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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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• Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.

  Esi Edugyan

  Long Ago, Littles, Canada

  Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan

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• It's true that all men are pigs. The trick is to tame one who knows how to find truffles.

  Lev L. Spiro

  Men, Pigs, Truffles

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• The sun beams are always there. The trick is in seeing them.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Sun, Beam, Seeing

  Laurence Gonzales (2017). “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why”, p.252, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

  Patrick deWitt

  Character, Luck, Way

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.74, Granta Books

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• What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.

  Marvin Minsky

  Intelligent, Perfect, Diversity

  Marvin Minsky (1988). “Society Of Mind”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?

  Thomas Paine

  Miracle, Needs, Creation

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.341

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• There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. It’s always heartbreaking.

  Ethan Hawke

  Real, Writing, Heartbreaking

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• I'm not a man. I have no male pride for you to trick me with, and I am not interested in single combat. That is entirely a weakness of your sex, not mine. I am a woman. I will use any weapon and all weapons to get what I want.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sex, Pride, Men

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• Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Otters, Giving

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• The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval, we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness, we are practicing harshness. The more we do it, the stronger these qualities become. How sad it is that we become so expert at causing harm to ourselves and others. The trick then is to practice gentleness and letting go. We can learn to meet whatever arises with curiosity and not make it such a big deal.

  Pema Chodron

  Letting Go, Practice, Curiosity

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• When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to doing this is to stay with emotional distress without tightening into aversion, to let fear soften us rather than harden into resistance.

  Pema Chodron

  Pain, Moving, Emotional

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• I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends to higher and higher levels. There is no end to this bootstrapping process. The future of the human mind and body and the future of humans together is endlessly bright.

  Terence McKenna

  Jobs, Thinking, Mind

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• I do not employ tricks when I attack.

  Max Immelmann

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• Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

  Steven Millhauser

  Dream, Stories, Conjuring

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• Horror, let's face it, is basically pretty dumb. You're writing about events that are preposterous, and the trick is to dress them up in language so compelling that the reader doesn't care.

  T. E. D. Klein

  Writing, Dumb, Events

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• What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?

  Alice Steinbach

  Memories, Purpose, Who We Are

  Alice Steinbach (2010). “Educating Alice”, p.147, Random House

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• There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love.

  Mike Mason

  Doctors, Drug, Coercion

  Mike Mason (1985). “Mystery of Marriage: Meditations on the Miracle”, Multnomah

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• This is the only real revelation — that God is only a trick with mirrors, our dark reflection in a glass.

  Philip Appleman

  Atheist, Real, Dark

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• Almost any trick can be improved by thinking through it slowlyThe first step is to not blink

  Jim Steinmeyer

  Thinking, Firsts, Steps

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• Ultimately every trick succeeds or fails with an audience because of its plot.

  Jim Steinmeyer

  Plot, Succeed, Failing

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• An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

  Alec Guinness

  Children, Men, Vanity

  Alec Guinness (1986). “Blessings in Disguise”, New York : Knopf

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• The trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources, and hence facilitate some [wealth] redistribution, because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level, to make sure that everybody's got a shot.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Government, Levels

  "Buchanan: 'Barack Obama Is a Drug Dealer of Welfare'". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. September 18, 2012.

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• If you spend too much time learning the 'tricks' of the trade, you may not learn the trade. There are no shortcuts. If you're working on finding a short cut, the easy way, you're not working hard enough on the fundamentals. You may get away with it for a spell, but there is no substitute for the basics. And the first basic is good, old fashioned hard work.

  John Wooden

  Hard Work, Cutting, Fundamentals

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