“Difference is not something we need to solve. Difference is something we need to love. Difference is something we need to respect — because it is in the clash of difference that the great ideas emerge.”— Difference is not something we need to solve. Difference is something we need to love. Difference is something we need to respect
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We have created a society that gives us more access to comfort. We have the ability to push much further than we think is possible, but the brain wants us to rest to allow the body to recover.
— David BlaineIllusionist & Street Magician Known for Endurance Stunts & Television Specials
The way you eliminate fear is to approach your situation from every angle, almost as though it were a logic puzzle. I like to think of it as approaching like a tortoise, not like a hare.
— David BlaineIllusionist & Street Magician Known for Endurance Stunts & Television Specials
Endurance is mind over body. It's about tapping into something within us that allows us to push further than we ever thought possible, especially at our weakest moments.
— David BlaineIllusionist & Street Magician Known for Endurance Stunts & Television Specials
Humans often come together by believing in ideas that may only exist in our imaginations. We have an ability to imagine together, to merge our ideas as a collective, which can slowly move us toward a future once believed to be impossible. This is part of what changes us from being simple animals to a group that will soon travel to Mars and perhaps even further. To me that is magic.
— David BlaineIllusionist & Street Magician Known for Endurance Stunts & Television Specials
There's something beautiful, open and present about using the human voice. We've lost the dynamics of audio over the last 30 years because of compressed music formats, radio and different genres of music.
— Penn JilletteMagician, Illusionist & Half of Penn & Teller Duo
If you can be as open with your heart as possible, humans will feel that intimacy from any distance. Bob Dylan, even in a stadium of 20,000 people can choose a point to strip it down to a piano, and you feel it.
— Penn JilletteMagician, Illusionist & Half of Penn & Teller Duo
I'm 65 years old, and one of the things that amazes me is the number of people who work to get to a certain level of success in showbusiness, and then quit to go play golf?! There is nothing else I would want to do in this world.
— Penn JilletteMagician, Illusionist & Half of Penn & Teller Duo
When we were first able to make approximately what our fathers made by doing performance, we considered ourselves completely successful and had no ambition beyond that. If we were playing fairs and cruise ships, we were happy.
— Penn JilletteMagician, Illusionist & Half of Penn & Teller Duo
My interest is not whether something could dematerialize in my hand, but how people can be misled. You can this very dangerous thing- lying- and make it safe to play around with.
— Penn JilletteMagician, Illusionist & Half of Penn & Teller Duo
Magic is this incredibly weird bondage and discipline you make where you say to someone, 'do this thing to me that's morally wrong… you have my consent…' – once you give your consent, the morality changes.
— Penn JilletteMagician, Illusionist & Half of Penn & Teller Duo
You have to keep reaching, keep thinking about what the next-level is.
— Will.i.amGrammy-Winning Producer, Rapper & Innovator from Black Eyed Peas
You have to know who you are, be open-minded, and be ready to collaborate. You have to have thick-skin and be prepared to get your idea ripped apart.
— Will.i.amGrammy-Winning Producer, Rapper & Innovator from Black Eyed Peas
You have to take bullsh** and turn it into fertiliser.
— Will.i.amGrammy-Winning Producer, Rapper & Innovator from Black Eyed Peas
What I've learned about tech is that it's cold and robotic; you don't know any of the people who make the stuff you live on.
— Will.i.amGrammy-Winning Producer, Rapper & Innovator from Black Eyed Peas
'Brand,' is what journalists and industry-people say… we say culture movement. As artists we say culture! Movement! And analysts say brand. I don't know what a brand is, but I know what a freakin' movement is….
— Will.i.amGrammy-Winning Producer, Rapper & Innovator from Black Eyed Peas
Entrepreneurship is the relentless drive to carry-on, no matter what. Entrepreneurship is tolerance, focus and dedication. Entrepreneurship is this 'true north' belief that whatever this 'thing' is that you want to bring to culture, that you will see it through… and that you are the one here to usher it into existence.
— Will.i.amGrammy-Winning Producer, Rapper & Innovator from Black Eyed Peas