Alexander Herrmann quotes

“I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, Don't!”
-- Alexander Herrmann

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“The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous.”
-- Alexander Herrmann

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“I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.”

“An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.”

“She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.”

“It is always the novice who exaggerates.”

“I'm all for apprenticeships, but this is no time for a novice.”

“Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.”

“What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.”

Source : "The Fifth Blade" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2009.

“"Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual- and after all, wha is an individual? ". . . ." We can make a new one with the greatest of ease- as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself."”

“It was probably right after I made my comeback - after retiring post-2008 Olympics - when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective.”

“No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.”

Source : "Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose". Book by B. W. Powe, 2007.