“The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.” IfsKnowsMenImportantPlayHe ManLessonsGunShotsTricksHipsWinnerShootingPoisonContemptOfficersFrontiersImportant LessonsFlashy Author:Wyatt Earp
“You will say these are very small sins... [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts” IfsMenDoeMatterLightCan DoSinHellEffectsHe ManMurderEdgesTricksCardsGentleSlopesMilestoneCumulativeScrewtape LettersSignposts Author:C. S. Lewis
“The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.” MenTwoThreeGenerationsHe ManFairsTricksMeant To BeThree TimesThree Generations Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
“In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth.” MenMayEndsWealthRichFailingHe ManSourceAchievementStructureInvestingFinancialTricksGoldenInvestorsTransformedCan NotAlchemyAccountingAlchemistGullibleBecome Rich Author:Warren Buffett
“I would tell any actress that the trick is to play all the female characters on your show, and then all the men are yours.” MenPlayCharacterShowsHe ManFemaleActressesTricksFemale Characters Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar
“Acting is a trick word invented in the festival of Dionysus, before Christ, in Greece at a fertility festival. That's where theatre came from: a fertility festival. No women were allowed. All the men played all the parts.” MenChristActingHe ManTheatreTricksFestivalsGreeceFertilityDionysus Author:Gary Busey