Topic: Trickery

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Thomas Merton

Monk, Writer, Theologian, Mystic, Poet, Social Activist

True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.
Psychology - Trickery
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Ernest Hemingway

Journalist, Novelist

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.
Trickery
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Stephenie Meyer

Novelist, Film Producer

He’s playing every bit as hard as I am, only he knows what he’s doing and I don’t. Don’t blame me because he’s a better manipulator than I am — I haven’t been around long enough to learn all his tricks.
Haven - Manipulation - Trickery
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Stephen King

Writer

Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books— of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone’s favorite, the john. You can even read while you’re driving, thanks to the audiobook revolution. Of the books I read each year, anywhere from six to a dozen are on tape.
Boredom - Creativity - Drive - Making - Show - Teaching - Trickery - Wellness
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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.
Simple - Trickery
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Steven Spielberg

Film Producer, Film Director, Screenwriter

It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word.
Familiarity - Making - Trickery - Writing
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Woody Allen

Director, Writer, Actor, Comedian

All over the world, relationships between men and women are very, very tricky and very difficult and you don't learn anything. It's not an exact science, so you can't learn anything. You're always going by instinct and your instinct betrays you because you want what you want when you want it.
Betrayal - Difficulty - Man - Trickery - Wants
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Matthew McConaughey

Actor, Producer

The hardest thing was going through different stages of weight loss. At the beginning, it was easy to take off the weight with exercise and eating less but then you reach a point where 90 per cent of the weight loss is achieved purely through reducing your calorie intake. My goal was to lose four pounds per week. That worked well for the first few months but then things got tricky.
Calorie - Goals - Loss - Reduction - Trickery - Wellness
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Geoffrey Chaucer

Poet, Author

For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We must endure it, that's the long and short.
Endurance - Giving - Heavens - Trickery
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Quentin Tarantino

Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Producer

In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at. And the audiences of 1978 would chuckle at what the audience of 1966 said was okay, too. The trick is to try to be way ahead of that curve, so they're not chuckling at your movies 20 years down the line.
Accept - Trial - Trickery
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Simone de Beauvoir

Writer, Philosopher, Political Activist, Social Theorist

This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.
Feminism - Loss - Trickery
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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.
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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph.
Courting - Making - Trickery - Wants
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John Muir

Naturalist, Environmentalist, Author, Philosopher

All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.
Plan - Trickery - Wild
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Frank Lloyd Wright

Architect, Interior Designer, Educator

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
Growing - Trickery
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C. S. Lewis

Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude it, the question "What on earth is he up to now?" will intrude. It lays one's devotion waste. There is really some excuse for the man who said, "I wish they'd remember that the charge to Peter was Feed my sheep; not Try experiments on my rats, or even, Teach my performing dogs new tricks.
Earth - Experimenting - Man - Meaning - Performance - Remembering - Teaching - Trial - Trickery - Wishing
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Steve Martin

Comedian, Actor, Musician, Writer, Filmmaker

I loved magic, and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours because I was told that you must practice, you must practice and never present a trick before it's ready.
Trickery
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J. R. R. Tolkien

Writer, Poet, Philologist

Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.
Character - Heroism - Trickery - Value
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Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher

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.
Deceiving - Effectiveness - Man - Performance - Trickery - Witness
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Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher, Writer, Translator, Historian, Mathematician

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.
Miracle - Persuasion - Trickery
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John Cleese

Actor, Comedian, Screen Writer, Producer

By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.
Trickery
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Ingrid Bergman

Actress

A kiss is a lovely trick to stop speech.
Romance - Speaking - Stop - Trickery
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Albert Camus

Philosopher, Author, Journalist

When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.
Linguistics - Maintenance - Show - Solution - Speaking - Trickery
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Jerry Seinfeld

Comedian, Actor, Writer, Producer, Director

I'll tell you one of the great activities is skateboarding. To learn to do a skateboard trick, how many times do you gotta get something wrong til you get it right? ...And you hurt yourself, and you learn to do that trick, now you got a life lesson. Every time I see those skateboard kids, I think 'those kids'll be alright.'
Hurting - Trickery
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Bill Gates

Business Magnate, Investor, Humanitarian

There's always a tricky issue when you get into stolen material or pornography. The laws for online publishing the same as for print-based publishing, where if you're hosting certain types of things and somebody notifies you about that.
Certainty - Stealing - Trickery
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Steve Wozniak

Engineer, Inventor, Programmer, Entrepreneur

It's can you, Steve Wozniak, design the same computer - maybe it's a Varian 620i - can you design it on paper with fewer chips than last month? Can you design it with 79 chips instead of 80 chips? I had played this game so long that I had all these little tricks in my head that I can't even explain... Nothing was wasted; absolutely zero waste. I told this story recently to the Resource Recovery Association, recycling, and they loved to hear I didn't believe in waste.
Belief - Game - Story - Trickery
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RuPaul

Actor, Model, Singer, Songwriter, TV Personality

To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick.
End - Trickery
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Tupac Shakur

Rapper, Writer, Actor

Recollect your thoughts don't get caught up in the mix ,cause the media is full of dirty tricks.
Trickery
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George Harrison

Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Producer

Through Yoga, anybody can attain; it's a God realisation; you just practise Yoga and if you really mean it, then you'll do it. There's Yogis that have done it to such a degree that they're God, they're like Christ and they can walk on the water and materialise bodies and they can do all those tricks.
Meaning - Trickery
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Stephen King

Writer

Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.
Abandonment - Belief - Reading - Trickery
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John Steinbeck

Writer, War Correspondent

I start out to write five days a week, and then it runs to six days and finally seven. Then, eventually, that wave of weariness overwhelms me and I don't know what's the matter. That is, I know but I won't admit it. I'm just tired from writing. As you get older, writing becomes harder. By that I mean you see so many more potentialities. Things like transition used to trouble me. But not any more. When I say it's harder, I'm not talking about facility. You learn all the so-called tricks, but then you don't want to use them.
Meaning - Talk - Transitioning - Trickery - Wants
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John Locke

Philosopher, Physician

As children's inquiries are not to be slighted, so also great care is to be taken, that they never receive deceitful and illuding answers. They easily perceive when they are slighted or deceived, and quickly learn the trick of neglect, dissimulation, and falsehood, which they observe others to make use of. We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children; since, if we play false with them, we not only deceive their expectation, and hinder their knowledge, but corrupt their innocence, and teach them the worst of vices.
Deceiving - Expectation - Hindrance - Perception - Playing - Taking - Teaching - Trickery
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