Americans Are A Lot More Open, Of Course. There's Something More Declamatory In The Way You Express Emotions. It's A Stereotype But It's True. British People Can Appear Repressed In Expressing Emotions. Not Very Good At Self-evaluating, Or Affirming Situations, Touching, Anything Like That.
To Most Magicians, Cards Themselves Are Marvels...for One Thing, They Feel Special In Your Hand. Touching Them, Holding Them, Shuffling - The Whole Process Is Almost Poetic. If You're In A Room Full Of Magicians And Someone Just Mentions The Word Cards, Within Seconds, Everyone Is Digging Into Their Pockets And Pulling Out A Deck Of Cards. It's One Of The Most Amazing Feelings Ever.
The Thing That Makes My Generation The Greatest Is Our Ability To Hang Out. We're Spectacular At It. If You Take Somebody From My Generation And Sit Them On A Couch And Bring Them Food And Plumbing, They'll Sit There And Talk To You About Anything You Want Until The Day You Die.
We Innovate By Starting With The Customer And Working Backwards. That Becomes The Touchstone For How We Invent.
It's A Strange Thing That Every Human Being Has A Sort Of Dignity Or Wholeness In Him, And Out Of That Develops Relationships To Other Human Beings, Tensions, Misunderstandings, Tenderness, Coming In Contact, Touching And Being Touched, The Cutting Off Of A Contact And What Happens Then.
Thou, Everlasting Strength, Hast Set Thyself Forth To Bear Our Burdens. May We Bear Thy Cross, And Bearing That; Find There Is Nothing Else To Bear; And Touching That Cross, Find That Instead Of Taking Away Our Strength, It Adds Thereto. Give Us Faith For Darkness, For Trouble, For Sorrow, For Bereavement, For Disappointment; Give Us A Faith That Will Abide Though The Earth Itself Should Pass Away--a Faith For Living, A Faith For Dying.
If You'd Rather Live Surrounded By Pristine Objects Than By The Traces Of Happy Memories, Stay Focused On Tangible Things. Otherwise, Stop Fixating On Stuff You Can Touch And Start Caring About Stuff That Touches You.
