Tricks Quotes

Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.

Learning a [skateboard] trick is kind of like a puzzle; you have to keep trying, and trying, and trying, and adapting and changing, and adapting and changing, and finally it works.

Movies are like magic tricks.

The trick is, when there is nothing to do, do nothing.

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

A truly beautiful woman is always good and the other women, and to people in general. She rejects rivalry, intrigue and dirty tricks.

Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.

I was labeled as a tricky player early on and have been regarded as tricky throughout my whole career. It was said that I was able to pull out tricks from nowhere.

No better love than love with no objective, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up tricks and cleverness, that would be the cleverest trick!

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

It's empowering for women to have some tricks up their sleeve to help them look their best.

I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live.

I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic.

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

Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting.

The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

It is hard to teach an old dog tricks.

The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.

If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.

You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don't want to see the dog doing them.

If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.

It's easy to see things you're lookin' for. The trick is to see things you're not looking for.

Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.

The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.

It takes more than some mind games, a couple of parlor tricks, to get under my skin.

The trick is to learn to see with your heart, not with your eyes

How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze

"Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I'll just show you this one." He showed me three.

Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing.

I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.

No one can tell me what to do on my skateboard. My skateboard is my safe spot. I can learn tricks, I can have fun, I can do whatever I want on my skateboard.

If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else.

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.

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

The trick of successful investors is to sell when they want to, not when they have to.

Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone.

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.

The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

The spirits are an age-old theme, a story from darkest history, and therefore a presentational anchor that can be used with many different magic tricks.

Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.

Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.

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.

It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.

Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.