Magic Quotes - Page 37

• Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder, we are immediately reminded of the purity and innocence of our childhood. Then, everything was magical and mysterious. Magic should help us relive that wonder.

  Doug Henning

  Purity And Innocence, Hustle And Bustle, Childhood

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• To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Greatness, Years, Practice

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• Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Creative, Different, Stories

  "A completely real, not at all plagiarized interview with plagiarist Jonah Lehrer". MobyLives interview, www.mhpbooks.com. November 14, 2014.

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• There have been many beautiful women since Marilyn Monroe. But who is there that has her total magic? Nobody has that vulnerability any more. We turn to child models in an instinctive search for that innocence and freshness, but they don’t have the deep feminine sexuality that came from Marilyn like light.

  Bert Stern

  Beauty, Beautiful, Children

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• Do not make small goals because they do not have the magic to stir men's souls.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Men, Generosity, Goal

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• Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?

  Gillian Flynn

  Simple, Phrases, Understood

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.29, Crown

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• I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.

  Jimmy Page

  Writing, House, Devil

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• The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

  James Cameron

  Heart, Mind, Directors

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.116, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend

  Luke Wilson

  Girlfriend, Couple, Team

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• The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket.

  Deb Caletti

  Love, Sex, Drama

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Honey, Baby, Sweetheart”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented to what I do, but people seem to be able to hear it if they give it a chance. I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

  Don Van Vliet

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• When it comes to mastering a skill, time is the magic ingredient.

  Robert Greene

  Skills, Ingredients

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.86, Profile Books

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• Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Mean, Light, Self

  Dennis Kucinich's Address to the Praxis Peace Institute Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 9, 2002.

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• Remember, there are two things that keep us oppressed: them and us. We are half of the equation. There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it's now OK to express ourselves publicly. We must make that day ourselves, by speaking out publicly -- first in small numbers, then in greater numbers, until it's simply the way things are and no one thinks twice. Never doubt that we will create this world, because, my friends, we are fortunate to live in a democracy, and in a democracy, we decide what's possible.

  Tammy Baldwin

  Thinking, Small Numbers, Two

  "Tammy Baldwin, Our Voice of the Future" by Kristen Hotham Carroll, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world through the magic of imagination, creates this shock of recognition. Without this empathy there can be no genuine dialogue, and we as individuals and nations will remain isolated and alien, segregated and fragmented.

  Azar Nafisi

  Fate, Shoes, Imagination

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• If you think ahead to what to say next - like how to fix it or make the person feel better - BOOM! Off the board. You're into the future. Empathy requires staying with the energy that's here right now. Not using any technique. Just being present. When I have really connected to this energy, it's like I wasn't there. I call this "watching the magic show". In this presence, a very precious energy works through us that can heal anything, and this relieves me from my "fix-it" tendencies.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Feel Better, Thinking, Empathy

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• If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

  Van Jones

  Climate, Genius, Movement

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• If you are able to discover your own keynote or chord and play it over gently to yourself, you will revive as if by magic. Your keynote can be ascertained by listening to some good music. When the note is played it will send a thrill right through you.

  Vera Stanley Alder

  Music, Play, Over You

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• He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with it will find his spoon getting shorter and shorter--until that last supper in which he is left alone at the table, with no spoon at all and with an empty plate. The devil, one may guess, will by then have gone away to more interesting company.

  Peter L. Berger

  Gone Away, Long, Interesting

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• Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.

  Edward Albee

  Creativity

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• Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we tend to attribute its searing power to a kind of magic. But Gary Younge's meditative retrospection on its significance reminds us of all the micro-moments of transformation behind the scenes--the thought and preparation, vision and revision--whose currency fed that magnificent lightning bolt in history.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Dream, Kings, Rights

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• Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. To insist on analysing this force is to destroy its very essence.

  Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

  Music, Art, Essence

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• I got home, picked up my ax, turned on the four-track and just played it ... I played three solos back to back on Cemetery Gates ... the next morning, the second and third solos weren't bad, but the first had that first take magic ! .. I didn't touch it.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Music, Morning, Home

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• Wealth and fame can only be so important in the face of musical magic

  Graham Nash

  Music, Important, Faces

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• these hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go they do what they want to do. these hips are mighty hips. these hips are magic hips

  Lucille Clifton

  Black, Want, Hips

  Lucille Clifton (1980). “Two-headed woman”, Univ of Massachusetts Pr

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