a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.
We all have at least two sides. The world we live in is a world of opposites. And the trick is to reconcile those opposing things. I've always liked both sides. In order to appreciate one you have to know the other. The more darkness you can gather up, the more light you can see too.
With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don't have anything to do with them. Do not trust humanity without collateral security; it will play you some scurvy trick. Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled to respect until he shall prove himself a friend worthy of affection. Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths. And, finally, most important of all, endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Regret is something you’ve got to just live with, you can’t drink it away. You can’t run away from it. You can’t trick yourself out of it. You’ve just got to own it.
We don't really have a star system in Canada, so to try and get people to watch your show or stand-up is always a challenge. That's the trick.
If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.
Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it
I feel like it's always important to curl your eyelashes. I always do when I wake up and you know you look tired, when you curl eyelashes and put mascara it makes such a huge difference, so that's the trick that I always use.
The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.
WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one’s perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that’s the trick.
Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.
Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.
People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.
It's a really unique job that is a little schizophrenic and you have to kind of do it with a sense of humor. The trick is figuring out what each job is asking of you and what it's not asking of you.
It's really hard to be a black Republican. I see what they go through. It's a good little trick the entire mainstream media has pulled by describing Republicans as "Racist! Racist! Racist!" and then turning around and laughing at us for not having more blacks in our party.
All businesses make mistakes. The trick is to avoid large ones.
An idea which can be used once is a trick. If it can be used more than once it becomes a method.
To be diagnosed was the hardest thing because I didn't know what they were talking about. . . And the doctor said, Don't worry, in three months you'll know. So I went about my business and then, one day, it jumped me. I couldn't get up. . . Your muscles trick you; they did me.
Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.