Trick Quotes

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

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

But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.

The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life’s negative moments.

Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.

The trick to enjoy this, and see it as a part – of the process.

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they’d word something or how they’d inflect it.

School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.

I was a little one-trick pony. I do what I’ve always done. That’s really where my best stuff comes from. I don’t know how it happens. It just happens.