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�Let art conceal art� - T. Nelson Downs (Art of Magic)

�Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are �getting away with it,� when they are in fact fortunate enough to have a polite audience.� - Dai Vernon

�Of what one can�t make sense of, one may make art.� - John Barth

�Art is, in fact, a magic incantation.� - Nikos Kazantzakis

�Technique in only a telephone wire. What�s important is the message going through it.� - Kent Nagono

�Comedy born of bewilderment is the only comedy that should be in magic.� - Dai Vernon

�That which does not add, detracts.� - Aristotle

�Give a man a fish you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.� - Chinese proverb

�A good general chooses his battlefield.� - Slydini

�Misdirect ALL the time.� - Fred Kaps

�Do everything in life with a flourish.� - Anon

�A fundamental understanding of the human psyche is the essential key to successful magic.� - Robert Houdin

�Art communicates the inexpressible.� - Goethe

�The human hand is a miracle of artistic skill, and within each lies the gift of personal style.� - Anon

�Good timing is invisible. Bad timing sticks out a mile.� - Corinda

�A bad craftsman always blames his tools.� - Anon

�No magician will be a good magician if he accepts any teacher other than the audience.� - Wolff Baron von Keyerlingk

�You can never overtake someone in whose footsteps you follow.� - Hitchcock

�Sometimes you just have to be an asshole to get the job done right.� - James Cameron

�Success in magic�Practice, Relfection, and Love.� - Ascanio

�Do you like card tricks?� asked the man.
�No,� he replied.
He showed him five. � Ricky Jay (attributed)

�The worst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fellow humans.� - Roberto Giobbi

�Methods may vary, but principles never change.� � RB

�Never tip your hand too early in a poker game, you are guaranteed to lose.� - Poker saying

�The who can do one trick well, in my mind, a better conjurer than the man who meanders through half a dozen tricks and leaves his auidience wondering what he is supposed to have done.� - David Devant

�Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty.� - Robert Houdin

�The personality must be bigger than the prop.� - Blackstone

�Lead them down the garden path, and then turn the hoses on them.� - Doc Eason

�Never tell the auidience how good you are, they will soon find out for themselves.� - Houdini

�Things should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.� - Einstein

�Don�t run when your not being chased.� - Dai Vernon

�To believe a think impossible is to make it so.� - French proverb

�It�s not what we have, but what we are, that makes the poverty or richness of our life.� - Phillips Brooks

�To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.� - Anatole France

�The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.� - Walter Bagehot

�The man who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the man doing it.� - Chinese proverb

�Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism. The way you play it is free will.� - Jawaharlal Nehr

�People who don�t have nightmares don�t have dreams.� - Rober Paul Smith

�First reckon, then risk.� - Helmuth von Molte

�Doubt is healthy, it tests ones convictions.� - Anon

�Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were done.� - Louis Brandeis

�Never apologize for showing feeling, when you do you apologize for truth.� - Benjamin Distaeli

�Enthusiasm is the one necessary ingredient in doing good work.� - Elbert Hubbard

�Why not go out on a limb? Isn�t that were the food is?� - Frank Scully

�No man is the whole of himself. His friends are the rest of him.� - Good Life Almanac

�It is better for a man to honor his profession than to be honored by it.� - Robert Houdin

�Fortune favors the brave.� - Terence

�Knowledge comes by talking things apart, but wisdom comes by putting things together.� - Elbert Hubbard

�The very best method for atrick is the easiest method, and it is the method that should be used.� - Hugard and Brau

�Make them think they�ve been fooled by a gentlemen.� - Howard Thurston

�Follow your own bent, no matter what people say.� - Karl Marx

�The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.� - Einstein

�How many a man has thrown his hands up at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.� - Elbert Hubbard

�A magic trick is like a play, carefully built, detail by detail. It is devised so that everything is so obviously fair that the one or two small points which depend the success of the deception may be slid over without attracting any attention.� - John Mulholland

�There is nothing worse than good magic at the wrong time.� - David Roth

�Never apologize, it�s all part of the trick.� - Harry Lorayne

�You can sheer the sheep as many times as you want, but you can only slaughter them once.� - Poker saying

�Every man I meet is my superior is some way. In that, I learn of him.� - Emerson

�Arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.� - Henry Overstreet

�Great things cannot be bought for small sums.� - Seneca 4 B.C.

�If I give you a dollar and you give me dollar, we each still have a dollar; but let me give you an idea, and you give me an idea, then we each of two ideas.� - Anon

�You just tell �em the truth! Boy, that�ll fool �em.� - Elbert Hubbard

�Be yourself.� - Dai Vernon

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