Majicman Notes

Trust requires an intelligent judgement of trustworthiness. So those who want others’ trust have to do two things. First, they have to be trustworthy, which requires competence, honesty and reliability. Second, they have to provide… Read more

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth. William Faulkner https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1949/faulkner/biographical/ Read more

To the uninitiated, poker is a game involving three elements: luck, calculation and deception. But professional poker players have told me that a fourth element just as important: controlling your emotions, or more often, failing… Read more

It is a passage about leaving traces, about trying desperately, in vain, to tie ourselves to life itself. It lays bare the flawed human impulse to endure. Writing is a way to salvage life, to… Read more

The history of free men is never written by chance but by their choice. Dwight Eisenhower Read more

The impossible attracts me, because everything possible has been done and the world didn’t change. The possible has been tried and failed. Now it’s time to try the impossible. Sun Ra (jazz musician) Read more

You get ideas when you ask yourself simple questions. The most important of the questions is just, ‘What if…?’” Neil Gaiman https://www.neilgaiman.com/ Read more

Consider music “the language of time,” music takes on a richer meaning — or, rather, it is stripped down to its elemental raw material — for without the arrow of time, without being able to… Read more

The funny thing about human relationships is that expressing love and care can be as difficult and painful as expressing hurt and frustration, based on how people are raised. Our families are where we first… Read more

Books can save your life, people don’t just read books for escape. We read to find new paths for ourselves. We think we are in this one-room house. Books help us realize we are in… Read more