#tricks

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing. ↗

— Simon Callow

#hours #just #practising #spent #such

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty. ↗

— William Cobbett

#buoy #empty #falsehoods #last #long

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#avoids #aware #clever #competent #full

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#enough #fools #honest #practice #to be honest

I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it! ↗

— Ace Frehley

#book #great #i #i think #learned

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade. ↗

— Vernon Law

#learn #learning #never #people #some

We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions. ↗

— Eric Liu

#am #bad #balancing #big #campaigns

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#country #credible #done #fantastic #folk

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#chiefly #come #eliot #history #i

Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#always #because #carry #chance #craft