Emotional Magician Quotes & Sayings

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. — Frank Sinatra

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. — Henry Kissinger

One of the saddest sentences I know is "I wish I had asked my mother about that." Or my father. Or my grandmother. Or my grandfather. As every parent knows, our children are not as fascinated by our fascinating lives as we are. — William Zinsser

Grumbling, as things are at present arranged in this world, does not always, nor I might say often, do good ... — Mary Louisa Molesworth

All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities. — Konrad Lorenz

My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us. — Ursula Burns

If it makes you feel better, I promise to forget. — Nicholas Sparks

Clever deceivers rarely tell outright falsehoods. It's too risky. The art of deception is closely related to the magician's craft: it involves knowing how to draw attention to a harmless place, to deflect it away from the action. Deeply entrenched patterns of perceptual, emotional, and cognitive dispositions serve as instruments of deception. A skilled deceiver is an illusionist who knows how to manipulate the normal patterns of what is salient to their audience. He places salient markers - something red, something anomalous, something desirable - in the visual field, to draw attention just where he wants it. — Clancy Martin

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage. — Arie De Geus

As an artist, i live in fantasy and flirt with reality. I'm an emotional magician of sorts. I paint my feelings onto the abstract canvas of a waking dream. I suspend my concepts in the ether's of otherworldly realms. This is the way my existence has always been. I am untethered, a traveler between worlds. I sinuously slip in and out of the real and surreal, until, they are one and the same. I do not like being shackled or chained, to the physical plane. — Jaeda DeWalt

The limits of our cognition are not defined by the limits of our language. — Elliot W. Eisner

Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us. — Cormac McCarthy