“So the laws of good driving forbade you to go off the magic ribbon except in extreme emergencies. You were ethically entitled to several inches of margin at the right-hand edge; and the man approaching you was entitled to an equal number of inches; which left a remainder of inches between the two projectiles as they shot by. It sounds risky as one tells it, but the heavens are run on the basis of similar calculations, and while collisions do happen, they leave time enough in between for universes to be formed, and successful careers conducted by men of affairs.” MenTwoEnoughHandsHappensRunningLawUniverseLeftHeavenSoundNumbersCareersSuccessfulMagicHe ManEqualShotsBasesAffairEdgesExtremesDrivingInchesEntitledEmergenciesMarginsCalculationsCollisionRibbonsSuccessful CareerProjectile Book:Oil! Source: Oil!
“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.” PeopleSciencePassionNextImaginationAbilityQualitySuccessfulToo MuchMagicMedicineIndispensableFind Me Book:Philosophical Writings of Peirce Source: Philosophical Writings of Peirce
“I always feel that there's no violence in a movie - it's not real, it's a magic trick. Nobody is really dying. In fact, the people that die in my movies have gone on to become extremely successful!” PeopleFeelsRealFactsDiesGoneSuccessfulViolenceMagicDyingTricksMagic Tricks Author:Eli Roth
“I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence? ... I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead” KnowsMenBookReadingSecretStudySuccessfulDoubtMagicInspireBirthTrainingDoctorsRaisesPatientGrantedHospitalsOne ManDeniedToo ShortRapidsDoctor WhoBook ReadingSecret To SuccessGood Doctors Author:Axel Munthe
“The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out.” FeelsImportantHappensSongSuccessfulMagicHappeningsMelodyIngredients Author:Paul McCartney