I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.
I always believe that if you feel good and look happy, you're always going to be beautiful. My one actual beauty trick is pretty cliche: Never, ever go to bed with your makeup on.
Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.
It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.
The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it.
If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.
You can go to India and you can see gurus go into samadhi. But when they come out of samadhi, they're nasty. They're egocentric. They don't have a deep regard or understanding of what life is. It's just a little trick they can do, a one-trick pony.
Trick names are so ridiculous!
It's official. Highway patrolmen are not susceptible to the Jedi Mind Trick.
At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know too much," or at least never to reveal one's full abilities to management, because "the more they think you can do, the more they'll use you and abuse you. " My mentors in these matters were not lazy; they just understood that there are few or no rewards for heroic performance. The trick lies in figuring out how to budget your energy so there'll be some left over for the next day.
See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.
The trick is simply to avoid jerks. There are lots of them out there. Most people are unhappy.
There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.
There is no substitute for hard work. If you're looking for the easy way, if you're looking for the trick, you might get by for a while, but you will not be developing the talents that lie within you. There is simply no substitute for work.
I only do one thing at a time; otherwise, I get confused and then I can't trick you.
I think that it's an inexact science, but the trick is this: not to quit on anything too soon. All of this takes time. It's an investment.
People who believe in a divine creator, trying to live their lives in obedience to his supposed wishes and in expectation of a supposed eternal reward, are victims of the greatest confidence trick of all time.
Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.
I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live.
I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature.