#tells

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself. ↗

— Frederick Wiseman

#characters #discover #i #like #me

All serious poker players try to minimize their tells, obviously. There are a couple ways to go about this. One is the robotic approch: where your face becomes a mask and your voice a monotone, at least while the hand is being played. . . . The other is the manic method, where you affect a whole bunch of tics, twitches, and expressions, and mix them up with a river of insane babble. The idea is to overwhelm your opponents with clues, so they can't sort out what's going on. This approach can be effective, but for normal people it's hard to pull off. (If you've spent part of your life in an institution, this method may come naturally.) ↗

— Dan Harrington

#gambling #manic #poker #tells #nature

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#i #me #nobody #pins #tells

I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again? ↗

— Debbie Allen

#camera #everything #good #hit #i

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.' ↗

— Tori Amos

#hear #honey #i #know #like

I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#because #been #completely #cyclical #everything

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#believers #conscience #earnest #even #judgment

I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#know #me #monopoly #somebody #tells

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#brought #door #him #his #knocks

You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles. ↗

— Scott Adams

#argue #battles #candy #cents #dinner