T Quotes
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“The trick to having an incorrect take almost 100% of the time is in being tethered to some socio-political narrative, and within that sphere, being tethered completely out of touch with your conscience.”
“The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.”
Source: Where Good Ideas Come From
“The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option”
“The trick to keeping your meditation practice alive, not simply consistent but wonderful, is you need to bring a certain will or force into every meditation.”
“The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't.”
“The trick to living life is to search for happiness, passion, and love, in anything—and everything—that you do.”
Source: Counting Stars
“The trick to loneliness is to spend a lot of time inside one’s head.”
Source: O Pijama da Gata
“The trick to looking cool is not caring whether you look cool. so the momentyou achieve perfect coolness is simultaniously the moment that you actually, completely don't care.”
Source: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes.”
“The trick to not being discovered until it is too late is to become part of the expected surroundings. Stealth is more the art of blending in with the background than sneaking through dark shadows.”
Source: King of Foxes
“The trick to not growing old is to: Stay curious. Keep your teeth. Stay hopeful. Do everything gracefully, yet kick when you have to.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“The trick to not thinking is not adding energy to the equation in an effort to forcibly stop thinking from happening. It’s more a matter of subtracting energy from the equation in order not to barf the thoughts up and start chewing them over again.”
Source: Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye
“The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.”
“The trick to realize that the boys who talk so much about being rejected that it seems like the’re proud of it aren’t necessarily sweeter or more sensitive than the Bababooey-spouting frat bullies who line up at clubs like SkyBar to run game on girls they want to date rape. There are plenty of nerds who fear women and aren’t sensitive, despite their marketing; they just dislike women in a new, exciting way. Timid racists aren’t sensitive because they lock their car doors when they see a black person on the street. They’re just too scared to get out of the car and shout the “N” word.
Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt. When I see squeamish guys passing over qualified women when they’re hiring for a job, or becoming tongue tied when a girl crashes their all-boy conversation at a party, I don’t give them credit for being awestruck. They’re reacting to the intimidating female as an intruder, an alien, and somebody they can’t relate to. It’s not a compliment to be made invisible.”
Source: I Don't Care About Your Band: Lessons Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated
“The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it.”
“The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.”
“The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don't accidentally put your head in a noose.”
Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory
“The trick to taking the paper off the crayons...is to just do it. There is no trick.”
“The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see.”
“The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words.”
“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.”
“The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.”
“The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed.”
“The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.”
“The trick was to eke out the milk because if you came to the last and there was none left it was almost impossible to swallow. Best of all, of course, was to save a drop until everything was eaten, the milk never tasted as good as then, when it no longer had to fulfill a function, kit ran down your throat in its own right, pure and uncontaminated, but unfortunately it was rare for me to manage this. The needs of the moment always trumped promises of the future, however enticing the latter.”
“The trick was to let everyone think that I couldn’t feel at all. The trick was to make everyone believe that I was only what they made of me.”
Source: Dominion
“The trick when it comes to dealing with depression is being able to imagine yourself out of it. When you can picture a happier life, you will be determined to work at the things that prevent it from happening.”
“The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.”
“The trick with getting Windows 10 to work well on my 2011 Windows 7 laptop computer was to use a HDMI cable and plug it into a full High Definition (HD) 1920x1080 resolution computer monitor at 60Hz as the sole display.”
“The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's better than yours. I can out-rap you, I can out-dance you, my graffiti piece is better than you." It's very competitive.”
“The trick, you see, is to build your house from the bricks of your own soul, not from the whispers of the crowd.”
“The trick, my brethren and sisters is to enjoy the journey, traveling hand in hand, in sunshine and storm, as companions who love one another.”
“The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when we draw healthy pleasure and confidence from our creative processes.”
Source: The Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture
“The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real feelings. Mean-spirited humor turns the world into cardboard, the way Midas's simple-minded greed turned food into inedible and useless stuff.”
“The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.”
“The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great!”
“The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own, through their no doubt lavish spending, upon those who stand below them on the economic ladder. Notice that the metaphor is not that of a gushing waterfall but of a leaking tap: even the most optimistic endorsers of this concept do not picture very much real flow, as their language reveals" pg. 102.”
“The tricks and artifices of advertising are available to the seller of the better product no less than to the seller of the poorer product. But only the former enjoys the advantage derived from the better quality of his product.”
Source: Human Action
“The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.”
“The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.”
“The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.”
“The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors.”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.”
Source: Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962
“The tricky part about discovering our giftedness is that it may be in an area that feels unexpected.”
Source: The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers: Reclaiming Our Passion, Purpose, and Sanity
“The tricky part of religion is that once you are praying to the wrong name, all your efforts will be seen as wasted. Sending your package to the wrong address.”
“The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.”
Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
“The tricky thing about the hood is that you’re always working, working, working, and you feel like something’s happening, but really nothing’s happening at all.”
Source: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.”
“The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the world.”
“The Trifecta Plot by Stewart Stafford
Break moneyed bread,
and a morsel of food,
is now a parcel of land.
Entreat in obsequious sell,
and the jewel of their loins,
is wed of beauteous hand.
Purloin the coffers golden,
and a cutpurse rules as king,
with no forswearing planned.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”