Quotes
- "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
~Albert Einstein
- "Illusion is the first of all pleasures" ~Oscar Wilde
- Dare to dream the impossible
- "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ~Albert Einstein
- Do not go where the path may lead. Go where there is no path...and leave a trail.
- "Genius is the power to be a child again at will" ~James M. Barrie
- "Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business." ~Tim Robbins
- "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live." ~Mark Twain
- "None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them." ~Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, English author and Clergyman
- "It's kinda fun to do the impossible." ~Walt Disney
- "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious." ~Albert Einstein
- "Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do." ~Elizabeth Bowen
- "You say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one." ~John Lennon
- "Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."
~Robert Kennedy
- "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now." ~Goethe
- "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however." ~Richard Bach
- "The greatest pleasure in life, is doing the things people say we cannot do." ~Walter Bagehot
- "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." ~Albert Einstein
- "If you can dream it you can do it." ~Walt Disney
- "The best way to predict your future is to create it." ~Unknown
- "Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations." ~Jean Paul Richter
- "Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him." ~Aldous Huxley
- "The secret of success is constancy of purpose." ~Benjamin Disraeli
- "The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep." ~Wilson Mizner
- "If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play." ~John Cleese
- "You cannot rush genius!" ~Michael Matson
- "Indocilis privata loqui"
(We loathe to give up secrets)
- "Mundus vult decipi, decipiatur ergo"
(The world wants to be decieved, decieve it)
- "A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be." ~Marianne Williamson
- "If you take any activity, any art, and discipline, and skill, take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic." ~Tom Robbins
- "Genius does what it must, talent does what it can." ~E.G. Bulwer-Lytton: 1830-1873, British writer
- "Intense creativity does not come from a visionary outlook, but a visionary inlook." ~Unknown
- "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." ~Albert Einstein
- "The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." ~Alan Ashley-Pitt
- "No one is less cynical than a magician. He knows, and everyone else clearly knows, that everything he does is a sham. The trick is not really to deceive them, but to delight them into wanting to be deceived: so that for the space of a few minutes the grip of cause-and-effect is loosened, the laws of nature and countermanded. As Pascal put it in the Pensees 'It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.'" ~Paul Aster
- "A conjurer is nothing if he only amuses and fails to inspire wonder." ~Thomas Frost, The Lives of the Conjurers
- "Anything that deceives may be said to enchant." ~Plato
- "The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." ~ Walter Bagehot: 1826-1877
- "Imaginations, fantasies, illusions in which the things that cannot be, take place, and seem to be, and for the moment are." ~Longfellow
- "Tis magicke, magicke that hath ravisht me..."
"A sound magician is a mighty God."
"Nothing is so sweet as magic is to him, Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss." ~Dr. Faustus (Christopher Marlowe)
- "To wonder at nothing when it happens: to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass."
"Homo vult decipi;decipiatur."
(Man wishes to be deceived; deceive him.) ~Cicero
- "Our universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." ~Eden Phillpotts
- "Idle hands are the devil's playground, so occupy them with the devil's tool." ~Michael speaking about a deck of cards.
More to come...
