#tricks

My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful. ↗

— Kim Wilde

#careful #early #early age #father #made

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

#challenge #change #eyes #greatest #greatest challenge

The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart. ↗

— Rasmus Lerdorf

#file #playing #smart #tar #tricks

May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#armies #banners #defeat #ever #force

The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn. The more I do it, the more I'm humbled. I'm just always trying to get better at it. I pick up a few tricks along the way. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#always #because #better #come #feel

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

— Mark Hyman

#dirty #getting #into #metabolism #plays

He taught me how to fly on my own and learn the tricks. ↗

— Izabella Scorupco

#how #learn #me #my own #own

Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until they had laughed, because laughter opens and frees from rigid preconception. Humans had to have tricksters within the most sacred ceremonies for fear that they forget the sacred comes through upset, reversal, surprise. The trickster in most native traditions is essential to creation, to birth. ↗

— Byrd Gibbens

#trickster #art

Every game has its Jacks,' she said, the sadness of it pulling down the elation of sudden understanding. 'The thing that acts as a wild card. It can't be counted on or predicted. A weapon, even. But he's in other places, too, isn't he? And do you know what else a Jack is, Puck?...I do. ↗

— Ruth Frances Long

#jenny #puck #riddles #tricks #wren

No, no, no, Landemere. This time I'm putting my foot down. I mean it. Don't think you're going to smear syrup on my beard, as we say in Ramaldah. You're not making me change my mind by sweet talking me. I know your tricks, and I won't fall for them. ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#no #sayings-in-ramaldah #sweet-talking #talking-tricks #change