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“In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor”

Important Form Imagination Ability Magic Factors Faculty Magician Esoteric Imaging

Author:Kenneth Grant

“Needless to say, under either system [socialism or fascism], the inequalities of income and standard of living are greater than anything possible under a free economy -- and a man's position is determined, not by his productive ability and achievement, but by political pull and force. Under both systems, sacrifice is invoked as a magic, omnipotent solution in any crisis -- and "the public good" is the altar on which victims are immolated.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“The American College of Sports Medicine found that the productivity of people after exercise was an average of 65 percent higher than those who did not exercise. If I have something that's really bothering me, so much that it almost hurts my head to try to sort it out, I always find the solution in a puddle of sweat! Intense exercise is like taking a magic pill that gives you the ability to solve problems like a superhero.”

People Ifs Giving Trying Problem Found Sports Hurt Ability Magic College Higher Exercise Solutions Percent Medicine Average Solve Productivity Intense Bother Sweat Superhero Pills Puddles

Author:Chalene Johnson

“From the very beginning, I studied acting, directing, lighting, dance and movement. I didn't rely on just the magic to take place. It's a shame that a lot of magicians just rely on the trick itself and they have no other abilities. They get away with the wonder factor, and I don't think that's enough. It's great, but it's not enough.”

Thinking Enough Ability Acting Wonder Magic Movement Shame Tricks Factors Rely Get Away Magician Lighting

Author:David Copperfield

“Songwriting ability is a gift. After a while, you come to realize, "I've really been blessed. I can write these things and it makes me happy, and it makes millions of people happy." It's an obligation, it's bigger than you. It's the only true magic I know. It's not pulling a rabbit out of a hat; it's real. It's your soul floating out to theirs.”

People Knows Writing I Can Real Soul Realizing Ability Millions Magic Bigger Blessed Obligation Your Soul Hats Songwriting Pulling Floating Rabbits Make Me Happy

Author:Tom Petty

“Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.”

Has Beens Young Easy Ability Magic Not Sure

Author:David Copperfield

“It is not too much to say that next after the passion to learn there is no quality so indispensable to the successful prosecutionof science as imagination. Find me a people whose early medicine is not mixed up with magic and incantations, and I will find you a people devoid of all scientific ability.”

People Science Passion Next Imagination Ability Quality Successful Too Much Magic Medicine Indispensable Find Me

Book:Philosophical Writings of Peirce

Source: Philosophical Writings of Peirce

“I was terrified by this idea that I would lose the ability to enjoy and appreciate the sunset without having my camera on me, without tweeting it to my friends. It felt like technology should enable magic, not kill it.”

Should Ideas Felt Enjoy Loses Ability Technology Magic My Friends Appreciate Cameras Sunset Terrified

Author:Shilo Shiv Suleman

“Magic, indeed, is all around us, in stones, flowers, stars, the dawn wind and the sunset cloud; all we need is the ability to see and understand.”

Needs Stars Ability Magic Wind Flower Stones Clouds Dawn Sunset Ability To See

Book:Natural Magic

Source: Natural Magic

“I want to try to apply my abilities sometimes to make families happy, so I have to make movies at a venue that are not gratuitously violent, that are not using bullets and bloodshed, but are using things like magic and fantasy and enchantment and the imagination. To me that's just all positive stuff. But I am eclectic and I still like to make movies for the midnight audience as well.”

Want Trying Wells Stills Sometimes Stuff Imagination Ability Fantasy Audience Magic Violent Bullets Midnight Enchantment Venues Bloodshed Eclectic

Author:Nicolas Cage

“There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell me how to become a poet. Tell me what to do." . . . What makes you a poet is a gift for language, an ability to see into the heart of things, and an ability to deal with important unconscious material. When all these things come together, you're a poet. But there isn't one little gimmick that makes you a poet. There isn't any formula for it.”

Ifs Thinking Way Heart Littles Important Together Language Ability Deals Magic Poet Materials Tendencies Unconscious Formulas Ability To See Gimmicks

Author:Erica Jong