Keith Barry quotes

“I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.”
-- Keith Barry

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“Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex.”
-- Keith Barry

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“By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains.”
-- Keith Barry

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“I like pushing the envelope. I like pushing myself and the audience, whether it's a TV show or live. I like to throw people over the edge of the cliff and scare the wits out of them, but then pull them back and make them safe.”
-- Keith Barry

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“Studying neuro-linguistic programming is what teaches you how to implant and extract thoughts. Mixing psychology, hypnotism and magic somewhat goes into this area called mentalism, which is what I mostly do. It’s magic of the mind.”
-- Keith Barry

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“Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn’t want you to look at my right hand then I don’t look at it.”
-- Keith Barry

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“TWINS by Nefesch is a fantastic piece of truly impromptu mentalism which will only be performed by fearless performers. Highly recommended!”
-- Keith Barry

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“I'm going to show you all how easy it is to manipulate the human mind once you know how.”
-- Keith Barry

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“A lot of the audience know that magic tricks are largely sleight of hand stuff, but they're intrigued by the mind stuff. They understand some of the principles behind it . . . but they're confused by how it's all mixed together onstage, which is good for me.”
-- Keith Barry

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“I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers

“Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.”

“Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.”

Source : "First Manifesto of Surrealism". Book by Andre Breton, 1924.

“Obviously, not everybody who dies becomes a ghost, otherwise those who are psychic would be aware of shouldering through deep crowds of assorted shades every time they moved.”

“The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.”

“The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.”

“Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.”

“Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?”

“Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them”

Source : A.J Cronin (1942). “the Keys of the Kingdom”