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“Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.”

Two Important Asks Knowing Tricks Why Not Important Questions

Book:Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now

Source: Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now

“The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.”

Country Would Be Three Difficult Cities Knowing Four Demand Meetings Prepared Tricks Extras Afternoon Senate Twelve Friday Council Realised Reactionaries Julius Lunchtime Friday Afternoon

Author:Ken Livingstone

“What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it's actually something that will appeal to a family, that's the trick.”

People Ideas Able Laughing Knowing Balance Jokes Adults Tricks Appeals Funny Things Animated Animated Movies

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what we used to mean by being "wised up" knowing the tricks, the shortcuts.”

Mean Used Creative Knowing Taken Sells Tricks Be Creative Being Wise Shortcuts

Author:Pauline Kael

“I believe, or sense, that the universe has not been constructed from a purely mechanical, logical, rational point of view, but there is a magic afoot in the universe, that God can be looked at as a kind of a magician in which we get to perform tricks ourselves, without knowing that we're doing so.”

Believe Kind Universe I Believe Views Knowing Magic Point Of View Tricks Rational Logical Magician

Author:Fred Alan Wolf

“The trick generally is to break programs into pieces and have those pieces be individually testable and so then when you move on to the other pieces you treat it as a black box knowing that it either works or doesn't work.”

Moving Black Break Knowing Pieces Program Treats Boxes Tricks Black Boxes

Author:Bill Gates