“Elegant in its simplicity and practicality, Lee has distilled many powerful leadership strategies into the lessons many of us learned as children. They are no less relevant to our working lives. At its core, Creating Magic is a collection of stories that reminds us to demonstrate care and respect for every member of the team and to focus our efforts not our ourselves but on the people we lead.” PeopleChildrenStoriesCarePowerfulEffortFocusMagicTeamLessonsMembersCreatingStrategySimplicityCoreCollectionsRelevantElegantPracticalityWorking Life Author:George Bodenheimer
“I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to this man who had been so influential to me, I began creating or constructing my own films on this so-called "magic" number of 92 ... but when I eventually made a film about John Cage and met him, I explained this to him, and he found it very amusing because there are only 90 stories on the two sides of the record, and I'd based three years of my filmic career on this mathematical error!” MenYearsMadeTwoStoriesFilmThreeFoundSidesMy OwnNumbersMistakeCareersRecordsMagicInformationMetsCreatingErrorsMathematicalThree YearsCagesInfluentialAmusingTwo SidesScrapHomageBad Mistake Author:Peter Greenaway
“In Chaos Magic , beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects. To fully realize this is to face a terrible freedom in which nothing is true and everything is permitted, which is to say that everything is possible, there are no certainties , and the consequences can be ghastly.” EndsFacesBeliefRealizingMagicEffectsTerribleCreatingConsequenceToolsChaosCertaintyGhastly Book:Liber Kaos Source: Liber Kaos
“I think one of the most interesting things about automation isn't on the practical side. I think it's about creating magic and wonder and moments of splendor.” ThinkingMomentsSidesInterestingWonderMagicCreatingPracticalsMost InterestingInteresting ThingsSplendorAutomation Author:Genevieve Bell
“Magic is a combination of art and science. It's an art because of the traditional parts of things, the graceful gestures, the sonorous invocations, the use of colour, sight, sound, all of these things make it very much an art form. Yet it is also a science as well because we expect something to come of what we do. Using and creating these almost dreamlike inner landscapes in which we can live, move, and have our being.” WellsArtUseMovingFormSoundMagicCreatingArt IsSightTraditionalLandscapeCombinationColourGesturesArt And ScienceInvocation Author:Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
“There are two magic acts I want to pull off when I write. One is creating a feeling that when you're inside a book, you believe everything you're reading even when you know it's not true. And the second is an extension of that, which is you know it's not true, you know it's not real, but you believe it anyway. And it's that believing of the story that isn't real that attracted me to writing and storytelling in general.” KnowsWantWritingBelieveTwoBookRealStoriesFeelingsReadingMagicCreatingStorytellingExtensionsTrue You Author:Markus Zusak
“Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.” InterestingMagicExampleCreatingMetaphorProse Author:Francesca Lia Block
“Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic.” WorldWritingFirstsBookMightGamesMagicReaderCreatingTasksLogicBoundariesDragonsWriting A BookDisbelief Author:R. A. Salvatore
“You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.” WritingIdeasEyeSongSilenceMagicTearsPaintingWindCreatingSongwritingClosestBlankSongwritersCanvasSinger SongwritersBlank CanvasPainting A Picture Author:Rodney Atkins
“I guess the most emotional part is when I have that moment when I end up writing something that I really, really love. So not only is there the emotional connection with the music that's being created, but there's also the magic of the fact that you're essentially creating something from nothing.” WritingEndsMomentsFactsMagicEmotionalCreatingConnectionsThat MomentCreating SomethingEmotional Connection Author:Moby
“The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic: There is whoever is writing it, and whoever is drawing it, and then there's whoever is reading it, because the really important things in comics are occurring in the panel gutters, they're occurring between panels as the person reading the comics is moving you through, is creating a film in their heads.” PeopleWritingPersonsImportantFilmMovingThreeReadingMagicInvolvedCreatingImportant ThingsDrawingComicGutters Author:Neil Gaiman
“Magic is a two-way process: you use it to change yourself and in return, it changes you. Letting yourself enter a magical reality is not about creating an enclave of magic beyond your everyday life, but of allowing magic in- allowing for the intrusion of the weird, the irrational, the things you can't explain, yet are undeniably real.” WayTwoRealUseRealityProcessMagicReturnCreatingEverydayAllowingIrrationalEveryday LifeTwo WaysIntrusionChange Yourself Author:Phil Hine
“Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it - how do you create something from nothing? Anyone who's creative understands that that's the magic, that's the alchemy.” DreamEyeHousePerfectCreativeMagicCreatingAlchemyPicnicsDream House Author:Billy Corgan
“It's hard: you get older, you have a career, the normal frustrations that come with what you do when you wear your heart on your sleeve and you try really heard. I was exhausted, and I couldn't quite see the magic of creating at that time. That's all. I couldn't get into it, and Andy [Kim] slowly resuscitated me, and that's how I made Darlings.” TryingHeartMadeHardCareersMagicHeardNormalCreatingFrustrationExhaustedDarlingSleevesKimHeart On Your Sleeve Author:Kevin Drew
“The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic. There's whoever's writing it and whoever's drawing it. And then there's whoever's reading it because they are creating the movement. They are creating the illusion of time passing.” PeopleWritingThreeReadingMagicMovementInvolvedCreatingIllusionDrawingPassingPassingsComicTime PassingTime PassesIllusion Of Time Author:Neil Gaiman