Tricks Quotes

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Benjamin Franklin

Enough, Honest, Practice

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best, Fox, Hedgehog

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Henry David Thoreau

Best, Nothing, Write

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.
Dave Brubeck

Mistakes, Before, Play

My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.
Muhammad Yunus

Change, Greatest, Eyes

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
Raymond Chandler

Art, End, Nothing

Movies are like magic tricks.
Jeff Bridges

I've done all my tricks. I'm tired of myself.
Sandra Bullock

No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.
Richard Simmons

Special, Desire, Takes

I've had dreams about tricks.
Shaun White

There's always room for improvement, but the judges are looking for big airs and stylish tricks.
Shaun White

Big, Looking, Room

What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.
Shaun White

Cool, Sports, Learn

There's tons of little tricks that that go into making the perfect shoe, but I think color, comfort is really important and different sizes of heels.
Jessica Simpson

Important, Different, Perfect

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra

Humility, Full, Clever

Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes.
James Wolcott

Through, Stars, Often

The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.
James Lovelock

Nothing, Toward, Happening

If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.
Leo Burnett

Art, Getting, Noticed

I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.
Christian Bale

Acting, Start, Movie

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.
Michelangelo Antonioni

Freedom, Trying, Find

We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.
Eric Liu

Politics, Positive, Bad

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Done, Country, Learned

Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.
Josef Albers

Work, Sense, Another

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.
J. J. Abrams

Movies, Feeling, Remember

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

Thinking, Brain, Getting

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.
Howard Nemerov

Nature, History, Poetry

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.
Edsger Dijkstra

Life, Nothing, Training

I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.
David Mitchell

Age, Great, Help

I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!
Ace Frehley

Great, Book, Working

Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.
Mark Ruffalo

Give, Learn, Chance

My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.
David Copperfield

Best, Old, Show

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