Majicman Notes

There is a tendency to think that displaced persons should count their blessings or be grateful for having reached new shores, for having been received as refugees or immigrants. Hagos’s images invite viewers to sit… Read more

There we stood, alone. Did anyone want to give in? [The crowd shouted “No.”] Were we down-hearted? [“No!”] The lights went out and the bombs came down. But every man, woman and child in the… Read more

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am… Read more

The secret of any great project is to keep it moving, keep it from losing momentum. William Zeckendorf Read more

Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you’re going to while away the years, it’s far better to live them with… Read more

For those reasons, our conglomerate will remain a collection of controlled and non-controlled businesses. Charlie and I will simply deploy your capital into whatever we believe makes the most sense, based on a company’s durable… Read more

1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of… Read more

We are most productive when we focus on a very small number of projects on which we can devote a large amount of attention. Albert Einstein Read more

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clark Sir Arthur C. Clarke was an engineer, futurist and humanist who… Read more

If anything is worth doing, it’s worth doing to excess … My whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out in people resources they didn’t know… Read more