experience, those who do not like you fall into two categories: the stupid, and the envious. The stupid will like you in five years time, the envious never.

  Stephen Jeffreys

  Stupid, Fall, Years

  "The Libertine". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• It's just that it's impossible to be a broken or whole person. You can only be a person. You can only exist, you can only belong to yourself, and you can only be responsible for your own happiness or belonging or whatever. That broken-part-piece-whole thing is just a trick of the mortal mind.

  Jackson Pearce

  Broken, Mind, Pieces

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• It's a bit counter-intuitive to think about the future in terms of the past. But...I've learned an important trick: to develop foresight, you need to practice hindsight. Technologies, cultures, and climates may change, but our basic human needs and desires - to survive, to care for our families, and to lead happy, purposeful lives - remain the same.' p 5

  Jane McGonigal

  Thinking, Past, Technology

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• "Cracking the Ice" scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner.

  Gregory Neri

  Book, Ice, Heartfelt

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• It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight! It is no trick at all to be right on the market. You always find lots of early bulls in bull markets and early bears in bear markets. I've known many men who were right at exactly the right time, and began buying or selling stocks when prices were at the very level which should show the greatest profit. And their experience invariably matched mine--that is, they made no real money out of it. Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• People who believe in a divine creator, trying to live their lives in obedience to his supposed wishes and in expectation of a supposed eternal reward, are victims of the greatest confidence trick of all time.

  Barbara Smoker

  Believe, People, Expectations

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• It is an old trick. The playgoer who does not like dirty plays is denounced as a prude; the music-lover who resents cacophony is told he is a pedant; and in all these matters the final crushing blow administered to the man of discrimination is the ascription to him of a hidebound prejudice against things that are new because they are new.

  Royal Cortissoz

  Crush, Dirty, Blow

  Royal Cortissoz (1916). “Art and common sense”

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• The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.

  Nigel Kneale

  Fun, Writing, Together

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• You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.

  Bob Dylan

  Clown, Jugglers

  Song: Like A Rolling Stone

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• The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell
  and not give a damn at the same time.

  Paul Simon

  Giving, Care, Hell

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• Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Commitment, Thinking, Issues

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• A great piece of comedy is a verbal magic trick.

  Chris Bliss

  Motivation, Inspiration, Magic

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• I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.

  Erik Estrada

  Giving, Actors, Honest

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• Systems don't need to be changed. The trick is for a trader to develop a system with which he is compatible.

  Ed Seykota

  Needs, Traders, Changed

  "Market Wizards". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.

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• Most people are bad with names. I have learned a trick: Make them laugh and they will never forget you.

  Mike Thompson

  Names, People, Laughing

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• Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.

  Sam Walton

  Guessing, Next, Predictable

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.315, Bantam

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• Someone asked me the other day if I believe in conspiracies. Well, sure. Here's one. It is called the political system. It is nothing if not a giant conspiracy to rob, trick and subjugate the population.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Believe, Political, Population

  Jeffrey Tucker (2012). “A Beautiful Anarchy: How to Create Your Own Civilization in the Digital Age”, p.319, Laissez Faire Books

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• Reverse psychology is an awesome tool, I don't know if you guys know about it, but basically you can make someone think the opposite of what you believe, and that tricks them into doing something stupid. Works like a charm.

  Steve Carell

  Stupid, Believe, Thinking

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• Always consider the qualifications of anyone who assumes or professes authority, what do they really know? Authorities on spirituality can rarely give a half coherent explanation of what they persuade us to believe they know. They achieve authority by stage management and then exploit audience suggestibility. Same old trick they have pulled for thousands of years.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Believe, Years, Giving

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• Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.

  Max McKeown

  Moving, Effort, Energy

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• The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when we draw healthy pleasure and confidence from our creative processes.

  John H. Lienhard

  Winning, Creative, Healthy

  John H. Lienhard (2003). “The Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture”, p.198, Oxford University Press

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