Quotes about Trickery

Richard Dawkins

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop,sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop

Sometimes - Trickery

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Pema Chodron

Designer, Clergyman, Nun

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. That's what we're going to discover again and again and again. Nothing is what we thought. I can say that with great confidence. Emptiness is not what we thought. Neither is mindfulness or fear. Compassion––not what we thought. Love. Buddha nature. Courage. These are code words for things we don't know in our minds, but any of us could experience them. These are words that point to what life really is when we let things fall apart and let ourselves be nailed to the present moment.

Compassion - Emptiness - Exploration - Fall - Mindfulness - Mindset - Trickery

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two.

Animals - Challenge - Commanding - Distinction - Doing - Intelligence - Kindness - Knowledge - Obedience - Real - Research - Simple - Trickery

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Pablo Picasso

Painter, Sculptor, Poet, Playwright

We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.

Trickery

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Thomas Paine

Philosopher, Founding Father of the United States

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?

Creativity - Show - Trickery

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Harry S. Truman

33rd U.S. President

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

Politics - Trickery

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Charles Dickens

Writer, Social Critic

For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.

Trial - Trickery

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Martin Luther

Theologian, Professor, Monk

God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God's will. 'Tis you women, with your tricks and artifices, that lead men into error.

Creativity - Man - Mastering - Trickery

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Orson Welles

Actor, Director, Writer, Producer

I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon.

Trickery

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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills.

Inferiority - Man - Mindset - Religion - Selecting - Trickery - Vanity - Whole

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Warren Buffett

Business Magnate, Investor, Speaker

I find that the standard of living does not go up in proportion with the cost of living. The trick in life is to do things that are fun all the time.

Trickery

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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone trying to sell you that line is no better than a three-card-trick man. One thing becoming more clear every day is that freedom and progress go hand in hand. Throughout the developing world, people are rejecting socialism because they see that it doesn't empower people, it impoverishes them.

Development - Economy - Empowerment - Man - Progression - Reject - Trial - Trickery - Wellness

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Bill Gates

Business Magnate, Investor, Humanitarian

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

Trickery - Writing

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Alexander Pope

Poet

Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.

Accounting - Curiosity - Human - Ingenuity - Show - Trickery

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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.

Animals - Conceal - Mastering - Trickery

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Dr. Seuss

Author, Cartoonist, Animator

Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to do tricks with pacing, alternate long sentences with short, to keep it vital and alive.... Virtually every page is a cliffhanger--you've got to force them to turn it."~

Dependence - Meaning - Trickery

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C. S. Lewis

Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.

Trickery

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Warren Buffett

Business Magnate, Investor, Speaker

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.

Trickery

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Elon Musk

Entrepreneur, Investor, Engineer

It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today.

Trickery - Yielding

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poet, Critic, Philosopher, Theologian

Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

Trickery

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