"When companies get bigger they try to replicate their success. But they assume their magic came from process. They try to use processes to substitute content."
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"Oh you, unceasing sun, to me Your particles communicate The luminous essence of God, Are you our God? I do not know. Intoxicated, I say nought, Bewitched by the magic potion. I cannot differentiate Between my drunk and sober state."
"There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off."
"Boldness has power, magic and genius in it."
"Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning."
"Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders."
"Most of what you hear about entrepreneurshi p is all wrong. It's not magic; it's not mysterious; and it has nothing to do with genes. It's a discipline and, like any discipline, it can be learned."
"Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic."
"Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce."
"Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature."
"If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds."
"The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us."
"All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books."
"For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well."
"Yoko brought the walrus, there was magic in the air."
"To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world."
"Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence."
"I believe in the magic and authority of words."
"What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels."
"Effective magic is transcendent nature."