Psychology

Endurance stays with you across everything, if you do it one place, you can do it anywhere. You're able to sustain because you've already trained your brain to do that.

Illusionist & Street Magician Known for Endurance Stunts & Television Specials

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.

Illusionist & 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.

Illusionist & 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.

Illusionist & Street Magician Known for Endurance Stunts & Television Specials

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.

Magician, 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.

Magician, 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.

Magician, Illusionist & Half of Penn & Teller Duo

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.

Grammy-Winning Producer, Rapper & Innovator from Black Eyed Peas

It took me a long time to figure out that the sensation I was having was anxiety- it's a real, physical, feeling that manifests within you. It's so much more than just being 'in your head' it's your whole body.

Actor best known for Jurassic Park and The Piano films

An actor who isn't acting becomes a sort of non-person. If you're not acting, what are you?

Actor best known for Jurassic Park and The Piano films

There's also a danger in acting of identifying yourself as an actor. We have to try to identify ourselves as human beings first, and our jobs second. I'm Sam, I act sometimes… not I am Sam, I am an actor. What I do is separate to me.

Actor best known for Jurassic Park and The Piano films

Authenticity- for me- is incredibly important. It's easy to spot the difference between acting and authentic performance- even though it may seem a contradiction in terms. When you're acting, 10% of you needs to be conscious of what you're doing, and 90% lost in the moment.

Actor best known for Jurassic Park and The Piano films

Stories help us to develop cognitive flexibility, strengthen our epistemic muscles. It is an intellectual growth but also a spiritual one. It changes us deep inside. Stories rehumanize those who have been dehumanized.

Turkish-British novelist and author of "The Forty Rules of Love

That constant re-entry back into who we are if we're acting like someone, we're not is laborious and exhausting to do over and over.

Academy Award-Winning Actor Known for Dallas Buyers Club Role

When faced with the inevitable, get relative.

Academy Award-Winning Actor Known for Dallas Buyers Club Role

It's only when you look back that you can connect the dots to where we are right now. Looking back, I learned that it was those red and yellow lights that revealed those solar-powered green lights.

Academy Award-Winning Actor Known for Dallas Buyers Club Role