Tricks Quotes - Page 33

• My favorite chip trick is to make everyone's chip stack disappear.

  Amarillo Slim

  My Favorite, Disappear, Chips

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• You're wondering what a bale of hay has to do with success. Well, there's a trick to loading hay. You have to use your knee. What you do is, you put your right knee behind it and half kick it up in the air. That way you get some lift on it. ... My point is, there are certain ways to make a hard job easier.

  Pat Summitt

  Jobs, Air, Hay

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• He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Two, Three

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.8, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.

  Nicholas Cresswell

  Government, Revolution, Slave

  Nicholas Cresswell (2007). “The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell”, Applewood Books

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• Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Brother, Integrity, Simple

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• Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way.

  Rumi

  Real, Heart, Sacrifice

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• Friends now fast sworn,
  Whose double bosoms seems to wear one heart,
  Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise
  Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love,
  Unseparable, shall within this hour,
  On a dissension of a doit, break out
  To bitterest enmity; so fellest foes,
  Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep
  To take the one the other, by some chance,
  Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends
  And interjoin their issues.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Heart, Sleep

  William Shakespeare, Lee Bliss (2000). “Coriolanus”, p.221, Cambridge University Press

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• These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.

  William Shakespeare

  Rome, Sloth, Cardinals

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Henry VIII! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.146, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Practice. Learn and then unlearn - that's the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can't merely emulate, you have to innovate, or at the very least create your own path into the process.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Life, Practice, Style

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• The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.

  Immanuel Kant

  Skills, Understanding, Soul

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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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• Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

  Paulo Coelho

  Play, Survival, Roles

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• The lion in the jungle makes every other animal sit up and take notice as soon as he lets out a roar. He didn't get that way through artificial paraphernalia or through springs and wires and trick dumbells. He became the king of the jungle through constant natural use of every muscle in his body.

  Charles Atlas

  Kings, Spring, Animal

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• The birth of excellence begins with our awareness that our beliefs are a choice. We usually don't think of it that way, but belief can be a conscious choice. You can choose beliefs that limit you, or you can choose beliefs that support you. The trick is to choose the beliefs that are conducive to success and the results you want and to discard the ones that hold you back.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Thinking, Support You

  Tony Robbins (2008). “Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and that has really changed the life of my work - I found a way to trick myself into being intuitive.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Needs, Way

  "Chuck Close: 'Important Works on Paper'". Interview with Stephanie Wright Hession, www.sfgate.com. September 4, 2013.

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• Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Sweet, Dirty, Thinking

  "Diet Drinks: Helpful or Harmful to Kick the Sugar Habit?" by Mark Hyman, MD, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 14, 2012.

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• In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy.

  Peter Mandelson

  Party, Dirty, Technology

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• The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Witty, Truth, Philosophical

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• You know, and it really doesn't have a lot to do with the movie. That's the trick to doing a good musical is that, if you take that music number out, there's less to the movie there. You would miss it.

  Trey Parker

  Missing You, Numbers, Musical

  "Interview: Trey Parker and Matt Stone". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.

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• I'm in the collard green 6 cornbread in the guts Got the Halloween kicks trick or treat in the clutch

  Nicki Minaj

  Halloween, Green, Materialistic

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• Good times are a reminder and a reward for dealing with the difficult and challenging times we all go through. The trick is to celebrate the good times in advance of the difficult times. Always remember, good times await you after the difficult times pass.

  James A. Murphy III

  Challenges, Rewards, Good Times

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• Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

  Tom Baker

  Actors, Able, Madness

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• Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.

  Joseph Campbell

  Real, Knowing, Boat

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• Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Accuracy, Accurate, Reports

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• You must always steal, but only from the best people. Steal any trick that looks worthwhile. If you see Vivien Leigh or Robert DeNiro or Meryl Streep do something stunningly effective, and you can analyze how he or she did it, then pinch it. Because you can be sure that they stole it in the first place.

  Michael Caine

  People, Acting, Looks

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