Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate. The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
In the Japanese movie's they're throwing everything they have at him, every missile, but he keeps coming, he can't be stopped and that represents death. There's nothing you can do to stop it, to keep yourself from dying. You can try every trick in the book and it still won't prevent it.
Almost any trick can be improved by thinking through it slowlyThe first step is to not blink
It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
Ego's trick is to make us lose sight of our interdependence. That kind of ego-thought gives us a perfect justification to look out only for ourselves. But that is far from the truth. In reality we all depend on each other and we have to help each other. The husband has to help his wife, the wife has to help the husband, the mother has to help her children, and the children are supposed to help the parents too, whether they want to or not.
Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.
All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.
How do we thank an angel? Somehow I don’t think a fruit basket will do the trick. " ~ Amun
The trick is growing up without growing old.
The trick of successful investors is to sell when they want to, not when they have to.
I can kind of picture what I want to do and my body just does it. You feel your way through a trick. I close my eyes sometimes.
The trick to education is to teach people in such a way that they don’t realize they’re learning until it’s too late.
I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time.
Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.
The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.
On GM crops: I think we've missed a trick there. We could develop wheat with the properties of velcro, to catch whatever it is that's forming those crop circles. But then the spaceship would have to have the corresponding velcro so it's a bit of a long shot.
The trick is that you have to stay naked. You must be naked.
There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. It’s always heartbreaking.
Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
A great piece of comedy is a verbal magic trick.