"The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus, and know the method of procedure, that they are full-fledged mystifiers."

-- Harry Houdini

#Believe Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Facts Quotes

“A couple days before the stunts, if I'm doing something particularly dangerous, I will go over every worst-case scenario in my head, like this could happen, this could happen, this could happen, this could happen. I try to think about that to where it's ingrained in me.”
“I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.”
“Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.”
“Keep true to the rare music in your heart, to the marvelous and unique form that is and shall always be nothing else but you. Keep to that and you can do no wrong, which I realize is easier said than done.”
“The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”
“I don't judge people. I don't even judge people on 'The Voice.' I'm a coach. I'm there for constructive criticism and to aid and abet and discover new talent.”
“This is the present moment. Learn how to gobble it up without fear or guilt.”
“In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party”

Source : Franz Boas (1969). “Race and Democratic Society”, p.68, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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