#magic

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#believing #happen #magic #make #you

One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#engineering #magic #man #supernatural #word

Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#apple #benefactor #blink #decided #did

I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#banks #bay #bay area #become #food

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#becoming #bittersweet #flowed #had #happiness

I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person. ↗

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

#another #because #believed #capability #could

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#hopelessness #magic #hope

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#glittering-eyes #hidden #magic #secrets #unlikely-places

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#difficulties #disappear #effect #magical #obstacles

If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even try in the first place. A moth confines its search to what has sense and value for it, what it needs, what is indispensable to its life... if I imagined that I wanted under all circumstances to get to the North Pole, then to achieve it I would have to desire it strongly enough that my whole being was ruled by it. But if I were to decide to will that the pastor should stop wearing his glasses, it would be useless. That would be making a game of it. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#magick #equality